Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)

Subject: Obit: Lauren Bacall
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Aug 14 - 08:07 PM

What the hell? An amazing actress....one of the few left of an amazing age of movies.


Lauren Bacall

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Aug 14 - 08:50 PM

Between "Nanoo nanoo" and "If you want anything...just whistle...." this has been a rough week!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Aug 14 - 11:24 PM

Born the same year as my mother -- who just celebrated her 90th. It's long and well-lived lives for them both... Bacall was incomparable.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 01:31 AM

What a dame! She was still acting in recent years - I heard her in voice overs and animated films. Rest in Peace.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 03:00 AM

Beautiful lady. RIP Miss Bacall.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 07:29 AM

I saw her on the stage in London, playing the Margot Channing role that Bette Davis had made famous in All About Eve ("Fasten your seat belts - it's going to be a bumpy night"). This was the musical version, re-named Applause, and Bacall was simply brilliant. I'm not surprised that she won the Best Performance award when she played it on Broadway.

The most impressive part was actually her curtain call, which brought the house down. She changed clothes specifically for it, into an elegant black evening dress - nothing to do with the period costumes she'd been wearing as Margot - and entered from upstage centre instead of the side as the others had done. She then processed all the way down to the footlights like a model on a catwalk, as Miss Bacall herself, greeting us for the first time that night. Words don't describe the electrifying effect it had on the audience. We all knew we were seeing a legend in the flesh, which is the hallmark of true star power. What a classy lady.

Betty and Bogie, a match made in Heaven. Literally, now.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: bobad
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 08:47 AM

Interesting factoid:

Born Betty Joan Perske in New York, daughter of Jewish immigrants was a first cousin to Shimon Peres.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 12:00 PM

A great lady in addition to being a great actress.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 13 Aug 14 - 05:52 PM

A profile from Vanity Fair, March 2011:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/03/lauren-bacall-201103

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 03:53 PM

Great actress. She was a seemingly brave dame, unafraid to allow herself to look her age. Many actors (both sexes) ought to follow her example, instead of becoming old cartoons of their younger selves.

Subject: Obit: Lauren Bacall
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 02:57 AM

Seemingly unnoticed here in the shock of Robin Williams' passing, the lovely and talented Lauren Bacall died a few days ago, in her late 80s.
Thanks for those memories too, Lauren.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:41 PM

Yes, I was unplugged and on vacation but caught this one out of the corner of my eye going past someplace with CNN on... very sorry, loved her very much. And she loved Bogie. Amazing woman.