Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Lauren Bacall, R. I. P.

EW.com: She looked so terrific and strong for such a long time that it was easy to imagine Lauren Bacall might just hang around forever. And who wouldn’t want her to, for the pleasure of hearing her firing off smart, unvarnished remarks about old Hollywood in that husky voice? But the end came at last on Tuesday, when the 89-year-old actress died from a stroke at her home, according to a report on TMZ. The Humphrey Bogart Estate followed with this tweet: “With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall.”

8 comments:

Deb said...

One of the very last links to the Golden Age...

Unknown said...

One of the true greats, at least from my perspective.

Anonymous said...

We saw her on stage once, in 2000. She was great.


Jeff

George said...

Lauren Bacall was a great actress and one of my favorites.

Rick Robinson said...

Makes me want to re-watch all the Bacall-Bogie films.

Tom Johnson said...

A great lady, and a great actress. So many great movies. A true giant in the cenema.

Anonymous said...

She got to say the single greatest line in all of moviedom. At least I thought so the first time I heard it. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow". One of these guys wrote it, but she said the hell out of it.

Ernest Hemingway (novel)
Jules Furthman(screen play
William Faulkner(screen play)
or
Cleve F. Adams (uncredited)
Whitman Chambers (uncredited)

Stilwell

Unknown said...

I didn't know about the uncredited guys. I've always liked the idea that Faulkner worked on that script, though.