Word: lauren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...
...Anna Lucasta is more in demand in Hollywood than any play since Life with Father. He has been offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...
...Lauren ("The Look") Bacall showed Hollywood friends a new diamond bracelet with a small whistle attached. Said the inscription: "If you want anything - just whistle- H. Bogart." Adolf Hitler got a31-line biography in the 1945 British Who's Who - complete with telephone number (Berlin...
Minus one ingredient, "To Have and Have Not" would be another and a tiresome "Casablanca"--replete with an opiate air of international intrigue, whispering French restaurant proprietors, and dusky piano--but spicy Lauren Bacall provides the condiment to make the film a tasty, if not tasteful, Bogartian dish...
Bogart and Becall are a team destined for a "two-hour wait for seats, please." When Lauren oozes out "I'm hard to get, Steve--all you have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...