Word: lauren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARPER. As a private eye focused on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman revives the Bogart tradition in lively style, with seedy-to-sumptuous local color supplied by Julie Harris, Arthur Hill and Lauren Bacall...
...promising. Harper is unobtrusively photographed--nothing fancy and nothing less than competent; it is also well paced and acted. The pacing is largely a consequence of the tight cutting, and the acting is traceable to the actors, a thoroughly professional lot who go their alphabetical ups and downs from Lauren Bacall to Shelley Winters...
Either Miss Bacall's part was slowly edited down to its present size, or else she was convinced by the proverbial agent's line about how you're the one they'll notice. Whichever, Lauren Bacall deserved a better fate...
HARPER. A bleary private eye (Paul Newman) seems to view the world through the bottom of his drinking glass much as Bogart used to do, but Director Jack Smight revives a grand old tradition in slick '60s style. Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Lauren Bacall are among the beautiful-but-damned folk at hand...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...