"a visit to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1945. It was there that Bacall's press agent, chief of publicity at Warner Bros. Charlie Enfield, asked the 20-year-old Bacall to sit on the piano while U.S. Vice President Harry S. Truman played. After ""To Have and Have Not"", Bacall was seen opposite Charles Boyer in ""Confidential Agent"" (1945), which was poorly received by critics. By her own estimation, it could have caused considerable damage to her career, had her performance as the mysterious, acid-tongued Vivian Rutledge in Hawks's film noir ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), co-starring Bogart,"
"you a damn thing."" Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall (, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, ""in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures"". Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in ""To Have and Have"
"Lauren Bacall on screen and stage American actress Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) had an extensive career in films, television shows, and plays. She was one of the leading ladies during the Golden Age of Hollywood along with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. Bacall started her career as a teenage fashion model when she appeared on the cover of ""Harper's Bazaar"" and was discovered by Howard Hawks' wife Nancy. As she naturally had a high-pitched and nasal voice, she received lessons to help deepen it and was required to shout verses by Shakespeare for hours every day as part"
"including and following the revisions. Because of the contributions from both Hemingway and Faulkner, the film represents the only film story on which two winners of the Nobel Prize of Literature worked. Filming began on February 29, 1944 as Faulkner worked on the script, ending on May 10. The film released nationally on October 11, 1944. Audience reception of the film was generally good, with most film critics claiming the film was a remake of ""Casablanca"" (1942). These reviews were mixed, either praising or condemning the film in comparison to ""Casablanca"". Critics specifically mentioned Lauren Bacall's performance or the chemistry"
"in 1945 was mixed yet often unflattering. Firstly, early publicity and much of the initial reaction to the film centered around Lauren Bacall, either praising her or criticizing her part in the film as merely as a gimmick for attention from the press. Other critics found the film to be betraying Hemingway's novel due to only the first fifteen minutes of the film bearing resemblance to the novel. Finally, Americans were preoccupied with World War II and had little interest in a hero (Bogart) whom consistently rejected commitment and whose only interest in France's cause was financial, to help himself"
"on 15 October 1937 to a first edition print-run of approximately 10,000 copies. Cosmopolitan Magazine published a section of the novel as ""One Trip Across"" in 1934; Esquire Magazine published a section as ""The Tradesman's Return"" in 1936. The novel was adapted into a 1944 film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film, directed by Howard Hawks, changed the story's setting from Key West to Martinique under the Vichy regime, and made significant alterations to the plot, including getting rid of Hemingway's Marxist overtones, and turning the story into a romantic thriller centering on the sparks going on between"
"performed on Broadway in the plays ""Cactus Flower"" in 1965 and The Visit in 1995 and musicals such as ""Applause"" in 1970, ""Woman of the Year"" in 1981 and ""The Visit"" in 1995. For her roles in ""Applause"" and ""Woman of the Year"", she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Lauren Bacall on screen and stage American actress Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) had an extensive career in films, television shows, and plays. She was one of the leading ladies during the Golden Age of Hollywood along with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. Bacall started"
"(Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall)"" (1946) fetched $5.3 million at Christie's New York, setting an auction record for the artist. The jewel-like box, with images of Bacall on blue background, was inspired by ""To Have and Have Not"", a film starring Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and film maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating"
"in the films ""All I Want for Christmas"" (1991), ""Prêt-à-Porter"" (1994), ""The Mirror Has Two Faces"" (1996), ""My Fellow Americans"" (1996), ""Diamonds"" (1999), ""Dogville"" (2003), ""Eve"" (2008) and ""The Forger"" (2012). For her role as Hannah Morgan in ""The Mirror Has Two Faces"", Bacall won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award. Her television work included appearances on ""Mr. Broadway"" (1964), ""Chicago Hope"" (1998), and ""The Rockford Files"" (1979), as well as providing the voice of Evelyn on the animated series ""Family Guy"" (2014). Bacall also"
"early great days with Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks 35 years ago"" and ""Variety"" observing, ""Lauren Bacall makes the film [from a novel by Bob Randall] work with a solid performance as a stage star pursued by a psychotic fan whose adoration turns to hatred. To be sure, the part doesn't test the broadest range of Bacall's abilities, but she and director Edward Bianchi achieve the essential element: They make the audience care what happens to her."" Bacall also was featured in Robert Altman's ""Health"" (1980) and Michael Winner's ""Appointment with Death"" (1988). In 1990, she had a small role"
"The Gift of Love The Gift of Love is a 1958 DeLuxe Color in CinemaScope film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. The film's screenplay was based on the short story ""The Little Horse"" by Nelia Gardner White, originally published in a 1944 issue of ""Good Housekeeping"", and previously made into the film ""Sentimental Journey"" (1946), with John Payne and Maureen O'Hara. A brilliant scientist, Bill Beck (Stack), ends up happily married to Julie (Lauren Bacall), his doctor's receptionist. Five years after their wedding, the same doctor treats Julie for a heart condition that she"
"between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on screen. Bogart and Bacall began an off-screen relationship during production and married in 1945, after the film's release. ""To Have and Have Not"" was one of the top thirty grossing films in 1944 and it received an award from the National Board of Review. In the summer of 1940, world-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) operates a small fishing-boat, the ""Queen Conch"", in Fort-de-France, on the French colony of Martinique. It is not long since the fall of France and the island is controlled by pro-German Vichy France. Harry makes a modest living chartering"
"the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, which gave him a special scholarship. One of his classmates was Betty Joan Perske (later known as Lauren Bacall), who would play an important role in launching his film career. Bacall wrote that she ""had a wild crush on Kirk,"" and they dated casually. Another classmate, and a friend of Bacall's, was aspiring actress Diana Dill, who would later become Douglas's first wife. During their time together, Bacall learned Douglas had no money, and that he once spent the night in jail since he had no place to sleep. She"
"Lauren Bacall, 1948). In his obituary, Allen Eyles notes two 1946 films as representative of Fehr's work, ""Many of his films were routine, but ""A Stolen Life"" (1946) had the visual intricacy of Bette Davis playing the dual role of two sisters, initially on screen at the same time, and ""Humoresque"" (also 1946) presented John Garfield as an outstanding violinist, dubbed by Isaac Stern. Garfield had to be carefully filmed and edited as he couldn't play a note. He kept his arms behind his back in close-ups while a member of the studio orchestra perched on each side of him,"
"Arena Bell, Diane Ladd, Jane Campion, Anne Archer, Carrie Fisher and Irena Medavoy, among others. The night of her tribute, Lauren Bacall, an iconic cinema legend said she was moved to tears by her tribute by the heartfelt remarks made her three children., (Sam Robards, Leslie Bogart, Sam Bogart). In 1993, WIN held its first awards ceremony honoring Tichi Wilkerson Kassel with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Tichi was the first female publisher of ""The Hollywood Reporter"" and co-founder of Women In Film. Her friend Charles Champlin (a former ""Los Angeles Times"" arts editor and film critic) presented her award. Film"
"in ""Misery"", which starred Kathy Bates and James Caan. In 1997, Bacall was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in ""The Mirror Has Two Faces"" (1996), her first nomination after a career span of more than fifty years. Bacall had already won a Golden Globe and was widely expected to win the Oscar, but lost in an upset to Juliette Binoche for ""The English Patient"". Bacall received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and in 1999, she was voted one of the 25 most significant female movie stars in history by the American Film Institute."
"Harry Warner saw, and subsequently asked Bacall that she come to Hollywood for a screen test. As a result, Bacall was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). Dahl-Wolfe also photographed: Tallulah Bankhead, Spencer Tracy, Eudora Welty, Paul Robeson, Bette Davis, and others. The documentary took over ten years to complete and features the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews. The film has been shown on selected PBS television stations and was the first original production of the new digital channel: and was screened at the Bel Air Film Festival. Louise"
"and Have Not"" (1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation. After ""The Jazz Singer"" was released in 1927, Warner Bros. gained huge success and were able to acquire their own string of movie theaters, after purchasing Stanley Theaters and First National Productions in 1928. MGM had also owned the"
"in the film noir genre with appearances with Humphrey Bogart in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), ""Dark Passage"" (1947), and ""Key Largo"" (1948), and starred in the romantic comedies ""How to Marry a Millionaire"" (1953), with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, as well as ""Designing Woman"" (1957), with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film, ""The Shootist"" (1976), by Wayne's personal request. Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for ""Applause"" (1970) and ""Woman of the Year"" (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance"
"""Miss Bacall – generates quite a lot of pressure as a sharp-eyed, knows-what-she-wants girl"", wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times of her performance. And, in 1948, she was in John Huston's melodramatic suspense film ""Key Largo"" with Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. In the film, according to film critic Jessica Kiang, ""Bacall brings an edge of ambivalence and independence to the role that makes her character much more interesting than was written"". Bacall turned down scripts she did not find interesting, and thereby earned a reputation for being difficult. Despite this, she further solidified her star status in"
"voice may well make Lauren Bacall sound like a mezzo soprano."" When the most prominent critic of the era, Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"", gave a bad review of ""You Came Along"" (1945), Scott's film debut, she recalled, ""Being very young and naïve at the time, I didn't know you weren't supposed to do such things, so I called him up and complained. I told him how hard everyone worked to make such a beautiful movie, and I couldn't understand how he could be so cruel. I must say he took it awfully well, and was very kind"
"Storm Warning (1951 film) Storm Warning is a 1951 American film noir thriller directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day and Steve Cochran. Lauren Bacall was originally cast in the part eventually played by Rogers. Bacall turned it down and was put on suspension by Warner Bros. for her defiance. Marsha Mitchell (Ginger Rogers), a traveling dress model, stops in the town of Rockpoint to see her newlywed sister, Lucy Rice (Doris Day). Within minutes of entering the town she notices unusual behavior by the townsfolk, such as dozens of people closing up shop and"
"in ""Watch on the Rhine"". The film vaulted Bogart from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally overtaking James Cagney. By 1946 he'd more than doubled his annual salary to over $460,000, making him the highest-paid actor in the world. Between 1943 and 1944, Bogart went on the United Service Organizations and War Bond tours accompanied by Methot, enduring arduous travels to Italy and North Africa, including Casablanca. Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. The movie has many similarities with ""Casablanca""—the same enemies, the"
"Rank which were bought for distribution in the US by 20th Century Fox. Lauren Bacall called it a ""good little movie ... with a stupid title"" (referring to the US title, ""Flame Over India""). BAFTA Award nominations at the 13th British Academy Film Awards (1960): The United States copyright on the film's ""Flame Over India"" release version has lapsed into the public domain. North West Frontier (film) North West Frontier (USA: Flame Over India; Australia: Empress of India) is a 1959 British adventure film starring Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White and I. S. Johar. The Cinemascope film,"
"Warner Bros. wanted to cast the then much better known Edward G. Robinson for the film adaptation; however Leslie Howard, who played the protagonist in both the play and the film, insisted on Bogart being given the part. His breakthrough came in 1941 when his performances in ""High Sierra"" and ""The Maltese Falcon"" made him a star. His first true romantic lead role came in 1942's ""Casablanca"", breaking his typecasting as a gangster. He and Lauren Bacall starred together in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). After they married, she also played his love interest in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946),"
"to 1952, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall participated in a weekly, half-hour radio adventure series called ""Bold Venture"", intended to be a spin-off of ""To Have and Have Not"". ""Bacall to Arms"", is a 1946 Looney Tunes short, spoofing scenes from ""To Have and Have Not"", and featuring ""Bogey Gocart"" and ""Laurie Becool"". It is included as a Special Feature on the DVD release of ""To Have and Have Not"". Notes Bibliography To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel"
"and Lauren Bacall. The film version follows the main character, Dr. Helen Gurley Brown (Wood), who is based loosely on Brown, through several comedic situations resulting from the publication of her book ""Sex and the Single Girl"". Betty Abbott, then the first female city council member of Omaha, Nebraska, went to City Hall on December 30, 1975, in a sweater that read, ""Omaha City Council. Six and the Single Girl,"" a reference to the book. Sex and the Single Girl Sex and the Single Girl is a 1962 non-fiction book by American writer Helen Gurley Brown, written as an advice"
"1938, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO, in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS, in Chicago, and WLW, in Cincinnati. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, the Williams Brothers sang with Bing Crosby on his 1944 hit record ""Swinging on a Star"". They appeared in four musical films: ""Janie"" (1944), ""Kansas City Kitty"" (1944), ""Something in the Wind"" (1947) and ""Ladies' Man"" (1947). A persistent myth is that as a teenager the future singing star dubbed the singing for Lauren Bacall in the 1944 feature film ""To Have and Have Not"". According to authoritative"
"It is believed that Lauren Bacall was the perfect woman for Hawks. In Keith's book it states ""Howard had been working on this formula woman for years in his films. Rather, it was that, until he met me, the woman of his dreams was only in his head. And until Howard got to Betty Bacall, there hadn’t been an actress to make that dream come alive on screen."" Hawks' first film, ""A Girl in Every Port"", exhibited the start of the female lead's formula, in which Louise Brooks was directed as the very first Hawksian Woman . A later example"
"branching out into other commodities; his mother was a librarian. Peres had a younger brother, Gershon. He was related the American film star Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske), and they were described as first cousins, but Peres said, ""In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family... but I'm not exactly sure what our relation is... It was she who later said that she was my cousin;"
"album ""Big City Rhythms. This song should not be confused with the Carolyn Leigh/Phillip Springer composition ""(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know"", which was first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1956. How Little We Know ""How Little We Know"" is a song written by written by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer for the 1944 film ""To Have and Have Not"", where it is performed by the character ""Slim"" played by Lauren Bacall. A young Andy Williams recorded the song for the film as a possible alternative track to dub Bacall's low voice. Bacall said they used her singing."
"more recently played small supporting roles in a long string of B movies. For this film she dyed her hair platinum blonde in order to shed her ""nice girl"" image in portraying the obsessive Marylee Hadley. Her Oscar-winning performance finally gave her cachet in the film industry. Sirk and cinematographer Russell Metty worked together six times prior to this film. He helped perfect the light and color effects associated with Sirk's films. Lauren Bacall, whose film career was foundering, accepted the relatively non-flashy role of Lucy Moore at the behest of her husband Humphrey Bogart. At the same time she"
"The Hour Before the Dawn The Hour Before the Dawn is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Frank Tuttle starring Franchot Tone and Veronica Lake. It was based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is often rumored that this film may have led to the decline of Lake's career. She was at her peak at the time of production, with films such as ""Sullivan's Travels"", ""This Gun for Hire"", ""The Glass Key"", ""I Married a Witch"" and ""So Proudly We Hail!"" all having been big box office successes for her and Paramount. After this film was"