– There are no real stars today, said the aging diva Lauren Bacall with intense eyes, the smoke billowing in hand and hoarse voice to the undersigned seven years ago.
The interview took place in Haugesund, of all places. Together with two colleagues I met the legend ahead of Amanda show. Bacall had a small but pivotal role in the Norwegian film “Wide Blue Yonder”; a film that created bruduljer years, and that just was pre-recorded.
For someone who still think that cooperation between Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in films like “The Big Sleep”, “The Dark Passage” and ” Key Largo »belongs to the raw gems in film history, was meeting with Bacall happy hours happening. She was 82 years, full of life, fresco-mouthed, sharp remark. Then, as always otherwise, she flagged their support for Democrats in the United States, and so like Hillary Clinton as president. Divataktene was there too. Bacall had little sense of today’s Hollywood stars and noted that there simply are no stars today. As she bluntly stated:
– Bogie is still number one among actors. He and the others; Spencer Tracy, James Cagney and Clark Gable had a significant background; they came from the theater stage!
Therefore Bacall a fashion icon
Bogie & amp; Bacall were inseparable. They met while filming “To have and not Have” in 1944, Bacall was not turned 20, Humphrey Bogart was 45 They married in 1945, and the age difference gave Bacall the nickname “Baby.” The couple became one of the all-time most iconic filmpar. They were central to a game circuit consisting of actors, writers, authors and artists. With Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davies Jr. Peter Lawford and Dean Martin were the part of The Rat Pack, which Bacall happily recounted.
– We started the Rat Pack, along with, among others, Frank Sinatra. Bogie was president, and Frank took care of the press, mostly because he was always at odds with the media. The whole thing was about having fun, partying, drinking and getting the press to wonder what on earth we were doing, trusted Bacall with raucous laughter.
Bacall entered the silver screen and the camera and the world’s favorite; a long-legged, beautiful young woman with high cheekbones, beguiling eyes and sensual voice. Her radiance from the canvas was almost magnetic, she was mysterious and close at the same time. Postwar hunger for the glitz and glamor of the Hollywood dream factory was great, and the duo Bogie & amp; Bacall delivered goods from both canvas and as a couple. Bacall was devastated when Bogart died of cancer in 1957, she married albeit again, and marriage with actor Jason Robards lasted from 1961 to 1969, but in all subsequent years is the life with Bogart she was talking about.
Bacall was still far more than “chick” to Bogie. She did theater on Broadway to its arena, while she continued her cinematic career. She was a fearless woman of Jewish origin from New York, and showed early political interest, including by highlighting the clear opposition to McCarthy-ism.
In 2003, she starred in Lars von Trier’s “Dogville”. And in 2007 found herself thus in Haugesund, where she clearly marked that unless the Norwegian film guys got their money for “Wide Blue Yonder,” so she would stop recording. Basta.
The then 82 year old gorgeous actress was “still going strong”:
– This is my job, I will be on until I fall down and it should preferably not happen here in Haugesund, assured lady. And added with indignation:
– How in the world can you all the way live with all this rain here in the country. Everything’s wet all the time
Did the crisp, elegant Jewish New Yorker, with Polish-Romanian origin.
BORGHILD Maaland
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