she always looked better in black and white
LA Times picture - Lauren Bacall
her most famous clip here, in her first ever movie appearance (with future husband Humphrey Bogart), from Howard Hawks' version of the Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"
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Hawks said his wife spotted Bacall on the cover of "Harper's Bazzar" and decided that face was ready-made for the screen. But naturally he worried what she sounded like, he knew pretty teen gals like this ya want for movie roles frequently had a grating high pitched talk. When he heard her voice for that first time, he nearly fell out of his chair and quickly informed her "you are doing a screen test for me right now!"
The story is Hawks was drinking and hunting with Hemingway, Hawks bet him he could make a good movie out of the worst thing he ever wrote, "To Have and Have Not". Hemingway said the novel was bad, written in a flash for some quick money. Hawks suceeded in his challenge, but he cheated - he brought in additional drinking buddies Jules Furthman and William Faulkner to work on the script (perhaps the only one ever worked over by 2 Nobel Prize literature winners) and he changed the ending. The plot of the movie can't be followed very easily and is best ignored, but it has some terrific scenes and lines (tho the "blow whistle" bit Hawks himself wrote):
Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinkin' water, again.
You're both going to take a beating 'til one of you uses that phone. That means one of you will take a beating for nothing.
Her: Who was the girl, Steve?
Him: Who was what girl?
Her: The one who left you with such a high opinion of women.
RIP
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Olivia de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is the last living star from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She lives in Paris, and has looked at many scripts for years to do a final cameo appearance, but never found one to her liking, and is now not looking anymore...
LA Times picture - Lauren Bacall
her most famous clip here, in her first ever movie appearance (with future husband Humphrey Bogart), from Howard Hawks' version of the Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"
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Hawks said his wife spotted Bacall on the cover of "Harper's Bazzar" and decided that face was ready-made for the screen. But naturally he worried what she sounded like, he knew pretty teen gals like this ya want for movie roles frequently had a grating high pitched talk. When he heard her voice for that first time, he nearly fell out of his chair and quickly informed her "you are doing a screen test for me right now!"
The story is Hawks was drinking and hunting with Hemingway, Hawks bet him he could make a good movie out of the worst thing he ever wrote, "To Have and Have Not". Hemingway said the novel was bad, written in a flash for some quick money. Hawks suceeded in his challenge, but he cheated - he brought in additional drinking buddies Jules Furthman and William Faulkner to work on the script (perhaps the only one ever worked over by 2 Nobel Prize literature winners) and he changed the ending. The plot of the movie can't be followed very easily and is best ignored, but it has some terrific scenes and lines (tho the "blow whistle" bit Hawks himself wrote):
Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinkin' water, again.
You're both going to take a beating 'til one of you uses that phone. That means one of you will take a beating for nothing.
Her: Who was the girl, Steve?
Him: Who was what girl?
Her: The one who left you with such a high opinion of women.
RIP
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Olivia de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is the last living star from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She lives in Paris, and has looked at many scripts for years to do a final cameo appearance, but never found one to her liking, and is now not looking anymore...
