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I'm in ♥ with Lauren Bacall!

 
 
Panda
23:55 / 24.07.02
In case you're wondering who that is...



I just watched The Big Sleep today. Lauren Bacall was married to Humphrey Bogart, although I wasn't particularly keen on him.

I now have this photo on my desktop.

But this photo doesn't really do her justice - It's her damn voice that was so memorable! Deep and husky, seductive - she delivers lines like no-ones business.

Even if I was Humphrey Bogart in this picture -



I'm sorry, but I'd go for Mrs Bacall every time.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:18 / 25.07.02
Fun fact re: Lauren Bacall and her famous husky voice: when she sang, as in To Have and Have Not, she was dubbed by a playback singer--common practice in those days. But no woman could be found with a range convincingly close to hrs, so her singing was dubed by a young Andy Williams.
 
 
Stone Mirror
00:18 / 25.07.02
Ha!

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow."

She was a writer, not a movie star, but if I'd been around at the time, I'd have gone after Dorothy Parker. Dorothy was a babe.
 
 
Panda
01:21 / 25.07.02
Let's see a picture of this babe then!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
03:25 / 25.07.02
I love Lauren Bacall. I wish I could have been her. She and Bogie were the most amazing couple ever. He left his first wife for her, but she and Bogie remained in the love damn near 13 years before he died.
 
 
moriarty
03:39 / 25.07.02
I rarely find myself attracted to movie stars and celebrities, but I adore Lauren Bacall. Have you seen her over the last decade or so? She still makes my heart skip.

I also really like Fay Wray. I started crying when they surprised her with a tribute at the Oscars a few years back.

And I'll second Dorothy Parker. Though she was dead wrong about the glasses thing.

Guess I dig on early 20th Century celebs after all.
 
 
Stone Mirror
05:06 / 25.07.02
You wanna see Dorothy? Ok, here you go:



Sigh! And she had a tongue and a load of wit. When she was told that President Calvin Coolidge had died, she replied, "How can they tell?" At a party, a guest asked her, rather breathlessly, "Are you Dorothy Parker?" to which she responded, "Yes, do you mind?"

Here's Dorothy's "Martini Poem":

I like to have a martini,
Or two at the very most.
After three, I'm under the table;
After four, I'm under my host!


Wotta woman!
 
 
NotBlue
18:40 / 26.07.02
Lauren - "Slim - I'm a bit too thin to take that as a joke Steve",

D.A.M.N, whatta girl, gorgeous, witty AND tough.

Unusual for Barbeboos, but as far as dream girl worship goes lovely Laueren age (19 in THOHN, 20(1) in TBS sooooooo gets my vote.

Fanboy drooling over. We return you to your normal Duncan lurking service.
 
 
Annunnaki-9
04:31 / 27.07.02
Lauren Bacall....


*Sigh* She was, is and always will be the best. Beyond beauty, transcending belief, divine, devotee, diva? I love her, only second to my beloved- a dream.

Yeah.

Wow.
 
 
Knight's Move
11:25 / 27.07.02
Bogart really did get some of the best women. I've always been torn between the divine Miss Bacall and the stunning Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca for you philistines out there going who?). She had style, class, and a quiet look about her that belied the sheer passion burning within her. Mmmmmm. Black and white women...(as in films that is).
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
07:01 / 28.07.02
Wasn't Bacall having a fling with Frank Sinatra just as Bogart was dying? I seem to recall something about that...
 
 
Mazarine
07:47 / 28.07.02
Moderatorial question- is there supposed to be a word in the title between 'in' and 'with'? And am I the only one not seeing it if there is?

Mrs. Parker is a charmer, Stone, I'll toast to that.
 
 
Mazarine
07:54 / 28.07.02
I'll also toast to this:


Hello Mister Newman.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:13 / 28.07.02
Maz: it's a heart symbol. Your character set settings may not be picking it up, for some reason.
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
19:46 / 28.07.02
This is the classiest pyjama party I've been to in a long time...

Here's my all time favourite B&W movie star for this week:



Louise Brooks, fabled libertine who may or may not have been the inspiration for Edith from 'The Invisibles'
 
 
Mazarine
21:01 / 28.07.02
Thanks Roth. Clara Bow is a cutie too- they didn't call her the 'It Girl' for nothin'.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
15:00 / 02.08.02
How can you not love Bogey? Have you SEEN Casablanca?!? He might not be the prettiest bloke on the screen, but he's a sexy motherfucker all right.
 
  
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