RIP Lauren Bacall

I was googling Gabor and saw a heartrending story about her realizing her leg had been amputated 18 months after the fact.
What a f'in indignity.
I pray I don't even see 80.

 

What a grand dame (said with complete respect).

RIP...

 

Recall a Rockford Fiels two-parter with Bacall. Some nice chemistry with recently departed James Garner (not quite at Mariette Hartley level, of course). RIP.

 

Reminded of my of this ... One of my favorite Truman photos and stories.

I think Bacall had one of the most glamorous faces in Hollywood of all-time.
Didn't know Sinatra got pissed off at the leaked news of their engagement in 1958 (Bogie died the year before) and refused to speak to her for 20 years.
20 years! WTF?

 

Not sure Zsa Zsa is in the same class as Bacall or Kirk Douglas. She was pretty much the first person to be famous for being famous.

 

She never recovered from being robbed by Christopher for her luxury gift basket at the hotel in L.A. She was also the recipient of my favorite Little Carmine line -- "Enjoy your success"

 

With her death, all 16 icons mentioned in Madonna's 'Vogue' are now gone.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/12/lauren_bacall_was_last_living_icon_name_dropped_in_madonna_s_vogue.html

 

I don't think any other actress from Hollywood's Golden Age have been as strong, capable, independent, and liberated as she and Katharine Hepburn were.

 

Great read on Bacall and the tempest of her anger.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2724274/Vamp-volcanic-temper-One-mesmeric-beauties-smoulder-screen-bewitched-Bogart-AND-Sinatra-betrayed-No-wonder-Lauren-Bacall-acid-tongue-Hollywood.html