RIP Lauren Bacall

[Hank_Scorpio]

http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/actress-lauren-bacall-dies-at-89-variety/

 

[Michael_ Gee]

A Hollywood legend and justly so. Too bad.

 

[da man]

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

So long, Betty.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Who from that age of Hollywood is still living?

 

[X-Hack]

I thought I saw Lauren Bacall
I thought I saw Lauren Bacall
(In a car jam)
I swear, hey fellas, hey fellas
Lauren Bacall
(In a car jam)

RIP

 

[hondo]

She and Ingrid Bergman were the two hottest, classiest chicks of their day.

 

[YankeeFan]

From the LA Times archive, via Beschloss:

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Who from that age of Hollywood is still living?

Olivia de Havilliand is still alive.

 

[Riptide]

Kirk Douglas and Zsa Zsa Gabor are 97.

 

[HanSenSE]

Paraphrasing a tweet from one of our own: She lived for 57 years after Bogie, who died in '57 at age 57

 

[da man]

She and Ingrid Bergman were the two hottest, classiest chicks dames of their day.

Fixed.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I thought I saw Lauren Bacall
I thought I saw Lauren Bacall
(In a car jam)
I swear, hey fellas, hey fellas
Lauren Bacall
(In a car jam)

RIP

Had that going through my head all evening.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Kirk Douglas and Zsa Zsa Gabor are 97.

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.

 

[Colton]

What a grand dame (said with complete respect).

RIP...

 

[Joe Williams]

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.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

From the LA Times archive, via Beschloss:

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

On Feb. 10, 1945, then-Vice President Truman was taking part in a stage show for servicemen at the National Press Club canteen. While playing piano for an audience of about 800 men in uniform, Bacall, who was part of the entertainment, was boosted atop the upright piano.
Bacall posed fetchingly as the vice president played a tune. The crowd cheered. Flashbulbs popped.
“I was just a kid,” Bacall later said. “My press agent made me do it.”
The photos appeared all over the world. But back home, Mrs. Truman was none too happy.
In fact, she was furious, David McCullough wrote in his best-selling biography of Truman.
“She told him he should play the piano in public no more,” he wrote.

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?

 

[hondo]

Kirk Douglas and Zsa Zsa Gabor are 97.

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.

 

[Webster]

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"

 

[ColdCat]

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

 

[Rainman]

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.