Happy Birthday, Lauren Bacall!

She had flavAH

My favorite time of day IS night

Happy Birthday, Betty Queen Mother!

Older Lauren kind of reminds me of my grandmother. She even had a similar voice to hers, hardened by decades of Marlboros.

Drunk ass, foul mouthed broad.

Despised in Hollywood. That’s why she didn’t get that Oscar… even though she was a hundred years old.

Major respect for Betty. After Bogie died, the Hollywood establishment gave her the cold shoulder. She reinvented herself as a major stage star in New York and London.

You’re a cunt Betty!

Knew her a bit. Quite a cunt.

Applause!

R3 Who’s the other lady?

I think she was a classy grand dame. A straight shooter who was dealt an unfair deck early in life.

R8

Any more to share?

R6, She was the den mother to the original Rat Pack. I think it was after her relationship with Sinatra fizzled when she lost clout.

R10, Kim Novak

I remember when she was on Dick Cavett

How big a star could she have been? Her apartment was on the first floor!

The time Our Glenn visited Miss Bacall at the Dakota.

Betty's cuntery is well-documented, but I think that, as is the case with most profound cunts, it all stemmed from deep-seated insecurity.

r15 Oh ok, good

Someone here posted this years ago, and I still think it's interesting. Judy Crown - award-winning hairstylist - talks about how mean Lauren was.

Loved her in every movie she played. Even the dreadful thing with Stuart Whitman and Roddy Mcdowall.

So what if she's cunty. Cats everywhere love her for Fancy Feast.

She needed hearts, not diamonds.

Look at that wrinkled old hag! Once I hit 34 I never had my picture taken by any kind of camera. Instant coffee commercials? I lived for years off the money of my rich male suitors and I was a lesbian! I didnt work for 60 years and lived in luxury!

I've worked with Bacall and I think she behaves cunty and impossibly demanding if you allow it. Once you call her out on her shit, she'll suddenly respect you for having the chutzpah to challenge her. I think she does that to test how far she can push it with you and how far you can stick your tongue up her ass. Madonna behaves in a similar fashion.

Desert Island Discs- Lauren Bacall (1979)

Music Played:

Ella Fitzgerald- Isn't It A Pity (from Pardon My English)

Sergey Rachmaninov- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor with Soloist: Sergei Rachmaninov; Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

William Shakespeare- "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet No. 130) Artist: John Gielgud

Moritz Moszkowski- Etude In A Flat with Soloist: Vladimir Horowitz

Johannes Brahms- Violin Concerto in D major with Soloist: Isaac Stern; Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor: Eugene Ormandy

Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence- Has Anybody Seen Our Ship

Nat King Cole- When The World Was Young

Giacomo Puccini- "O soave fanciulla" (from La Bohème) with Soloist: Placido Domingo, Monserrat Caballe; Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Georg Solti

Book Choice

Collected Short Stories - John Cheever

Luxury Choice

Sun tan lotion

Lauren Bacall in conversation with Charlie Rose (1994)

R24 a lot of people with that disposition are like this. It's almost like they're putting you through a test. Some will quietly respect you once you push back and things will carry on smoothly after, but the risk you take as the individual being pushed around is that sometimes once you stand up for yourself, the instigator will become dedicated to making your life a living hell. I'm not sure if Bacall did that, though I could certainly see Madge taking that route.

I toasted Ms. Bacall's birthday with six cups of High Point. It's decaffeinated. ☕️

Watched Murder on the Orient Express on TV a few weeks ago and I thought she stole the movie and deserved the Oscar more than Ingrid. And she aged very gracefully.

[quote]R11 A straight shooter who was dealt an unfair deck early in life.

“Unfair deck”?? You mean being spotted on the cover of a fashion magazine as a teen, then being flown from Brooklyn to Hollywood to be put under contract by a top director, and having her first leading man divorce his wife for her? THAT unfair deck??

She was kinda mannish.

I mean, not as mannish as Bogart but

R30 an unfair deck that Bogie died so young. He was only 57.

LIZABETH @ R23, please! You forget that you did that movie with Michael Caine when you were 50 and looked 70! Considering how you can't even spell your name correctly, I'm going to assume your forgetfulness is due to postmortem dementia.

Well, that’s what happens when you marry a man [italic]three times your age!

I'm unfamiliar with her biography.

Did she have daddy issues? What was her childhood like?

I was obsessed with By Myself when I was in high school. New York! Old Hollywood! Now I think a 19 year old dating a 44 year old is gross. And I do recall a scene where she was interviewing a nanny from a phone booth in 21, even back then I'm like you're talking on the phone in public to someone who will take care of your children?

Remember when a reporter called Nicole Kidman a legend and Betty laughed in his face?

R34. Preach!

r37 Link

[quote]R35 Did she have daddy issues? What was her childhood like?

Maybe. Her dad abandoned the family when she was young and she was raised by an old fashioned, conservative Jewish mother and extended family. She went to acting school, did a bit part on Broadway then another show that closed out of town, and fell into modeling to make money.

Things moved quickly from there.

[quote]How big a star could she have been? Her apartment was on the first floor!

4th floor, bitches!

Fun fact:

Betty’s dressing room was located right on stage during her runs in Applause and Woman of the Year on Broadway. She would open her dressing room door and step right into the scene. I guess she didn’t like walking too much.

R39 Please see attached

She's the High Point Coffee Gal around here

Here for the age-old Eldergay debate over Lauren Bacall's ONE Academy Award nomination being for "The Mirror Has Two Faces."

Should she have won over Juliette Binoche? Or is her broader lack of recognition purely proof that the Academy is bullshit?

Jesus

She was a bit too friendly with the Kennedys, especially Bobby. I think RFK had a crush on her. I wonder if they were occasionally more than just friends.

A 4th floor apartment! Don't even get me started.

And you’re a fucking queer Rex!

R47 She was closer to Adlai Stevenson

Who else lived in rhe Dakota?

r51 Do you have access to Google?

The building was named in honor of Little Crow, known for leading the Dakota people in the Dakota War of 1862. He was the first resident in fact.

I never cared for her. Cold vibe.

Love her