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By: Evie

Evie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:16:56 +0000

Please tell me Lauren Bacall is this week’s Friday Fierceness…

By: Plumcake

Plumcake — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:02:51 +0000

If any of you Bacall enthusiasts can locate her readings of Dorothy Parker’s “The Big Blonde” and “Horsie” buy it at any price.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:53:24 +0000

My mother has always had a bit of a thing for Humphrey Bogart, which has resulted in me watching all of these movies over and over and over, ever since I was little. So thank you for this! I love him. And Lauren Bacall, who is exactly who I want to be when I grow up.

The African Queen is finally available on DVD in the US, starting on the 23rd. About damn time, say I.

By: Toby Wollin

Toby Wollin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:16:09 +0000

Ah, The African Queen, which, IMHO, has one of the truly great lines in cinematic history: “Nature, Mr. Alnott, is what we are here to rise above.”
The Victorian lady just drips off that.

By: Frances

Frances — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:08:00 +0000

19?! Phwoar. Seriously: Phwoar.

By: jojo.k

jojo.k — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:34:18 +0000

She was 19? That’s an awful lot of chutzpah for 19. And that voice.
19 doesn’t seem to go with that voice either.

By: Plumcake

Plumcake — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:21 +0000

He really didn’t like working with the director Billy Wilder, he thought the Sabrina script was bad (it wasn’t finished when he agreed to do the picture) and was really unhappy on the set. Plus he was the second choice from the beginning. Wilder originally wanted Cary Grant.

By: Geogrrl

Geogrrl — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:11:44 +0000

Oh, yeah. Bogey. I’ve had a semi-crush on him for years.

What I thought was interesting was that many of the stories that filtered out over the years all said what an a-hole he was.

Then I read Raymond Massey’s autobiography. Perhaps it says more about him than it does about Humphrey Bogart, but Raymond Massey basically said he didn’t understand why other people didn’t get along with Humphrey Bogart. The two of them got along great and were friends on and off the set until Bogart died.

My husband said it’s because Bogart would have respected Massey, his reputation as a stage actor, and his professionalism, as Bogart didn’t suffer fools gladly.

I don’t recall the exact quote, but when Bogart was asked how he had liked working with Audrey Hepburn on “Sabrina”, his reply was something like, “Fine. If you don’t mind doing ten takes of each scene.” Audrey Hepburn was evidently famous for not memorizing or forgetting her lines.