Hollywood's Dark Screen Siren 

Superior work here!! No bashing, no judging. Just an honest, open faced docu-coverage, of a famous and loved American. I applaud all those involved with this. Thank you, from an old school American.....

About 25 years ago, I wrote to Lauren Bacall and 2 other actresses, requesting autographs. I included an 8x10 photo and a SASE. Of the three, Bacall was the one I least expected to respond. I was overjoyed when I received Bacall's signed photo exactly 2 weeks later. It was the fastest response I had ever received in sending fan mail. Of the other two, 1 of them signed and returned my photo a few months later and the 3rd one never responded.

Many years ago i was head pianist at the jonathan club,i was playing at the beach club when i saw lauren bacall out of the corner of my eye,i immediately started playing as time goes by like in the movies in that 30s style. She stopped walking ,looked at me, with the most beautiful smile ever,and blew me a kiss,and said thankyou to me .she was older but still beautiful,and she was exactly what she was ,a huge star from the golden era of Hollywood....and believe me she also looked every inch the star,tall and with classic beauty...i played for them all,but she was tops for me,what class ......

I met her and listened to her speak about her life when she was older. She was clearly very intelligent. And clearly loved Bogey.

There's a story of Bacall having lunch in a small café with a friend and being recognized by a young woman. Bacall was asked "Are you Lauren Bacall?" , to which she replied, "what would Lauren Bacall be doing in a place like this?"

My favorite actress. I saw her on Broadway. Seeing her coming out the stage door to her waiting limo, with a wide smile and waving to us standing there, I was delighted to have seen her.

That "whistle" scene is really one for the ages. It's a wonder Humphrey Bogart didn't spontaneously combust when she said it, that's how hot Lauren Bacall was.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Miss Bacall's birth.

I admired her striking looks and acting abilities in classic films. I felt her pain for her loss, because she truly loved Humphrey Bogart, father of her children. Then I saw her on « The Mirrow has Two Faces », by Barbra Streisand. Her performance there, at her age, was excellent. What is beauty? How worth is it without capacity for depth and interpretation? I saw her once again at Harry’s Bar in Venice and she was just as I imagined: just as beautiful and ageless, forever ✨

I started writing to movie stars back in the early fifties when I was a young teenager. Back then celebrities were very appreciative of their fans and fan letters. I have an album full of autographed photos. In later years I wrote a letter to Gene Tierney ( she was quite ill at this time) telling her how much I loved her movies especially The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. About a week later I received a card thanking me and or course her signature. She died ten days later. I hold this as a very special place in my album and my heart!

oh my god. Laying that whistle on his grave with that inscription is heartbreaking... I cant even 😭😭😭

Such a stunning and sultry actress. She always lent a look of mystery to film she played in. Bacall and Bogart together lent an air or mystery, sophistication and beauty to any films they acted in together. They were soulmates, so it seems.

She was talented, beautiful and elegant. She had a good life, and she had a long life. I don't think we can ask for more than that.

That was such a heartwarming overview of Lauren, McCall‘s career and life. She was of another era and one of a kind.

Like Gene Tierney, Lauren had a look that has never been repeated. We get look alike blondes and cookie cutter faces…but they broke the molds when they made Gene and Lauren.

My father's cousin used to work around Hollywood studios with his parents. He was the same age as Lauren Bacall, and he claimed that his mother tried to arrange a date for him with Lauren when she first showed up at the Warner Bros. studio, before she was famous. He said that he refused the date because she was too skinny! I am not sure whether to believe this story, but it made a good yarn because nobody could imagine refusing a date with Lauren Bacall! It was credible, because the ages, dates locations all match up!

Despite the age difference, theirs was a real love story ❤

To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep are two of my favorite movies. Bacall and Bogart had such chemistry!

Bette Davis was a brilliant actress and created an impact on the screen

I had a nice experience with Bacall I requested her to autograph my 1944 Life magazine with her on the cover “ New Movie Find” Still have it proudly hanging in my house .

A truly wonderful presentation. Please continue your authenticity. Very appealing.

I love this narrator! I could listen to you all day!

I remember seeing her being interviewed and what she had to say about Sinatra was "See this floor tile? It has more personality than Frank Sinatra." He would have been a terrible husband and I doubt she would have put up with him for long. Good riddance.

I've always loved Lauren (Betty) Bacall and I've enjoyed most of her films, but I didn't know that she had been on stage as well. She has oddly appealing iciness about her that leaves her audience wondering if she's about to give us a great one-line zinger, or go into a tirade - whatever 'it' is, she's got it in spades. Thank you for all of your videos, they are well researched and quite enjoyable.

Bacall s eye's started the phrase bedroom eyes.

I’ve always admired Lauren Bacall, a beautiful no-nonsense woman. Her decision to never have plastic surgery in the movie world that seems to rely on its falsity, proves her magnificence.

Nicely produced about Bacall. At this point I feel I must also recommend for the apparent integrity of NOT relying on A I text to voice.

I saw her in the audience at a performance of Hamlet with Jude Law.as I walked up the aisle. She caught my eye with an imperious look that implied "Don't even think about it!" lol. I wouldn't have interfered with her privacy!

Always beautiful and mysterious, Ms. Bacall was the epitome of style and grace. Any woman who could cause Bogie to melt into his shoes is a force to be reckoned with. @ 6:45, the young man seen first in the photo is a young Ronald Reagan. R.I.P. Beautiful Dreamer.

She was so gorgeous. Love her❤

Beautiful stunning actress. Completely dominated the screen every frame she featured in. Very few actors that powerful.

I read her autobiography "By, Myself", twice, way back in the late 1980's (the book was published in 1978 I believe) when the book stores and libraries were overflowing with the autobiographies (both official and NOT so official) of the world greatest classic film stars (except they weren't called "classic films" back then because most of those stars were still very much alive and still working (Bacall still had about 7 years to go before her one and only Academic Award nominated role in the Barbara Striesand film The Mirror Has Two Faces for example, & Katherine Hepburn had just won her 4th Best Actress Academy Award 5 years earlier. Anyway I don't remember reading anything in her autobiography about an affair with Hawks. And she wasn't one to hide her dirty laundry, provided there was an A list name hanging on her line she could brag about. Yes she was beautiful, she was also 19 yo when she married Bogart, and she was 19 when she met him too! I do remember her writing about the grown up drama she got herself tangled in as her affair with Bogart gained momentum. His then wife Mayo, I think she was #2, and a raging alcoholic. Then again so was Bogart. His wife used to call Betty's house , smashed, in the middle of the night to warn her about Bogart and they'd hang up her phone would ring again and this time it would be Bogart, smashed, calling from a pay phone or the phone that belonged to the bar he was drinking in. He'd stay out all night just to get away from his wife. And Betty's mother would take the phone and tell everyone to "Go to bed! Betty's got to work in the morning!" Oh how exciting it must have been for her! "So what! I've got Humphrey Bogart all up in my shit! Who's the no talent now!?"

This was so good, so well done. I was sorry that I could see the years of smoking on her face. But still beautiful. I could feel the chemistry with Bogart.

Very moving documentary. My compliments. Brilliant.

We had it all (we had it all!) Just like Bogie and Bacall Starring in our own late-late show Sailing away to Key Largo - Bertie Higgins I always thought the song referenced their films, not their actual lives.

Lauren Bacall never had a crush on Bogart. She first saw him in Casablanca and even when they met, she said there was no fireworks or anything. It was only after he went to her dressing room to kiss her that she knew something was there. Read her autobiography. Bogart told Bacall during "The Big Sleep" production that he went back to his wife and she cried so much, she had to press ice on her face to lower the swelling before filming. Something also worth mentioning was that she was in acting school with Kirk Douglas but had to drop out because she didn't qualify for a scholarship, it only went to men.

Always loved LB. Thanks for the video and great narration.

An excellent presentation, worthy of many more views then 43K. Bacall was an example of a woman who was sexy and seductive without being Hollywood beautiful. Next to Grable and Monroe she's clearly not the prettiest but by far the most interesting and attractive.

Another fine narration by the only one on this account I'll give my time to. He's easy to listen to and properly pronounces his words

Great video with superior writing and narration. Thanks.

What an interesting person she was, and not just on the screen and stage.

An excellent synopsis of her career. Thank you.

It will always be Bogie and Bacall!! Nothing like them since!! I love all their movies‘ together because you can see their real love for each other.

A wonderful and moving story, brilliantly told. Congratulations; you really have done her justice. What a beautiful life, sad that Bogie passed so relatively young.

Wow. She refused Grumman's invitation. Any actor would jump at that chance. This speaks volumes of her humility.

Wonderful bio of Lauren Bacall. She was, to me, the most beautiful woman of that era. Stunning, classy and smart. Her and Bogie were the real thing.

Nicely done, buddy. You brought a tear to an old man's eye.

Even growing up watching Lauren Bacall in the classics, I was in love ;)

She has always been one of my favorites! Great video

My mother was a friend of both Betty Davis and Bacall. She knew Bacall from the early 50's until she left town - they were both young ladies in Hollywood married to actors, my mom worked for SAG. I can assure all you have this narrative exactly correct, except when the affair with Sinatra started. He was a total jerk to many women. The Big Sleep was a big hit but makes no sense. I think her best film was the Shootist - she was brilliant in it, Hollywood Royalty. Bacall was very Jewish - to her soul.

I think that Key Largo is her best movie. She's really lovely and stripped down in it. It's a very good movie too. She would be considered a beauty now even more than then. She has a very modern face and long lean look. Her face was angular with beautiful natural tawny hair and hooded, feline eyes. Not so much exotic as modelesque. A beauty.

Lauren Bacall wrote two autobiographies, so I'm not sure I would classify her as "remarkably private."

She was lovely

Definitely a power couple.

This video does not mention her name at birth, Betty Joan Perske. Or the fact that she was related by blood to the Israeli political figure, Simon Peres. Despite coming of age during the Depression, Betty Joan had a comfortable childhood and did not experience hard times.

Beautifully done. Thank you.

Fantastic presentation about Lauren Bacall! Truly, it was beautifully done. Thank you! I love your channel! ❤

This video was excellent. I didn't know any of this and your take on the story was well done. I enjoyed it. Thanks. Now, I know the real story!

Hooray, she SPEAKS !!! Thank u very much !!!!!!!

So classy. I cried when she died and they replayed her Charlie Rose interview.

Love triangle. Sounds romantic. What if you said that two men were exploiting the youth and sexuality of a young woman for their own satisfaction and Bacall was compliant because she knew that that this was how the game was played and she was willing to be used in order to get what she wanted. Everyone was being exploited. Love triangle it was not.

I named my daughter after her cause she's the best!

Great work man. The photos are tops and narration calm and informative

You told this brilliantly,I really enjoyed this I’m not a fan of either Bacall or Bogart never watched their movies but I enjoyed this very much,thank you.

What a tear jerker ending! 😭 I would have kept the whistle around my neck and been buried with it 💞

Well she was one of a kind. Very in love with Bogie . She knew he was married but still had a affair with him, so who knows if he had affairs after she and Bogie married? There is no doubt he was the love of her life.

Great video. I am going to read up on Ms. Bacall.

My favorite silver screen siren of all time. 💖

A very well narrated, fascinating documentary.

My favorite couple from that era. "To Have And Have Not" is my favorite classic movie. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you!

Superb documentary.. Thank you.

She was "Hypnotizing". Wow!

The women and photography was beautiful back then in the golden age of Hollywood!

You have a real talent! Thank you for this great video, containing some facts I'd never known. Subscribing.

She was one of the greats 🙂

very informative and concise bio, thanks. i guess emphasizing scandal in the description increases views, but sounds like she had a great, full life with a lot of love as well as loss.

two old ass guys fighting over a 19 year old, of course nobody saw anything wrong with that, although a 19 year old would a 25 year old in today's money

Beautiful Eyes, Lauren Bacall, sensuous lady!!!!

God bless the beautiful women! I never heard the story of her nervousness, and the technique to hold her chin down and look up with her eyes. That is her signature look. Those high cheekbones and wide-set eyes, still makes men melt and women too. I’m happy they had their children together. God bless the children. Thanks for an enlightening and charming video. ✨

Really good documentary, and well presented. How many people knew she was engaged to Sinatra? Modern cyber data sometimes makes you go "Hmmmm".

There are dvd’s of To Have & Have Not, unless all have spontaneously combusted from the 🔥heat on set, from the ⚡️lightning between Bogie & Bacall……

I appreciate channels like this for exposing the truth that Hollywood is an immoral cesspit and always has been.

Loved this video and the Narrator thank you.

Very interesting. Cool info. Thanks!

Maybe Howard Hawk is where The Godfather character Jack Woltz came from.

Why do sites like this have to put up everything that happens to someone in Hollywood why must they print or use all of the bad things? Everyone is human, everyone has faults, everyone has problems whether you're famous or not. When I was growing up I saw many of these Golden Age stars in movies that I loved and when I saw them give interviews they were gracious and kind and the audience on these shows seem to love them. Why put out all the bad stuff that happened in their lives? Just because they're no longer here?

Hawks told her to lower her voice...no lower. Lower still.

This was very well done. Bravo.

and the 1980s song, "Bogie and Bacall at Key Largo"

Outstanding!

Her crush growing up was actor Leslie Howard. She and Bogart named their daughter Leslie after him. Bogart was never her "crush". Read her autobiography "By Myself".

Esophageal cancer. That, and a lifetime of cigarettes, are what got my dad. I didn't know that's what Bogart died from. But as I listened, I KNEW, the way this narrator described Bogart's symptoms instantly brought back my dad's awful experience.

I love this narrator, well done!

Lauren Bacall took part in New Zealand's telethon in 1979. She completely won the country over by taking part in all manner of stunts to help raise money for charity. She was down-to-earth, funny, personable and just a wonderful person.

Wow I knew she was an elegant and gracious legend but what class. Touching story thank you.

Nicely done!

What a remarkable story, well told.

My favorite narrator! 🌸

How old was Bacall when Hawks recruited her? Only in Hollywood is grooming legal. Love Bogie and Bacall as screen gems. As people, not so much.

⚘ WHAT A CLASSY VIDEO. New subscriber. Thank you!