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Lauren Bacall: Douglas Sirk
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In 1996, Bacall enjoyed a critical resurgence with what was by far her best screen role in years (if not decades). In Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces, she played yet another urban sophisticate, this one a self-centered Manhattanite. But here, the part was meaty, not merely window dressing but a major component of the story. As a result, Bacall won kudos and awards for her knowing performance. Three years later, she appeared to lesser effect as a madam in Diamonds, in which she was teamed with Kirk Douglas. The two had been friends since the 1940s, and their pairing served as a nostalgic nod to the glories of Old Hollywood star power.
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Written on the Wind, directed by Douglas Sirk in 1956, is now considered a classic tear-jerker.[12] Teaming up with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack, Bacall played a determined soap opera woman. Bacall states in her autobiography that she didn't think much of the role. While struggling at home with Bogart's severe illness, Bacall starred with Gregory Peck in the 1957 slapstick comedy Designing Woman for rave reviews.
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Before long, Bacall was projecting a slightly astringent, extremely appealing image of a clever woman of the world, capable of moving in very classy circles yet always a little bit of a "dame". Like Garbo and Dietrich before her, Bacall's sulky, androgynous beauty made possible an interesting variety of roles, from the sexually ambiguous "bad girl" of "Young Man with a Horn" (1950) to the most subdued and resourceful of three women seeking "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953) and the distraught wife in Douglas Sirk's striking melodrama, "Written on the Wind" (1956).
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