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Lauren Bacall: New York
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Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Matt Damon, Melanie Griffith, Holly Hunter, George Lucas, Kelly Preston and Charlize Theron will be presenters at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards. Yahoo News; Inside Daily Vareity, January 21, 1999.
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Lauren Bacall threatens children, but at least they are her own. She’s told The Independent newspaper, in a great interview, what she plans to do if her children ever authorize a posthumous biopic of her life.
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[W]hat happened on Bacall's return to New York? In 77 pages of new material she kick-starts a dormant screen career with "On the Orient Express," stars on Broadway again -- this time in "Woman of the Year," and wins her second Tony ("Applause" was her first). Now that her three children are grown, she sails into the '90s determined to work, work, work. It turns out the '90s were "surprisingly good and productive years," despite the jolt she gets when looking in the mirror and seeing someone much older than she feels.
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In the 1960s, Bacall's movie career waned, and she was only seen in a handful of films. But on Broadway she starred in Goodbye, Charlie (1959), Cactus Flower (1965), Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). She won Tony Awards for her performances in the latter two. The few movies Bacall shot during this period were all-star vehicles such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964) with Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, Harper (1966) with Paul Newman and Janet Leigh, and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney and Sean Connery.
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A child of divorce raised by a working mother, Bacall started out as a starstruck kid named Betty. She began taking acting lessons at age 15, acted in school productions, and like thousands of other struggling young actors waiting for a big break, she worked at various odd jobs, including garment district model, theater usher, and selling guides in front of Sardi’s restaurant. At age 18 she caught the eye of Diana Vreeland, editor of Harper’s Bazaar, and was featured prominently in the magazine three months in a row. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to notice, and by 1943 Betty Bacall had signed a contract with director Howard Hawks. Less than a year later shooting began on To Have and Have Not and before the picture had even wrapped, Warner Brothers knew that Betty, their latest discovery, would soon be their newest star: Lauren Bacall. The noted film critic James Agee proclaimed: "Bacall has cinema personality to burn."
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Bacall was alluding to Cruise's displays of emotion and public courting of Katie Holmes in the weeks leading up to the release of his new film, War of the Worlds. Cruise and Holmes became engaged in June after he proposed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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