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Lauren Bacall: Old Hollywood
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Lauren Bacall is in a revival of a minor Noel Coward play, Waiting in the Wings, which opened in Boston last night en route to Broadway. Also in the cast: Elizabeth Wilson, Rosemary Harris, Rosemary Murphy, Barnard Hughes, Dana Ivey, Helen Stenborg . . . a lot of great older actresses and actors. The premise: a bunch of retired actresses together in a sort of retirement home, with Harris as the grandest of grande dames and Bacall as her major rival.
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Lauren Bacall's rise to fame as a Hollywood star was meteoric. Soon after Mrs. Howard Hawks noticed her on the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar, the 19-year-old model was quickly signed by producer-director Hawks to a seven-year studio contract.
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Bacall became a part-time fashion model. Howard Hawks's wife Slim spotted her on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and showed the photo to her husband, who invited Bacall to Hollywood for a screen test.
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