Lauren Bacall is dead: On the death of Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall – Tagesspiegel

11:34 clock By Christian Schröder

She was the last of the classic Hollywood diva. Lauren Bacall was married to Humphrey Bogart, who always “Baby” nannte- with thrillers such as “Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” she wrote film history. Now she died at 89 years in New York.

She was the heroine of the Cool, the incarnation of a jaded, opaque woman in the movies of Hollywood noir. In film noirs like “To Have and Have Not” (“To Have and Have Not,” 1944), “The Big Sleep” (“The Big Sleep, 1946″), “Dark Passage” (“The unknown face”, 1947) or “Key Largo” (“Key Largo”, 1948), classics of the genre, played Lauren Bacall heroines who could take it to cunning with men. She got a contract with Warner Brothers studio, where Humphrey Bogart.

had just ascended the undisputed male star. Already in the filming of “To Have and Have Not”, her screen debut, is Bacall and Bogart fell in love. With her tall, slender figure, the distinctive eyebrows, cat-like eyes and husky voice Bacall brought a new, more natural and androgyneren type of woman into Hollywood cinema. However Bacall Bogart towered a head length. For kissing scenes, the actor had to climb on a stool. They married in May 1945, after Bogart from his third wife Mayo Method had divorced. Their marriage lasted until Bogart’s death in 1957. ‘/ P>

Bacall named Bogart always with his nickname “Bogie” and held it firmly even after his death. “Bogie played an enormous role in my life,” she said, when she was elected in 2007 to the film festival to Berlin. “He gave me a life, my life. He has taught me a lot about the film industry, about life in Hollywood. He had an incredible presence was never lukewarm, always interesting. I am very happy to have shared my life with him. And very sad that our time together was so short, twelve years only. Damn unfair that he has not seen our children grow up. “Bogart called her” baby “. They had two children together, the documentary director Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born 1949) and yoga teacher Leslie Bogart (born 1952). With her second husband, actor Jason Robards, they had another son.

Lauren Bacall was the last surviving of the classic Hollywood diva. But in conversation, the fatal woman of film noirs were amazingly quick-witted, and interested faces. She confessed to being a workaholic. “The fact that I can work with is very important to me,” she announced. “Just the fact that I can still walk and talk and am still use to something. Work keeps me alive. Therefore, I will continue to work as long as I can. “Since the turn of the millennium Bacall has occurred in thirteen films and television productions, for the crime drama” Trouble Is My Business “, which is currently being filmed, she was cast in a starring role. In the theater, she had last been in 1999. She was in such classics as “How to Marry a Millionaire?” on the side of Marilyn Monroe and “Murder on the Orient Express” here, but also in works of contemporary auteur cinema as “Dogville” by Lars von Trier. When aging helped her two properties: intelligence and wit. “If you have a brain, you would like to use it,” was their credo. “So do Surround with people who have a brain. I like people with humor. To laugh is one of the most important things in life. Humor got me through some hard times “

Bacall Bacall on.” I am the product of a working family “

Lauren Bacall came on 16 September 1924 as Betty Joan Perske in New York City to the world. She grew up with her mother, a secretary in the Bronx. “I am the product of a working family,” she said, not without pride. “I was not born into wealth. We were middle class, but had brains. “From the age of 16 Bacall worked as a model, by the way she was an usher in a Broadway theater. The influential critic George G. Nathan appointed in his year-end list in the magazine “Esquire” to “best usherette”. “We did not know, he must have seen me as I ran through the audience crowd and shouted, your tickets, please ‘!” She hated the modeling, brought it but on the cover of “Harper’s Bazaar” and was the fashion editor Diana Vreeland for her “natural look” liked. It was these recordings that brought the 19-year-old Hollywood. “The photos that did make Vreeland for Harper’s Bazaar from me, came very quickly. These were the images that saw Howard Hawks. They liked him, he wanted this look. Hawks, one of the greatest directors of this era, turned “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” with Bacall. Why it remained with him in these two films? Bacall: “It was the jealousy of Hawks”. The filmmakers could not bear that Bacall and Bogart became a couple in front of his eyes.

Lauren Bacall lived in the famed Dakota building in New York’s Central Park. There she had moved in 1961, she lived there longer than any of its neighbors. Roman Polanski turned in the house its horror thriller “Rosemary’s Baby”. Was the Dakota Building reason for making an eerie place? “Why not? I beg you, that’s a movie! Okay, there are bad things happening there. John Lennon was shot dead outside the Dakota Building. Therefore, fans gather to this day there, sometimes it’s like a freak show. I knew Lennon, he was a wonderful man. Yoko Ono still lives in the Dakota Building. A lovely person. “On Tuesday Lauren Bacall died of a stroke in her home, her family announced. She was 89 years old.