THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: hedgie on 12 Aug 2014, 19:04
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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-dies-at-89
This is not the best weeks for film icons, and she was certainly one of the all-time greats.
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I think this qualifies for the "third", as the first was that kid in New York at the tire of Tony Stewart.
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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-dies-at-89
This is not the best weeks for film icons, and she was certainly one of the all-time greats.
Even if she'd bowed out after the work she did with Bogart she'd be a legend.
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Even if she'd bowed out after the work she did with Bogart she'd be a legend.
Well... Arguably it was all downhill from there. From "To Have And Have Not" or "Key Largo" to "Blood Alley" or "Northwest Frontier" was a long step down. That does have something to do with the shortage of roles for women in Hollywood, though, then as now.
Definitely a true legend though.
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Weird. I've seen SO MANY old movies, but barely any with her. MAYBE How to Marry a Millionaire?
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Whoa I missed this connection.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/12/lauren_bacall_was_last_living_icon_name_dropped_in_madonna_s_vogue.html?wpisrc=obnetwork
Everyone from Madonna's Vogue is gone.
Greta Garbo (April 15, 1990)
Marilyn Monroe (Aug. 5, 1962)
Marlene Dietrich (May 6, 1992)
Joe DiMaggio (March 8, 1999)
Marlon Brando (July 1, 2004)
James Dean (Sept. 30, 1955)
Grace Kelly (Sept. 14, 1982)
Jean Harlow (June 7, 1937)
Gene Kelly (Feb. 2, 1996)
Fred Astaire (June 2, 1987)
Ginger Rogers (April 25, 1995)
Rita Hayworth (May 14, 1987)
Lauren Bacall (Aug. 12, 2014)
Katharine Hepburn (June 29, 2003)
Lana Turner (June 29, 1995)
Bette Davis (Oct. 6, 1989)
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Darn.