Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
Just 19 when Bacall first met Bogart, who was an acclaimed Hollywood star by then and 25 years her senior, Bacall confessed in her 1978 memoir, By Myself, that "there was no clap of thunder, no lightning bolt" when she first laid eyes on him.
It was 1943 and the pair were to star together in To Have and Have Not, but Bacall was nervous about the production and soon found herself turning to Bogart for support.On their first day of shooting she kept shaking, so he told her to tuck her chin down to hide it, forcing her to look up at him in what became her famous "Look".The duo quickly became friendly and as the film was shot uniquely in chronological order, it captured the blossoming connection between them. And what a connection it was.
Just three weeks into filming, the pair shared their first kiss – in Bacall's dressing room after a day of filming – and he later asked for her phone number, which she famously scribbled on the back of a matchbook.He wed Bacall in a small ceremony at a friend's farm in Ohio.When she walked down the aisle he greeted her with "Hello, baby", to which Bacall replied "Oh, goody". Bogart even cried as they exchanged vows.
Later she did give up many career opportunities to raise their family and serve a "traditional" role as wife and mother, something "old-fashioned" Bogart was somewhat insistent on.In the 11 years they were married, Bacall focused on their children and supporting Bogart, letting her career take a backseat in a choice many modern women would consider surprising.
But their good days weren't to last, and in 1956 Bogart was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus, dying less than a year later on 14 January, 1957.Just 32 when Bacall became a widow.She died in 2014, aged 89, and joked just three years before her death that – despite the half-century since his passing – Bogart was still tied to her.
Some movies they filmed together : To Have and Have Not ( 1944), The Big Sleep (1946) , Dark Passage (1947)
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