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INTRODUCTION |
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HER
STORY |
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TRIVIA |
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NICKNAME |
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GALLERY |
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CURIOS |
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VOX
POPULI |
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SHOP |
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When
Bogart and Bacall married his first present to her was a cigarette
box. It was inscribed, "For Mrs. Me, who need never whistle for
Bogie." |
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She
tries on dresses size 12 and buys them size 16. Her theory is that
the looser clothes are on you, the thinner you look. |
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She
once called up Shelley Winters whose husband, Tony Franciosa she was
having an affair with, and said, "I've been waiting for Tony
for an hour. Where the hell is he?" "Lauren," Shelley
replied, "you're complaining to me because my husband is late
for a date with you?" "Well, dear," Lauren said,
"if your husband doesn't respect your marriage, why should
I?" |
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She
claims there has never been a taste quite as good as a hot pastrami
sandwich on rye bread with coleslaw. |
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All
good things and bad, all big things in her life happened on a
Tuesday or a Wednesday. |
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In
1953 she was invited to place her feet in the cement at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre. She declined and was never asked again. |
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In
New York she was known as "The Windmill" because of her
swinging walk and long arms and legs; also "Pinwheel." |
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She
hid the fact that she was Jewish for years fearing it would hinder
her career. |
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Her daughter Leslie was named after movie great Leslie Howard who gave
Humphrey Bogart his start in the movie 'The Petrified Forest'. |
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She
was born in 1924, the same year her future husband Humphrey Bogart got
married for the first time. |
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Former
occupation : lingerie shop assistant. |
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Was
discovered in 1945 when Howard Hawks saw her portrait in a magazine and
screen-tested her for 'To Have And Have Not'. |
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Came
close to marrying Frank Sinatra. |
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Heads
to Marks & Spencer the moment she arrives in London. |
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Has
a mischievous talent for turning even executives into minions. |
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For
the past 30 years, she has lived in the Dakota apartments in New York,
where John Lennon was shot. |
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Her
relationship with Humphrey Bogart was highly sexual. On set for 'To Have
and Have Not' (1945), where she and Bogart (then married to his third wife Mayo
Methot) first got together, director Hawks would call breaks in filming to
allow the couple to disperse the sexual energy between them. They would
emerge later from Bogart's dressing room, flushed and smiling, then
filming would continue. |
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She's
a grandmother five times over and has pictures of all her grandchildren
dotingly held in her Filofax. |
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Lauren has a
daughter and a son from her marriage to Humphrey Bogart.
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Provides voice-overs for Carnival Cruise Lines television.
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Quit smoking - says she
hasn't smoked in 13 years.
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Books |
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