Bogie & Bacall

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Slim darling, you came along and into my arms and into my heart...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:50:07 -0400

Slim darling, you came along and into my arms and into my heart and all the real true love I have is yours – and now I’m afraid you won’t understand and that you’ll become impatient and that I’ll lose you – but even if that happened, I wouldn’t stop loving you for you are my last love and all the rest of my life I shall love you and watch you and be ready to help you should you ever need help.

All the nice things I do each day would be so much sweeter and so much gayer if you were with me. I find myself saying a hundred times a day, ‘If Slim could only see that’ or ‘I wish Slim could hear this.’ I want to make a new life with you – I want all the friends I’ve lost to meet you and know you and love you as I do – and live again with you, for the past years have been terribly tough, damn near drove me crazy. You’ll soon be here, Baby, and when you come you’ll bring everything that’s important to me in this world with you.

— Humphrey Bogart’s letter to Lauren Bacall

vintagesonia: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on holiday in...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:26:22 -0400

vintagesonia:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on holiday in Venice, 1951

inessentialhouses: MAY 21, 1945: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren...

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:01:04 -0400

inessentialhouses:

MAY 21, 1945: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are married

“As I glanced at Bogie, I saw tears streaming down his face - his ‘I do’ was strong and clear, though. As Judge Shettler said, ‘I now pronounce you man and wife,’ Bogie and I turned toward each other - he leaned to kiss me - I shyly turned my cheek - all those eyes watching made me very self-conscious. He said, ‘Hello, Baby.’ I hugged him and was reported to have said, ‘Oh, goody.’ Hard to believe, but maybe I did. Everyone hugged and kissed everyone else and more tears were shed. Bogie said it was when he heard the beautiful words of the ceremony and realized what they meant - what they should mean - that he cried.”

5to1: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:37:22 -0400

5to1:

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart

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While filming To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart became...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:35:35 -0500

While filming To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart became enchanted with Lauren Bacall. This became apparent, according to Bacall, about three weeks into the shooting of the picture. Immediately it presented problems, because Bogart was still married to Mayo Methot, who was as watchful and as jealous as ever. A few weeks earlier, when he was congratulating Bacall on her screen test (which consisted of the famous ‘If you want me, just whistle’ scene), his prescient comment had been ‘We’ll have a lot of fun together,’ but for a while it seemed as if fun was the last thing on their agenda: they would drive their cars to secluded residential streets and sit holding hands and talking, or write each other long, ardent, frustrated letters. And when shooting on To Have and Have Not was over, they had no further excuse for being together. Fortunately fate was quick to step in, in the kindly guise of Howard Hawks and Warners executives, who were so pleased with the on-screen chemistry between the two stars that they decided to waste no time before pairing them again. In October 1944 they began filming their second film The Big Sleep where they resumed their affair with a vengeance.

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missavagardner: My first morning home I was having breakfast...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:49:53 -0500

missavagardner:

My first morning home I was having breakfast in bed when Bogie went off to work. Before he left, he stopped in to see his son—I had the intercom on and suddenly heard in a soft, new voice, ‘Hello, son. You’re a little fella, aren’t you? I’m Father. Welcome home.’ It was so unexpected, so moving. He’d never been faced with a tiny creature of his own before. He wasn’t sure what to say to him or how to say it. He was just letting him know that he was there—that he’d do his best and was glad to have him. Lucky Steve. Lucky me. —Lauren Bacall: By Myself and Then Some.

missavagardner: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart at home,...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:46:53 -0500

missavagardner:

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart at home, 1945.

missavagardner: Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart at the...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:09:31 -0500

missavagardner:

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart at the premiere of ‘How To Marry a Millionaire’, 1953.

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swintons: Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall riding a gondola...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:14:52 -0500

swintons:

Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall riding a gondola in Venice, Italy.

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It was all clear blue sky all the way-as I was sure our life...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:41:29 -0500

It was all clear blue sky all the way-as I was sure our life would be. I couldn’t forget Bogie’s tears. Every time I looked at him I welled up. How had I lived before him? I couldn’t remember my life before him—it all ran together, like watercolors. It seemed that everything that had ever happened to me had led to this day with him. I don’t know whether it was his particular personality, his strength and purity of thought, or whether all brides feel that way. Probably a combination. I had no doubt that this happiness would last forever. I could not imagine living a minute without him. From now on I would not have to—we were together now, like the man said, “till death do you part”.