The actress received a Golden Globe and an honorary Oscar and appeared in scores of film and TV productions. [...] not until 1996 did she receive an Academy Award nomination — as supporting actress for her role as Barbra Streisand's mother in "The Mirror Has Two Faces." Bacall would outlive her first husband by more than 50 years, but never outlived their legend, which began in their first movie together, To Have or Have Not, when she uttered to Bogart among the sultriest lines in Hollywood history (in part because of that come-hither delivery): You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. After Bogart's death, she continued to forge her own distinct path. Diana Vreeland, the famed editor of Harper's Bazaar, recognized the slender, long-limbed actress as ideal for fashion modeling. The wife of film director Howard Hawks recommended her for movies, and Bacall went to Hollywood under a contract. The quarter century age difference (he called her "Baby") failed to deter them, but Bogart was still married to his third wife, the mercurial actress Mayo Methot. Few could forget the picture of her slouched on top of a piano, legs bare and dangling, while Harry Truman (then vice president) was seated in front of the keys. [...] she was memorably obstinate in an all-star film adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express," co-starred with longtime friend Anjelica Huston in "Mr.
Comment on Bacall's legend more than just acting and Bogart
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:50pm
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