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(1940s) Lauren Bacall
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Lauren Bacall
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<p>(October 23, 1944)
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<p> Lauren Bacall has cinema personality to burn, and she burns
both ends against an unusually little middle. Her personality
is compounded partly of percolated Davis, Garbo, West, Dietrich,
Harlow and Glenda Farrell, but more than enough of it is
completely new to the screen. She has a javelinlike vitality,
a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female
shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness. With these faculties,
plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she
manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate
Hollywood has dreamed of in a long, long while.
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<p> Her lines have been neatly tailored to her talents. They
include such easy lines of cryptic folk poetry as "Was ya ever
bit by a dead bee?" An even easier line, sure to bring down any
decently vulgar house, is her comment on Bogart's second,
emboldened kiss: "It's even better when you help." Besides good
lines, there are good situations and songs for Newcomer Bacall.
She does a wickedly good job of sizing up male prospects in a
low bar, growls a louche song more suggestively than anyone in
cinema has dared since Mae West in She Done Him Wrong (1933).</p>
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