Lauren Bacall

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0:00:14 > 0:00:17The talent, the looks, the voice.

0:00:19 > 0:00:23For movie-goers in the 1940s, Lauren Bacall had it all.

0:00:23 > 0:00:27And if that wasn't enough, she also had Humphrey Bogart.

0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hollywood's ultimate couple.

0:00:30 > 0:00:35They met on the set of the classic 1944 film To Have and Have Not.

0:00:36 > 0:00:39Aged just 19, Bacall had won the part

0:00:39 > 0:00:43after being spotted on the front of Harper's Bazaar magazine

0:00:43 > 0:00:46by the wife of the film's director, Howard Hawks.

0:00:47 > 0:00:50Her performance caused a sensation,

0:00:50 > 0:00:53making her an international star overnight.

0:00:53 > 0:00:58Even decades later, the chemistry between her and Bogart

0:00:58 > 0:01:02would fascinate an interviewer like Michael Parkinson.

0:01:02 > 0:01:04The core of the story is of a young,

0:01:04 > 0:01:06New York Jewish girl who dreamed of being a star,

0:01:06 > 0:01:10and became one at the age of 18 when Howard Hawks cast her alongside

0:01:10 > 0:01:13Humphrey Bogart in a film called To Have And Have Not.

0:01:13 > 0:01:16And he created something which became known as The Look,

0:01:16 > 0:01:19unwittingly starting one of Hollywood's great love stories

0:01:19 > 0:01:22and manufacturing a moment of cinema that's as fresh today

0:01:22 > 0:01:25as when it happened, 35 years ago.

0:01:31 > 0:01:33Anybody got a match?

0:01:46 > 0:01:48MATCH STRIKES

0:01:54 > 0:01:55Thanks.

0:01:55 > 0:01:58APPLAUSE

0:01:58 > 0:02:02I wish you hadn't mentioned how many years ago it was, Michael.

0:02:02 > 0:02:04- It was 35 years ago. - But I was only two 35 years ago!

0:02:04 > 0:02:05LAUGHTER

0:02:05 > 0:02:06How did that happen?

0:02:06 > 0:02:09Was that contrived, The Look, or was it accidental?

0:02:09 > 0:02:11Well, it was a result of my nerves

0:02:11 > 0:02:14which, if you look very closely, you might see again.

0:02:14 > 0:02:18That I used to shake so much that my head used to shake

0:02:18 > 0:02:22and, you know, in a film, when a director says "action"

0:02:22 > 0:02:25there's dead silence on a set,

0:02:25 > 0:02:28so all eyes are on you, and everything depends upon you.

0:02:28 > 0:02:33And I was such a nervous wreck that I discovered, finally,

0:02:33 > 0:02:36that one way to hold my head still was to hold it down,

0:02:36 > 0:02:40and then the back of my neck got so stiff that nothing would move...

0:02:42 > 0:02:43..and look up.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45And that became The Look.

0:02:45 > 0:02:50But it was that, combined with Howard Hawks's terrific eye,

0:02:50 > 0:02:53and knowing that if the camera was in a certain position

0:02:53 > 0:02:55and there were shadows in the right place -

0:02:55 > 0:02:57which I could do with right now, as a matter of fact...

0:02:57 > 0:02:59LAUGHTER

0:02:59 > 0:03:05It... I mean, it was a combination of what he saw and my panic.

0:03:05 > 0:03:08But how much of what came over, that sultry, sexy,

0:03:08 > 0:03:11sort of worldly look, was the real you at that time?

0:03:11 > 0:03:14- None of it.- No, cos you were, in fact, 18, weren't you?

0:03:14 > 0:03:18I mean, what can you be, you know, when you're 18 years old

0:03:18 > 0:03:24and you know nothing and you have very limited acting experience,

0:03:24 > 0:03:27almost none, and very little life experience?

0:03:27 > 0:03:30- I mean, how sophisticated can you be, for heaven's sakes?- Yeah.

0:03:30 > 0:03:33But if you have a deep voice, and Howard Hawks writes your dialogue

0:03:33 > 0:03:37and directs you and lights you correctly and...

0:03:37 > 0:03:38I mean, you can be anything.

0:03:38 > 0:03:42What was charming about your book, actually, about your early years,

0:03:42 > 0:03:44was this obsession you had about becoming a film star.

0:03:44 > 0:03:46You were really starstruck from an early age.

0:03:46 > 0:03:48But I didn't really want to be a film star.

0:03:48 > 0:03:50- I wanted to be on the stage.- On the stage.

0:03:50 > 0:03:52But I wanted my name in lights, I wanted...

0:03:52 > 0:03:55That dream, I don't know where I got it from because,

0:03:55 > 0:04:00as you know from the book, no-one in my family even came close

0:04:00 > 0:04:04to being in the theatre, or anything in the entertainment world.

0:04:04 > 0:04:08And I was just... I don't know. I just had to do it,

0:04:08 > 0:04:11and I would have done anything, almost anything,

0:04:11 > 0:04:13and I did almost anything...

0:04:13 > 0:04:14LAUGHTER

0:04:14 > 0:04:15..to be recognised.

0:04:15 > 0:04:18You say, of course, that your first ambition was to go on the stage.

0:04:18 > 0:04:20But, in fact, your great heroine at the time

0:04:20 > 0:04:22was a film star, wasn't she?

0:04:22 > 0:04:25Well, of course, because, I mean, films were accessible to me.

0:04:25 > 0:04:26I mean, when I was a kid,

0:04:26 > 0:04:28it was about 20 cents to get into a movie house.

0:04:28 > 0:04:31I mean, to go to the theatre was just so expensive.

0:04:31 > 0:04:33I could never possibly have afforded that.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36Did you think that you had the proper physical attributes

0:04:36 > 0:04:39at the time, when you were 16, 17, to become a film star?

0:04:39 > 0:04:44Oh, Michael, you know I didn't! I was flat-chested and...

0:04:44 > 0:04:45large of foot!

0:04:45 > 0:04:48And...very gawky.

0:04:50 > 0:04:51No, I didn't. And I thought...

0:04:51 > 0:04:54I mean, I always was shy about smiling,

0:04:54 > 0:04:56because my teeth were crooked and...

0:04:56 > 0:04:58God, I don't know, I was a mess!

0:04:58 > 0:05:00I don't know how any of this ever happened.

0:05:00 > 0:05:01LAUGHTER

0:05:01 > 0:05:02And, of course, I mean, you had the looks.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04You can't have been as bad-looking as all that

0:05:04 > 0:05:07because you became a very famous model in America,

0:05:07 > 0:05:09- which is how you got into...- Yes, but that was luck and that was...

0:05:09 > 0:05:12I mean, also, you know, if you're photographed by the right person

0:05:12 > 0:05:15- at the right time, the right way, you look OK.- Yeah, yeah.

0:05:15 > 0:05:18I don't say I was ugly, but I was sure no raving beauty, I'll tell you.

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Yeah. You...

0:05:20 > 0:05:23In the book, the most fascinating chapters,

0:05:23 > 0:05:27and best written, in my view, are the ones which you recount your...

0:05:27 > 0:05:30- Careful! - ..relationship - no - with Bogie.

0:05:30 > 0:05:32It is the centrepiece of the book.

0:05:32 > 0:05:36And, obviously, the man had a profound and lasting effect

0:05:36 > 0:05:38- on your life.- Absolutely. - And I'm delighted that...

0:05:38 > 0:05:41I remember the last time that you came on my show,

0:05:41 > 0:05:43you said that being a widow is not a profession.

0:05:43 > 0:05:46You didn't like talking about that part of your life.

0:05:46 > 0:05:48But you've written about it beautifully well, actually.

0:05:48 > 0:05:51And what comes across, actually, about the man

0:05:51 > 0:05:53is that he was a rare man.

0:05:53 > 0:05:56I mean, in that town, he was a very uncompromising character.

0:05:56 > 0:05:58- That must be very, very difficult to have been that...- Yes.

0:05:58 > 0:06:00- ..to maintain that stance. - Right.

0:06:00 > 0:06:05To be honest, in a town that is full of "hello, darling" and...

0:06:06 > 0:06:09..icing on the cake, you know, saying that everything is wonderful

0:06:09 > 0:06:11and all the films that are wonderful,

0:06:11 > 0:06:14it was very difficult to tell the truth.

0:06:14 > 0:06:19Most people in Hollywood really did not want to hear the truth

0:06:19 > 0:06:22- if it was negative.- Yes. - I mean, only positive.

0:06:22 > 0:06:25And Bogie, of course, didn't understand that.

0:06:25 > 0:06:30- He was incapable of telling a lie, he really was.- Yes.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32How difficult did he find it, though, to live with

0:06:32 > 0:06:35the screen image that he had of being the tough man, the hard man?

0:06:35 > 0:06:38Well, I mean, that is something that...

0:06:39 > 0:06:42I mean, there's nothing you can do to erase an image.

0:06:42 > 0:06:47Once you have made a hit in a role, in a certain kind of role,

0:06:47 > 0:06:52in films, there is no way to lose that identity.

0:06:52 > 0:06:54I mean, people just see you that way.

0:06:54 > 0:06:58And, of course, in New York,

0:06:58 > 0:07:03you go to a nightclub, or even a restaurant for dinner,

0:07:03 > 0:07:05and some drunk would walk over and say,

0:07:05 > 0:07:07"Oh, so you think you're tough, are you?"

0:07:07 > 0:07:11And he would just turn around, and if he'd had a couple of drinks,

0:07:11 > 0:07:12he'd say, "Yeah!"

0:07:12 > 0:07:14I mean, he'd start playing the part

0:07:14 > 0:07:16which had nothing to do with him whatever.

0:07:16 > 0:07:17LAUGHTER

0:07:17 > 0:07:20Just leading him up to the brink, you know.

0:07:20 > 0:07:21He was terrific at brinksmanship,

0:07:21 > 0:07:24I mean, until the moment the guy was ready to punch him,

0:07:24 > 0:07:27because then Bogie'd start laughing because he knew that,

0:07:27 > 0:07:30if it came to fisticuffs, that was out of the question!

0:07:30 > 0:07:33He couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag.

0:07:33 > 0:07:35LAUGHTER

0:07:35 > 0:07:38How difficult did you find it, also, for yourself?

0:07:38 > 0:07:40Because you were created in an image, weren't you,

0:07:40 > 0:07:41from your very first film?

0:07:41 > 0:07:45How difficult was it for you to get rid of it, live up to?

0:07:45 > 0:07:47Well, I've had that problem all my life,

0:07:47 > 0:07:49I mean, all my professional life,

0:07:49 > 0:07:53that people have seen me in a certain way -

0:07:53 > 0:07:56I think I make that very clear in the book,

0:07:56 > 0:07:58even including today -

0:07:58 > 0:08:02that I am looked upon as a woman

0:08:02 > 0:08:04who's in total control and command of every situation,

0:08:04 > 0:08:07that I don't need anyone and that I've got all the answers,

0:08:07 > 0:08:08it's all very sharp,

0:08:08 > 0:08:10just like all those parts I played.

0:08:10 > 0:08:15Well, as we all know, no-one's that sure of themselves, I don't think.

0:08:15 > 0:08:17And if they are, I don't want to meet them.

0:08:17 > 0:08:18LAUGHTER

0:08:18 > 0:08:20I mean, it's... You know, it's...

0:08:20 > 0:08:26It's very tough to just walk into any room, privately,

0:08:26 > 0:08:29and have someone decide what you're all about.

0:08:29 > 0:08:33Are you nervous because you know what to expect,

0:08:33 > 0:08:35their reaction to you when you get in there,

0:08:35 > 0:08:39or are you nervous because you don't know what the reaction will be?

0:08:39 > 0:08:41- You mean, walking into a room? - Yes, what I'm saying is that...

0:08:41 > 0:08:44Well, I'm nerv... I don't know, I'm just nervous. I don't know.

0:08:44 > 0:08:49- Yeah, yeah.- I mean, I don't analyse it. It's just that it's...

0:08:51 > 0:08:55I suppose, in our society, it's becoming less difficult all the time.

0:08:55 > 0:08:58But it is not easy to walk into a room by yourself.

0:09:00 > 0:09:04And it is twice as difficult if you walk into a room

0:09:04 > 0:09:09and people have preconceived notions of what you are and so, I mean,

0:09:09 > 0:09:12I'm immediately on the defensive, so I have to live up to that.

0:09:12 > 0:09:15What's interesting, actually, in the book also

0:09:15 > 0:09:19is the conflict that's run right through your life,

0:09:19 > 0:09:23about whether or not you marry and devote yourself to a man,

0:09:23 > 0:09:25or whether you go on with a career.

0:09:25 > 0:09:27And it seemed to me that you always took the option

0:09:27 > 0:09:30for companionship, for the man, rather than your...

0:09:30 > 0:09:31- Yes, but that's over.- That's over?

0:09:31 > 0:09:34- I'm not doing that any more, Michael.- You're not?- No.

0:09:34 > 0:09:36I don't believe... You can never say never,

0:09:36 > 0:09:38because there's no such thing as "I'll never do anything again".

0:09:38 > 0:09:40Who knows? I'll turn around tomorrow

0:09:40 > 0:09:43and some fascinating creature will drop from heaven and that'll be it!

0:09:43 > 0:09:46But I don't expect that to happen. I just...

0:09:46 > 0:09:50I will feel better, I think,

0:09:50 > 0:09:54just concentrating on work, friends, whatever happens.

0:09:54 > 0:09:58I'm very open to everything, but I love to work,

0:09:58 > 0:10:01and I really think work is the most important thing in life.

0:10:01 > 0:10:06- I think using oneself is more important than anything.- Yes.

0:10:06 > 0:10:09Being aware and awake and knowing what's going on.

0:10:09 > 0:10:12At the end of the book, you say something very interesting,

0:10:12 > 0:10:15Toward the end you say that, now you've written all about yourself,

0:10:15 > 0:10:16that you found out that you

0:10:16 > 0:10:18"Don't like everything I know about myself."

0:10:18 > 0:10:20- No.- You don't specify, though, you see.

0:10:20 > 0:10:22And I wondered what it was that you...

0:10:22 > 0:10:24Well, I have faced...

0:10:24 > 0:10:30When you start reviewing your life, you have to face your shortcomings.

0:10:30 > 0:10:34And you can't just shove them under the rug any more.

0:10:36 > 0:10:37I don't like...

0:10:39 > 0:10:44I don't like moments of envy that I have, you know, as far as...

0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Professionally? - Professionally, yes.

0:10:46 > 0:10:47I don't like...

0:10:47 > 0:10:51I don't admire at all in myself

0:10:51 > 0:10:55my not having the courage to stand up to Hawks

0:10:55 > 0:10:59every time he made a crack about the Jews.

0:10:59 > 0:11:01I don't feel good about that.

0:11:01 > 0:11:03And I would... And I...

0:11:03 > 0:11:06It took me many years before I could deal with that.

0:11:06 > 0:11:09Many years. It was very, very difficult.

0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Was there much anti-Semitism in... - No. It wasn't that.

0:11:12 > 0:11:16It was just that each time every one thing would happen,

0:11:16 > 0:11:19I mean, it became such a...

0:11:19 > 0:11:22They made such a to-do about it because of the fact that,

0:11:22 > 0:11:26in their eyes, I didn't look Jewish, and so they were so stunned.

0:11:26 > 0:11:29"I can't believe it! Can you believe that's true? Look at that girl!

0:11:29 > 0:11:31"She doesn't look..."

0:11:31 > 0:11:34And so I always felt that I was singled out and set apart

0:11:34 > 0:11:37and that I had additional obstacles to overcome.

0:11:37 > 0:11:43It became a weight around my neck and I hated the fact that I felt that.

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Yes.

0:11:45 > 0:11:47You felt you had to go to people beforehand because you didn't

0:11:47 > 0:11:50look Jewish and say, "By the way, I'm Jewish, just in case..."

0:11:50 > 0:11:54- Well, I did to Bogie.- You did? - But I didn't professionally.

0:11:54 > 0:11:57And that is what I don't like about myself,

0:11:57 > 0:11:58the fact that I did not say,

0:11:58 > 0:12:02"Now, just a minute, you may as well know it now."

0:12:02 > 0:12:03I mean, I wasn't that terrific,

0:12:03 > 0:12:07I was not that gutsy, and I wasn't that honest about it.

0:12:07 > 0:12:10I was terrified that maybe I would lose my job,

0:12:10 > 0:12:12and I didn't have the courage to deal with it.

0:12:12 > 0:12:15What about now? Do you still feel, you know,

0:12:15 > 0:12:19uneasy when somebody makes an anti-Semitic remark in your company?

0:12:19 > 0:12:21- I do.- You do?- Of course I do.

0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Do you now, though? - Well, now, I mean, now...

0:12:24 > 0:12:26It's out, folks. I mean, forget it. Now...

0:12:26 > 0:12:28I mean, I don't know.

0:12:28 > 0:12:30But it's so much pleasanter to...

0:12:32 > 0:12:33I mean, to just not have to...

0:12:33 > 0:12:36Why should I have to worry about my religion? I mean, that's so...

0:12:36 > 0:12:38That's nothing to do with what anybody is.

0:12:38 > 0:12:40I mean, it's what you...

0:12:40 > 0:12:44I mean, you're born the way you're born, and you live the way you live.

0:12:44 > 0:12:47And why should I be judged for something that...

0:12:47 > 0:12:50- when people don't know me? - The other interesting thing,

0:12:50 > 0:12:55that conclusion you come to, is to do with your age,

0:12:55 > 0:12:57and to do with, particularly, the...

0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Oh, you always do this to me, Michael.- No, I don't!

0:12:59 > 0:13:00LAUGHTER

0:13:00 > 0:13:03You did it last time. Don't you remember when I dropped the lighter,

0:13:03 > 0:13:04you said something about my...

0:13:04 > 0:13:07No, that wasn't me. That was another interviewer.

0:13:07 > 0:13:08LAUGHTER

0:13:08 > 0:13:10Oh, no it wasn't, Michael. I never forget!

0:13:10 > 0:13:11OK. Press on.

0:13:11 > 0:13:14You made the remark, and it's absolutely true,

0:13:14 > 0:13:15that in American society, particularly,

0:13:15 > 0:13:17that a woman of 26 is reckoned to be,

0:13:17 > 0:13:19professionally, and every other way,

0:13:19 > 0:13:22- on the downward slope. - On the skids. Yes!

0:13:22 > 0:13:26- And that can't give you any great comfort.- No.

0:13:26 > 0:13:28LAUGHTER

0:13:28 > 0:13:31That also is the understatement of the century, yes.

0:13:31 > 0:13:32LAUGHTER

0:13:32 > 0:13:34No, it doesn't give me any great comfort,

0:13:34 > 0:13:39- but I will fight to the death my right to work!- Absolutely.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41- No, but it's... - But not to be judged.

0:13:41 > 0:13:44I hate the fact that there's a number next to everybody's name,

0:13:44 > 0:13:47that that puts you in a certain category.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50I mean, there are people of 40 that are ancient!

0:13:51 > 0:13:54I mean, I know a man, one of the men that I was involved with

0:13:54 > 0:13:57in my book was 15 years my junior,

0:13:57 > 0:13:59who's too old for me, I'll tell you that!

0:13:59 > 0:14:02But how much are you swimming against the tide in that field?

0:14:02 > 0:14:04Well, I think that... I think that...

0:14:04 > 0:14:07Categorising has always existed, and I think it is...

0:14:07 > 0:14:10- I think it also does exist here, to a degree.- Oh, surely. Absolutely.

0:14:10 > 0:14:13You know, there's a number next to your name here, as well.

0:14:13 > 0:14:16Is it The Times where they were always saying,

0:14:16 > 0:14:17"Today's your birthday and you're..."

0:14:17 > 0:14:20Wonderful to announce that to the world(!)

0:14:20 > 0:14:22- Who needs that?- Yes, yes.

0:14:22 > 0:14:26But I think to be judged that you are a certain way

0:14:26 > 0:14:30because you are 30 or 40 or 50 or 60

0:14:30 > 0:14:32is totally unfair.

0:14:32 > 0:14:35And why should we be so limited?

0:14:35 > 0:14:36Why should it...

0:14:36 > 0:14:39Why should age confine us and make us unable

0:14:39 > 0:14:42to spread our wings, I mean, if you're an actor,

0:14:42 > 0:14:45to play different kinds of parts, or whatever?

0:14:45 > 0:14:47It's particularly...

0:14:47 > 0:14:49Why do you have to retire because somebody says that you...

0:14:49 > 0:14:51cos you've reached 62 and you must retire?

0:14:51 > 0:14:54But women, particularly, are vulnerable

0:14:54 > 0:14:56to this kind of thinking, aren't they?

0:14:56 > 0:14:58- Yes, but I think it's affected men, as well.- Yes.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00I think men that have been asked,

0:15:00 > 0:15:03or feel that they must retire from a job that they've held

0:15:03 > 0:15:07for 20 years because they've reached an age, a certain age,

0:15:07 > 0:15:09and don't want to retire and are not ready to retire,

0:15:09 > 0:15:12mentally or physically or anyway...

0:15:12 > 0:15:14I mean, certainly, it affects them badly.

0:15:14 > 0:15:17Retirement was never an option for Bacall.

0:15:18 > 0:15:22But she's always been frank about the fickle nature of fame

0:15:22 > 0:15:25and the pressure it brings, as she explains here,

0:15:25 > 0:15:27in an interview with Barry Norman.

0:15:27 > 0:15:28It's terrible to...

0:15:31 > 0:15:35..be 18 or 19 years old and have that kind of success

0:15:35 > 0:15:38when you are not prepared for it,

0:15:38 > 0:15:41when you are not equipped to deal with it,

0:15:41 > 0:15:45as I had had very little experience, acting experience.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48I mean, I wanted to be an actress and I studied for it,

0:15:48 > 0:15:50but I still had not done it enough.

0:15:50 > 0:15:54I mean, how much can you do by that age, you know? Not hell of a lot.

0:15:54 > 0:15:55So...

0:15:55 > 0:15:59And that kind of insanity that goes on,

0:15:59 > 0:16:02when you make that kind of an instant success,

0:16:02 > 0:16:08which is partially real, but also partially created

0:16:08 > 0:16:12by studio people, then, you know...

0:16:12 > 0:16:15Warner Bros had, um...

0:16:15 > 0:16:18as head of publicity, a man called Charlie Einfeld,

0:16:18 > 0:16:21who was one of the great publicity geniuses of all time.

0:16:21 > 0:16:26And he knew how to really make somebody, everyone, talk about you.

0:16:26 > 0:16:30And, I mean, I was in every magazine, on every cover, on everything.

0:16:30 > 0:16:32Too much.

0:16:32 > 0:16:36I remember arriving at Grand Central Station in New York

0:16:36 > 0:16:37from California,

0:16:37 > 0:16:40just after To Have and Have Not had been released,

0:16:40 > 0:16:46and Grand Central Station was packed with fans and police.

0:16:46 > 0:16:49Thousands and thousands of people.

0:16:49 > 0:16:51Now, I don't know how they got there,

0:16:51 > 0:16:54somebody from Warner Bros must have spread the word.

0:16:54 > 0:16:57I've no idea how it happened.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00But, I mean, when that happens to a 19-year-old girl, it's very scary.

0:17:00 > 0:17:02You just don't understand it.

0:17:02 > 0:17:05And were you expected to react in the slightly cynical,

0:17:05 > 0:17:08slightly tough, slightly wisecracking way

0:17:08 > 0:17:10that you appear in the film?

0:17:10 > 0:17:12I have no idea.

0:17:12 > 0:17:13By the time you made The Big Sleep,

0:17:13 > 0:17:15you and Humphrey Bogart were married.

0:17:15 > 0:17:18By the time it was released we were.

0:17:18 > 0:17:21Now, what influence did he have on your career

0:17:21 > 0:17:23and, indeed, on teaching you to act?

0:17:23 > 0:17:28Did he try to teach you, or did he encourage you to go your own way?

0:17:28 > 0:17:31He never tried to... I mean, he never gave me acting lessons.

0:17:32 > 0:17:35He never interfered in my career at all.

0:17:35 > 0:17:38He never tried to get me a part, he never...

0:17:39 > 0:17:42He never threw his weight around at all on my behalf.

0:17:42 > 0:17:44He felt that should be a separate thing.

0:17:44 > 0:17:46Umm...

0:17:46 > 0:17:48He occasionally...

0:17:48 > 0:17:50I remember once, in The Big Sleep -

0:17:50 > 0:17:52it was very funny -

0:17:52 > 0:17:54there was a scene where

0:17:54 > 0:17:56'the doorbell rang, and there was a shot of me

0:17:56 > 0:18:00'coming out of a room to go and answer the door, you see.

0:18:00 > 0:18:03'So we had a rehearsal in the scene for the camera.

0:18:03 > 0:18:06'And Howard Hawks yelled, you know, called, "Action!"

0:18:06 > 0:18:10'And I walked out of this door to, presumably, my bedroom,

0:18:10 > 0:18:12'to answer the front door.'

0:18:13 > 0:18:18'And before we did the take, Bogie took me to one side and said,

0:18:18 > 0:18:21'"You walked out of that room like a model!"

0:18:21 > 0:18:24'He said, "Always remember that you've come from somewhere."'

0:18:31 > 0:18:33Are you sure that she's going to be...

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Oh yeah, she'll be all right in the morning.

0:18:39 > 0:18:41Did you do this?

0:18:41 > 0:18:44That? Oh yes, that's a little special service

0:18:44 > 0:18:46I always provide all my clients.

0:18:46 > 0:18:48Including being intimate?

0:18:48 > 0:18:51'And that was, I suppose,

0:18:51 > 0:18:54'that was one of the things that made me aware that one must always think

0:18:54 > 0:18:58'before the take that you don't wait to think'

0:18:58 > 0:19:00once the cameras start to roll.

0:19:00 > 0:19:04You have to start to think before that, so that you know

0:19:04 > 0:19:08that something has preceded it, so that you're not a puppet, really.

0:19:09 > 0:19:11When you look back now on those...

0:19:11 > 0:19:14your early part of your life in Hollywood,

0:19:14 > 0:19:16does it seem real or does it seem like something

0:19:16 > 0:19:19that happened to somebody else whom you know?

0:19:20 > 0:19:22It seems very much as though it happened to somebody else.

0:19:22 > 0:19:24I mean, I know it happened to me.

0:19:24 > 0:19:29But, as I think of me then, it doesn't seem like me.

0:19:29 > 0:19:31I mean, I don't relate to it.

0:19:31 > 0:19:35I don't think about that life, except occasionally, when I think,

0:19:35 > 0:19:37"Did I really live like that?"

0:19:37 > 0:19:39I mean, "Was that really me living in that house?

0:19:39 > 0:19:42I mean, I remember experiencing all of it,

0:19:42 > 0:19:44and I remember being in all of the places that I was

0:19:44 > 0:19:46and with the people that I was,

0:19:46 > 0:19:52but it's so far from the way I've lived for the last 15 years.

0:19:52 > 0:19:56I get the impression that, after Bogart's death,

0:19:56 > 0:19:59your career never quite reached the same heights again.

0:19:59 > 0:20:02Now, is that true, and if so, is it coincidental,

0:20:02 > 0:20:05or was it simply because of the way the film industry was going?

0:20:05 > 0:20:09I think it's a very gracious way of putting it, on your part, actually.

0:20:09 > 0:20:13It never reached the heights again and it never will and that's it!

0:20:13 > 0:20:17And nobody cared, is what it really amounted to, except me.

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Umm...

0:20:18 > 0:20:19No, I think...

0:20:19 > 0:20:21You see, I was never...

0:20:21 > 0:20:26I don't think I was considered by a lot of people in films as an actress.

0:20:26 > 0:20:29I was thought of as Bogie's wife by a lot of people.

0:20:29 > 0:20:32"Oh, that terrific girl! Oh, his wife, blah, blah, blah."

0:20:32 > 0:20:35You know, and that was it.

0:20:35 > 0:20:38No-one ever thought that I cared that much about work, I don't think.

0:20:38 > 0:20:41I mean, you don't go around saying, "I want to work, I care about it..."

0:20:41 > 0:20:43RINGING

0:20:43 > 0:20:44Oh, hello!

0:20:44 > 0:20:46Umm...

0:20:48 > 0:20:50It just...

0:20:50 > 0:20:53They were still making films, and they were making good films,

0:20:53 > 0:20:55but they didn't want me in them.

0:20:56 > 0:20:59And, you know, I mean, with something...

0:20:59 > 0:21:04I do find in life that, when something devastating happens,

0:21:04 > 0:21:05it happens everywhere.

0:21:05 > 0:21:07I mean, it's...

0:21:07 > 0:21:11They really lay it on you when they want to, the world,

0:21:11 > 0:21:13whoever it is that's planning it.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17It's when your personal life is in the ash can,

0:21:17 > 0:21:19your career is, everything is.

0:21:20 > 0:21:21Well, I remember you said,

0:21:21 > 0:21:24I think about the time when you were going to appear in Applause,

0:21:24 > 0:21:29you said you'd had 13 years of bad luck, and I mean really bad luck.

0:21:29 > 0:21:34Well, my private life has certainly been a symphony of discord...

0:21:35 > 0:21:38..since Bogie's death, I would say. I mean, I don't think I've had...

0:21:40 > 0:21:44I don't know why. I mean, maybe I just attract disaster, I don't know.

0:21:44 > 0:21:48I hope not. But it seems to me that I have been unlucky.

0:21:48 > 0:21:52I think I have been. But I just... That's the way the world is.

0:21:52 > 0:21:55I mean, that's the way my world is. There's nothing I can do about it.

0:21:55 > 0:21:57But you also said once that you thought

0:21:57 > 0:21:59you'd lived your life backwards.

0:21:59 > 0:22:01That, at 20, you had all the things that most girls dream about,

0:22:01 > 0:22:04like a husband, wealth...

0:22:04 > 0:22:07- "Like a husband," yes! - ..wealth, a fascinating life,

0:22:07 > 0:22:10and that, now it's all gone, it won't come back again.

0:22:10 > 0:22:13Well, that's a very pessimistic note.

0:22:13 > 0:22:16I don't think it's pessimistic. I think it's true, actually.

0:22:16 > 0:22:19I mean, I think it's just those are the facts.

0:22:20 > 0:22:22I'm not particularly upset about it.

0:22:24 > 0:22:26But I say that, usually, I mean, you work,

0:22:26 > 0:22:29you start off, when you're young, you don't give a damn.

0:22:29 > 0:22:32It's not that important what things you have, is it, you know?

0:22:32 > 0:22:34Comforts and that kind of security

0:22:34 > 0:22:36you don't think of in terms of...

0:22:36 > 0:22:39You know, when you're 19 years old, it doesn't matter.

0:22:39 > 0:22:41But when you're older, you do think,

0:22:41 > 0:22:44"Gee, it'd be nice to have a little cushion,

0:22:44 > 0:22:45"not to have to worry about..."

0:22:45 > 0:22:50And, I mean, actually, I've had to work harder...

0:22:54 > 0:22:57..from Bogie's death on, since,

0:22:57 > 0:23:00and for ever, I would say, than I did before.

0:23:00 > 0:23:04Just, I mean, for not only survival, but just, I mean, to live.

0:23:04 > 0:23:09In the 1980s, Bacall was still gracing the talk shows,

0:23:09 > 0:23:11sharing stories about her fascinating past

0:23:11 > 0:23:14and her experience at the Warner Bros studios.

0:23:14 > 0:23:18I mean, I think that... I mean, Jack Warner's attitude was

0:23:18 > 0:23:21that actors were employees,

0:23:21 > 0:23:23and we did not consider that we were employees,

0:23:23 > 0:23:27and that he felt we should do as we were told.

0:23:27 > 0:23:32Unfortunately, he didn't have a lot of taste in choosing parts in films,

0:23:32 > 0:23:35so, if you wanted to do something better, you were in trouble.

0:23:35 > 0:23:37What happened is that you got into arguments

0:23:37 > 0:23:41and you ended up on suspension and didn't work for a while and...

0:23:41 > 0:23:44But even in spite of all of that,

0:23:44 > 0:23:49films then were wonderful, mostly terrific.

0:23:49 > 0:23:53And Warner Bros actually produced some of the best films ever made

0:23:53 > 0:23:57that will live for ever, long after some of today's films will.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00You don't think, then, that there was something to be said

0:24:00 > 0:24:04for this treatment of actors as if they were pieces of merchandise?

0:24:04 > 0:24:06Oh, no. No, no, no. I don't think there's ever

0:24:06 > 0:24:07anything to be said for that, no.

0:24:07 > 0:24:10No, I don't think there was, but I think that there were

0:24:10 > 0:24:13a lot of tremendously talented people making films then.

0:24:13 > 0:24:17I mean, the focus was totally in California.

0:24:17 > 0:24:20- It wasn't diffused by television, you see.- Is there...

0:24:20 > 0:24:24Do you detect a great difference between then and now

0:24:24 > 0:24:26and the making of films?

0:24:26 > 0:24:28Well, there's a tremendous difference,

0:24:28 > 0:24:30number one in cost, number one in the number of films,

0:24:30 > 0:24:33number one in the concentration of talent in one place

0:24:33 > 0:24:36that doesn't exist any more. Everyone is everywhere.

0:24:36 > 0:24:41I mean, you go where the work is. You seldom work where you live now.

0:24:41 > 0:24:43There still are some very talented people.

0:24:43 > 0:24:46I mean, there are some young, talented people in films,

0:24:46 > 0:24:48but I don't think as many.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50And they don't build stars to last,

0:24:50 > 0:24:53and I think television has done that.

0:24:53 > 0:24:55- No offence!- No, quite, quite!

0:24:55 > 0:24:58We're prepared to take the... We're prepared to take the sticks.

0:24:58 > 0:25:02Because, in fact, it's very difficult to become a film star now

0:25:02 > 0:25:04because people don't actually go out to movies,

0:25:04 > 0:25:07and you see people who are established feature players,

0:25:07 > 0:25:08but they're not...

0:25:08 > 0:25:11They don't become stars like they used to in the 40s and 50s.

0:25:11 > 0:25:13Well, they don't last, you see.

0:25:13 > 0:25:15Stars, to me, are people who last.

0:25:15 > 0:25:18Just to have your name over the title for five minutes

0:25:18 > 0:25:20is not a star, in my book, anyway. But I'm a...

0:25:21 > 0:25:23You were 19 when you were a star.

0:25:23 > 0:25:27- I was a wee girl, yeah. - Was it hard to handle?

0:25:27 > 0:25:32Well, it would have been harder to handle had I not had Bogie, I'm sure.

0:25:32 > 0:25:37And also, I had a very solid upbringing, so that I...

0:25:37 > 0:25:38I was...

0:25:38 > 0:25:41My feet were quite firmly planted on the ground.

0:25:41 > 0:25:42But it's pretty hard to keep your head

0:25:42 > 0:25:46- when people say that you are the sun, the moon AND the stars...- Yeah.

0:25:46 > 0:25:47..all rolled into one.

0:25:47 > 0:25:49Are you glad it happened to you then,

0:25:49 > 0:25:52rather than it would happen to you now?

0:25:52 > 0:25:54Well, I'm glad it happened at all!

0:25:54 > 0:25:55LAUGHTER

0:25:55 > 0:25:56I mean, you know, that...

0:25:56 > 0:25:58I think I'm lucky that it happened at all.

0:25:58 > 0:26:02Of course, as I was told once by a man called Moss Hart,

0:26:02 > 0:26:06who was a playwright, a fine playwright and director,

0:26:06 > 0:26:10after To Have and Have Not opened, he said, "You understand, of course,

0:26:10 > 0:26:12"that you have nowhere to go but down."

0:26:13 > 0:26:15And he was absolutely right.

0:26:15 > 0:26:18- I don't think that's true. - No, but it is true,

0:26:18 > 0:26:20because if you are...

0:26:20 > 0:26:22If you are praised beyond your capabilities,

0:26:22 > 0:26:24which new people very often are,

0:26:24 > 0:26:27there's no way you can live up to that praise.

0:26:27 > 0:26:31It's out of all proportion to anyone's ability, to any reality.

0:26:31 > 0:26:35Your original ambition was to work on the stage

0:26:35 > 0:26:38and, I think, probably - I may be wrong -

0:26:38 > 0:26:41you prefer it to working in the movies, working on stage?

0:26:41 > 0:26:45- No, I just prefer working to not working.- Well, yes!

0:26:45 > 0:26:47- If you had a choice?- I don't...

0:26:47 > 0:26:50Well, if I had a choice, I'd do both, I'd do everything,

0:26:50 > 0:26:53because I think one has to, and I think one should.

0:26:53 > 0:26:56And each medium has something different to offer.

0:26:56 > 0:27:01But the theatre, the thing that is the best thing about the theatre,

0:27:01 > 0:27:05is that it is happening then.

0:27:05 > 0:27:08It is now, it is live and it is more in an actor's control

0:27:08 > 0:27:12than film is, which is not at all in an actor's control.

0:27:12 > 0:27:16Of course, the best thing about film is that you have a better life,

0:27:16 > 0:27:19because it's not that relentless, eight shows a week

0:27:19 > 0:27:23and usually 52 weeks a year. I mean, you know, it's much...

0:27:23 > 0:27:26- You need stamina for the stage. - Yes, you do!

0:27:26 > 0:27:28You started out - well, your book says -

0:27:28 > 0:27:30by collaring producers, saying, "Use me, use me!

0:27:30 > 0:27:33"I'd be good in this kind of thing." Would you still do that?

0:27:33 > 0:27:34I had a lot of nerve.

0:27:34 > 0:27:37Well, I've tried but I'm so afraid of rejection, I can't!

0:27:37 > 0:27:38LAUGHTER

0:27:38 > 0:27:41As a young girl, you weren't afraid of the rejection,

0:27:41 > 0:27:45- it wouldn't have mattered?- I don't think you think of it, you know?

0:27:45 > 0:27:47I thought... Well, I had a hell of a lot of nerve, but I thought,

0:27:47 > 0:27:49"I don't care. I'm just going to press on and do it,

0:27:49 > 0:27:52"and what can they do? They can only say no."

0:27:52 > 0:27:56I suppose I would if I wanted to do something badly enough now, but I...

0:27:56 > 0:28:00I don't know. You get a little... One becomes very intimidated.

0:28:00 > 0:28:01- Really?- It's not easy.

0:28:01 > 0:28:03One can't envisage you being intimidated.

0:28:03 > 0:28:04- Oh, you can't?- No.

0:28:04 > 0:28:06Well, then you don't know human nature very well.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09No, I'm well-known for my lack of knowledge of human nature.

0:28:09 > 0:28:12I'm sorry about that, but no, it's...

0:28:12 > 0:28:17I mean, to think that what one is, professionally, is what one is

0:28:17 > 0:28:20is not, you know... That is not what we are, and to be...

0:28:22 > 0:28:26I mean, to present whatever persona I presented over the years

0:28:26 > 0:28:29because of parts that I've played has nothing to do with the way I am.

0:28:29 > 0:28:32I mean, finally, you do begin to become that a little bit, you know.

0:28:32 > 0:28:35- You are affected a little bit by it. - I'm interested...

0:28:35 > 0:28:40There's not a frail, weak, cowering woman, then, behind this facade?

0:28:40 > 0:28:44- No, but there's a very vulnerable, sensitive one.- Yeah.

0:28:44 > 0:28:45Definitely.

0:28:45 > 0:28:48Do you get offered many roles now? And what kind of roles do you...?

0:28:48 > 0:28:51Now, I'm not sure I'm crazy about that question.

0:28:51 > 0:28:53LAUGHTER

0:28:53 > 0:28:56- What kind of roles do you have in mind?- No, no, no! They don't...

0:28:56 > 0:28:59They don't allow me to offer anybody roles, even here in the BBC.

0:28:59 > 0:29:01But do you get offered interesting parts?

0:29:01 > 0:29:04Do you get offered many parts that you're interested in doing now?

0:29:04 > 0:29:07There are not many wonderful parts written for women.

0:29:07 > 0:29:10There are not many terrible parts written for women.

0:29:10 > 0:29:12There are not many parts written for women of any age.

0:29:14 > 0:29:17It is very difficult to find anything that is worth doing.

0:29:19 > 0:29:23We keep hoping it will change, and maybe it will.

0:29:23 > 0:29:26I hope so. It's hard. It's very hard.

0:29:26 > 0:29:29I mean, that's another reason that I stay on the stage,

0:29:29 > 0:29:33because I find that there is better stuff to do on stage

0:29:33 > 0:29:35than there is in film.

0:29:35 > 0:29:38Fortunately, notable roles kept coming,

0:29:38 > 0:29:41like the film Misery,

0:29:41 > 0:29:44and Barbara Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces,

0:29:44 > 0:29:49for which Bacall won a Best Actress Golden Globe award

0:29:49 > 0:29:51and an Oscar nomination.

0:29:51 > 0:29:56Then, in 2000, she appeared on the show Scene by Scene,

0:29:56 > 0:30:01joining Mark Cousins to look back and critique her career so far.

0:30:01 > 0:30:04I've got here the end of To Have and Have Not,

0:30:04 > 0:30:07- where you do this wiggle... - Oh, you like that wiggle!

0:30:07 > 0:30:09..which is one of the sexiest things in the movies.

0:30:13 > 0:30:16SHE LAUGHS

0:30:16 > 0:30:18It's so funny!

0:30:18 > 0:30:21- And Walter Brennan does the wee jig at the end, remember?- Yes.

0:30:21 > 0:30:22There he goes!

0:30:26 > 0:30:29- 'It doesn't look planned or choreographed.'- 'It wasn't.'

0:30:29 > 0:30:31'Did Howard Hawks tell you to do it?'

0:30:31 > 0:30:36'No, I did it spontaneously when we were rehearsing, and Howard liked it.

0:30:36 > 0:30:38'And they wanted me to do it.'

0:30:38 > 0:30:41Then I became a little self-conscious doing it!

0:30:41 > 0:30:44But because, you know, I studied dancing for 13 years,

0:30:44 > 0:30:46I wanted to be a dancer. So...

0:30:46 > 0:30:49And I... Not that I considered that really dancing,

0:30:49 > 0:30:53but any time I hear music, wiggling comes to mind!

0:30:55 > 0:30:58Well, you wiggle like a dream, I can tell you that!

0:30:58 > 0:31:01I've got a bit of bad news for you.

0:31:01 > 0:31:05And the bad news is that I've got a clip here of Confidential.

0:31:05 > 0:31:07Oh!

0:31:07 > 0:31:08Oh, I'm killing you!

0:31:08 > 0:31:11I hate my own father for 1,000 reasons.

0:31:11 > 0:31:13Then I fall for a stupid, idealistic fool

0:31:13 > 0:31:16who's trying to get himself killed.

0:31:16 > 0:31:17And you will be, sooner or later.

0:31:17 > 0:31:19It's written all over you.

0:31:20 > 0:31:21SHE LAUGHS

0:31:21 > 0:31:23So pathetic!

0:31:25 > 0:31:27Look at him!

0:31:27 > 0:31:30We shall see each other again before I leave, and celebrate.

0:31:30 > 0:31:32I do like you, very much.

0:31:32 > 0:31:34Stop lying!

0:31:34 > 0:31:35Ooh!

0:31:44 > 0:31:46It's not as bad as you think, that picture.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48I've no idea what that scene is about!

0:31:48 > 0:31:52He was such a sweet man, such a lovely man.

0:31:52 > 0:31:55And the newspaper said "the bubble has burst on Bacall."

0:31:55 > 0:31:59The reviews were bad. Did it seriously damage your career?

0:31:59 > 0:32:00Oh!

0:32:00 > 0:32:04I had to climb my way back up, I tell you. And you never get back.

0:32:06 > 0:32:09You never get back to that moment, you see.

0:32:10 > 0:32:16If I had had the care from Hawks that I might have had if he hadn't

0:32:16 > 0:32:20been such a macho man who was furious that I went off with Bogie...

0:32:23 > 0:32:25..that movie never would have happened.

0:32:27 > 0:32:30The fact is that it...

0:32:30 > 0:32:33it hurt me a lot. I mean, all the critics who praised me,

0:32:33 > 0:32:39who said I was a combination of Garbo and Hepburn and Dietrich and...

0:32:39 > 0:32:41Mae West, they mentioned.

0:32:41 > 0:32:44..Mae West, yes, and that I was this most exciting, brilliant,

0:32:44 > 0:32:45wonderful, funny...

0:32:45 > 0:32:48Every compliment in the book,

0:32:48 > 0:32:54to, "We were wrong, send her back where she came from! Disaster!"

0:32:54 > 0:32:56Well, I mean, it was very...

0:32:56 > 0:32:59- It was very hurtful.- Yeah.

0:32:59 > 0:33:01But I was married to Bogie then,

0:33:01 > 0:33:04and my reaction was really healthy.

0:33:05 > 0:33:07I was not happy about it,

0:33:07 > 0:33:11but I didn't burst into tears about it, although it was hurtful.

0:33:11 > 0:33:15Jumping ahead, you made the film The Fan in 1980.

0:33:15 > 0:33:17I loved The Fan.

0:33:17 > 0:33:21And you play a stage actress who's stalked by this young man

0:33:21 > 0:33:25- who's got pictures of the very young Lauren Bacall on his wall.- Yes.

0:33:25 > 0:33:29- You could say that it was quite a risky thing for you to do.- I know.

0:33:29 > 0:33:31It's very scary, all of that, because, you know,

0:33:31 > 0:33:34I have gotten a lot of... in the past.

0:33:34 > 0:33:37- And still I'm getting some nutty... - Nuts.- ..mail, yeah.

0:33:37 > 0:33:39There were nuts everywhere.

0:33:39 > 0:33:44- And it is frightening but it does exist and it can exist.- Yeah.

0:33:44 > 0:33:47Coming up to date, you made The Mirror Has Two Faces

0:33:47 > 0:33:49with director Barbara Streisand,

0:33:49 > 0:33:51and you got an Oscar nomination, which is...

0:33:51 > 0:33:53That's as far as I'll go with that one!

0:33:53 > 0:33:57..which is ironic, in a way, because it wasn't a great picture, was it?

0:33:57 > 0:33:58No.

0:33:58 > 0:34:00But it was a very good part.

0:34:00 > 0:34:04Streisand is a really good director, I have to tell you.

0:34:04 > 0:34:06She knows what the last shots were,

0:34:06 > 0:34:09she knows what shots are coming up, she knows what she needs.

0:34:09 > 0:34:13Maybe she'll look back and turn into a pillar of salt.

0:34:13 > 0:34:16'She doesn't play the Hollywood game at all, she plays her own game,

0:34:16 > 0:34:18'and she's got every right to do that, in my book.'

0:34:18 > 0:34:20Alex looks nervous.

0:34:20 > 0:34:22'I guess they don't like her. I don't know what it is.

0:34:22 > 0:34:24'The movie was not a popular movie.'

0:34:24 > 0:34:29It's time that we had another great Lauren Bacall film, isn't it?

0:34:29 > 0:34:33Oh, but there hasn't been one of those, ever, in my book,

0:34:33 > 0:34:36a movie that I was it in.

0:34:37 > 0:34:40They don't write parts, you know, they don't write parts for...

0:34:40 > 0:34:43They don't write parts for women in general that are terrific,

0:34:43 > 0:34:45and they don't...

0:34:45 > 0:34:47So unimaginative. They used to write...

0:34:47 > 0:34:49It's not Pedro Almodovar, All About My Mother.

0:34:49 > 0:34:52- Please, God, if something like that would only come along!- But...

0:34:52 > 0:34:54I just hope somebody will one day.

0:34:54 > 0:34:57Does Almodovar know that you would...?

0:34:57 > 0:35:00Yes, I've told him. I love Pedro. I said, "Pedro!

0:35:00 > 0:35:02"I've got to be in your first English-speaking movie!"

0:35:02 > 0:35:05I said, "I will carry a tray. I don't care what I do!"

0:35:05 > 0:35:08No, he's forgotten me already, he's made such a hit with this movie now.

0:35:08 > 0:35:10That's your next great movie. I can't wait to see it.

0:35:10 > 0:35:14And what would you do if all your films disappeared,

0:35:14 > 0:35:16if they were all wiped, if they...

0:35:16 > 0:35:20You know, if nobody could see Big Sleep again,

0:35:20 > 0:35:22if nobody could see Designing Woman again?

0:35:22 > 0:35:24That's life.

0:35:24 > 0:35:26What could I do?

0:35:26 > 0:35:30I tell you, I don't think of what happens after I'm gone.

0:35:32 > 0:35:36If things last, they last. You never know whether they last not.

0:35:36 > 0:35:39And I don't... I don't do things for posterity, anyway.

0:35:39 > 0:35:45In 2009, Bacall received an honorary Academy Award

0:35:45 > 0:35:47in recognition of her central place

0:35:47 > 0:35:51in the golden age of motion pictures.

0:35:51 > 0:35:54She may not have sought out posterity,

0:35:54 > 0:35:56but she achieved it, anyway.

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