Word: laurens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s...
...Huston and his cameraman Karl Freund and the players get it on to film. Huston takes such expert, type-tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times as true and exciting (and as brave, for that matter), as the conduct he is usually required to pretend. And Huston is a master of atmosphere...
Only once is there a mention in the book of the sweat that most reporters distill trying to find words to fit their big news. Charles A. Lindbergh handed a scoop and a Pulitzer prize to old friend Lauren ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times when he sailed into exile (1935) after his baby was kidnaped. All afternoon, Lyman sweated over 13 different leads before, in desperation, he settled on a routine Times lead, such as he had written a thousand times...
Daniel Ellsberg, Highland Park. Lauren F. Otis, Bloomfield...
...Leggy Lauren Bacall took a look at her part in The Girl from Jones Beach, and said no: "I'm not a bathing beauty; I'd be embarrassed." Warner's promptly suspended her salary...