Word: laurens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. A playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) who has drilled himself into a trap of lies persuades his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Abe Burrows directs this daft farce with a deft touch...
...wine, travels well, since it is usually about a universal subject, sex. With Abe Burrows at the helm, this farce about a rouéish dentist whose idea of honesty is to tell his mistress he's married when he's not, has made a successful crossing. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson are on board...
...none of this prepared Amanda for the shock. She was just out of bed and barely into her morning paper in her Manhattan apartment at the Dakota (same floor as Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall) when she spotted her name in boldface. Down dropped her paper and her aplomb...
...womanly baritone laughs a line home. Waves of appreciation break across the stage. The timing matches Bankhead's; the zany movements beat Bea Lillie's. It is just as nobody predicted: Lauren Bacall can pack them in the theater the way she packed them in the movies back in the '40s when she was Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. "Looks like I'm one hell of a Broadway draw," she drawls...
...surprise is understandable. Success may be nothing new to Lauren Bacall, but it is nothing recent either. At 41 she is appearing in her first stage hit, Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower. It has been 23 years since she rose to star status with her first picture, To Have and Have...