Humphrey Bogart – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

…In retrospect hijacking a telephone code was the least of Billie’s sins that summer, and since she’d stopped attending confession about the same time she stopped taking piano lessons, she never atoned, achieving a state of grace was the furthest thing from her mind. What she wanted was out. Out…

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“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks… he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”

Bogey and Bacall married at Malabar Farms in Ohio – Happy Thanksgiving

Where muse and memory meet is often over a keyboard, #amwriting #HollywoodFiction in Boston where my husband is just finishing up a film

Humphrey Bogart, “The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.” Portait by Yousuf Karsh

BOGART AND BACALL AT HOME

“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner

I’ve noticed a lot of people looking for this HD scan of Lauren Bacall in her first role…To Have And Have Not

Sometimes in Hollywood only a drink will do…

“Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles isn’t a realist.” Billy Wilder

On set with Judy Garland — A Star Is Born