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re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable”

Posted by:	Thom915 (Thom915@aol.com) 02:04 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - TheOtherOne 11:17 am EDT 08/15/14

I think Reidel gives the answer that Hollywood wanted nothing to do with Bacall really after Bogie's death and so they cast Ingrid Bergman who was at the time experiencing a bit of a comeback. My Bacall story: Running out of the alley behind the theater where Cactus Flower was playing I happened to run into someone who would today be called a bag lady, no make up kerchief over her head, carrying two oversize brown paper bags. I backed up to say excuse me and got a stare that froze my blood. It was only after carefully moving aroound the woman and exiting the alley that I realized who that was. Later that night I saw Lauren Bacall onstage transformed even in her earlier "Plain Jane" scenes from alley bag lady to that most glamourous of all creatures, a Broadway star fully in command of the audience and the play. Nobody could have played that part better and I was thrilled for my clumsy but very real encounter with the great Ms Bacall!

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