Lauren Bacall on Being Mrs. Bogart
I ask if she felt that her acting career was hurt by being Bogart’s wife. “Oh, yes, because he wanted a wife. He didn’t want an actress,” she says. “He’d been married to three actresses [Helen Menken and Mary Philips, before Methot], and from the beginning he said to me, ‘I love you, and if you want a career, I’ll do everything I can to help you, but I won’t marry you.’ He wanted a wife that would go with him and be there, and he was dead right. And that’s what I wanted, and that’s why I wanted children. He had never had a child. So I was Miss Pushy in that way. But I was happy being his wife. I loved it. Because I really loved him.” – Vanity Fair, March 2011
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Lauren Bacall seems like an extraordinary person. I loved the honesty and devotion in the interview. Lovely picture, too!
-xx Noe ADELLA AVENUE
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