The captivating queen of Old Hollywood was a Jewish girl from Brooklyn
By Rachel Shukert for Tablet Magazine
Okay,
when I wrote yesterday how I feel like all I ever write anymore is
obituaries, I was kidding. Apparently, someone didn’t get the joke,
because less than an hour after those very words were published, it was
announced that the legendary actress Lauren Bacall passed away at the
(blessedly) ripe old age of 89. I was devastated, naturally, and
immediately called my friend Michael.“Oh my God,” I shrieked, before he had even said as much as hello. “Do you remember that time we went to Joel Grey’s book party and Lauren Bacall was there and that publicist came up to us and was like, look, whatever you do, do not attempt to speak to, or touch, Miss Bacall.”
“Of course,” he said, “and I really hope you still have that picture on your phone that you took from all the way across the room.” He sighed sadly. “All the fabulous old ladies are gone now.”
Lauren Bacall was not always old, but from the moment she sauntered across the nation’s screen in To Have and Have Not, playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, her future husband and the man with whom she would be forever identified, she was fabulous. All of 19 years old and what my grandfather always called, “a mean 19,” she appeared to us fully formed, a gloriously youthful creature who was already entirely herself.
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