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In Memoriam: Lauren Bacall

14 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by bojodadesign in Celebrities, Film, Fine Art, Museums, Obituaries, Photography

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American Cool, Lauren Bacall, National Portrait Gallery

LAUREN BACALL, included in the National Portrait Gallery's "American Cool" exhibition.  Artist: Alfred Eisenstaedt 1949 (printed 2013) Pigmented ink jet print Sheet: 48.3 × 33cm (19 × 13") Image: 40.3 × 27.9cm (15 7/8 × 11")

LAUREN BACALL, included in the National Portrait Gallery’s “American Cool” exhibition, through September 7, 2014. Artist: Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1949 (printed 2013). Pigmented ink jet print.

Born: September 16, 1924, The Bronx, New York City, NY

Died: August 12, 2014, New York, NY

Lauren Bacall was definitely cool.

Each generation has certain individuals who bring innovation and style to a field of endeavor while projecting a certain charismatic self-possession. Lauren Bacall is one of the figures selected for the National Portrait Gallery‘s “American Cool” exhibition.

Ms. Bacall was 89 and a longtime resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Launched by a Harper’s Bazaar cover when she was a 19-year-old model, the former Betty Joan Perske, born to Jewish immigrants in New York City, was signed by Warner Bros. in 1943.

Whatever she may have lacked in acting experience, the willowy teen made up for with a certain grace that was made camera-ready by the great director Howard Hawks. Lauren Bacall, as she had been renamed, modeled her character in 1944’s adaptation of a Hemingway novel, To Have and Have Not, after Hawks’s stylish wife, Nancy “Slim” Keith, and delivered the immortal line to the grizzled Humphrey Bogart, who was 25 years her senior: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”

A star was born. So was a legendary off-screen romance with and marriage to Humphrey Bogart, with whom she made four films.

Other memorable roles that made Ms. Bacall a Hollywood legend were The Big Sleep (1946), Key Largo (1948), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

Once Bacall left Hollywood for New York in the late ’50s, she found a new career working on Broadway, where, despite her raspy singing voice, she won Tony Awards for the musicals Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). 

In my opinion, she was one of the most beautiful and talented actresses in Hollywood. She had ‘The Look’ — cool and mysterious — and she had the sound, courtesy of that irresistibly low and throaty voice.

Thanks for the memories, Lauren.

 

I ♥ Lincoln

10 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by bojodadesign in Film, Movies, Philately, Typography

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Academy Awards, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, Stamps

Art director Antonio Alcalá worked with graphic designer Gail Anderson of New York City to produce the stamp. Courtesy of USPS.com.

Art director Antonio Alcalá worked with graphic designer Gail Anderson of New York City to produce the stamp. To evoke the look of broadsides from the Civil War era, they employed Hatch Show Print of Nashville, Tennessee, one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America. Courtesy of USPS.com.

The 85th Annual Academy Awards nominations were announced early this morning. Leading the pack with 12 nominations — including for best picture — was Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. I saw Lincoln last weekend and thought it was excellent — definitely my choice for this year’s best picture. I also predict that Daniel Day-Lewis (Abraham Lincoln), Sally Field (Mary Todd Lincoln) and Tommy Lee Jones (Thaddeus Stevens) will win for best actor and supporting actress/actor for their performances in the film.

On a related design note, the 2013 Emancipation Proclamation (Forever®)stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service on January 1 and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation stamp is one of a civil rights set being issued in 2013.

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