ᴥ Miss K ᴥ thirty.
Classic Hollywood lover and serial archivist with my camera. Traveling all the time, either in my head or in my car/by plane or by train. Vivien Leigh. Julie Christie. Audrey Hepburn. I ♥ the Beatles. Mark Knopfler. Glen Campbell. & more Classic Country music. Victoriana. 1980's fads. I like butter on cantaloupe. I just thought you should know that.
At the moment, my current little obsessions: Norma Shearer films; John Sloan (American Impressionist artist); new pillowcases; owls; new rugs; and my revived love of classic films.
Just a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
at the five and dime
“Kay told one reporter that she preferred beautiful women as her female friends: ‘They are less inclined to be catty, and I like to feel safe from gossip when I leave room.’
Early in 1959, she began palling around with two women who certainly fit the bill: Lauren Bacall (who lost her husband, Humphrey Bogart, two years earlier) and Vivien Leigh (whose tempestuous marriage to Laurence Olivier was in one of its down cycles.) The three night-clubbed, dined and went to the theather all through the early months of 1959, providing newspapers with fodder for their gossip columns and fashion pages alike (The Gay Trio Who Are the Talk of the Town) ‘Suddenly everyone’s talking about Vivien, Betty (Bacall) and me as though we were up to something sinister,’ Kay laughed. ‘We all love going to the theather. It’s our passion, our homework.’ Leigh shrugged, ‘We just like being together and seeing plays and doing jigsaws, anything in fact.’
(The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall)
photo vivandlarry.com
And then there’s Noel Coward, the fourth girlfriend lol
Kay Kendall and I share the same birthday, but besides that fact, this photo is legendary.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in “To Have and Have Not”, 1944
(Source: carygranted)
Lauren Bacall, 1945, photographed by John Engstead
Lauren Bacall, 1950s
If I were to say one person that reminds me of my Grandma (personality-wise), it’s Lauren Bacall!
(Source: julia-loves-bette-davis, via maryhartleys)
Peter Lorre was one of Lauren “Betty” Bacall’s biggest supporters. When Bogie told him that he loved Betty, but confessed that the twenty-five year difference in their ages bothered him, Peter dispelled his doubts, saying, “What’s the difference? It’s better to have five good years than none at all.”
This is so true! Spend a short time with someone who you will love intensely, than to not have spent that time with them at all. Age, social differences, race - none of this should matter when true love can conquer all.
(via juliemarsden)
Lauren Bacall (circa 1945) and Lauren with Bogart (at the Oscars, 1950s)
.. cool :)
Photograph taken by Jean Howard of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, circa 1950s
Can you spot them?
Humphrey Bogart, son Stephen and Lauren Bacall, Christmas early 1950s, photographed by Slim Aarons.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, 1940’s
“We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our old late, late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Here’s lookin’ at you kid
Missing all the things we did
We can find it once again, I know
Just like they did in Key Largo
Honey, can’t you remember
We played all the parts
That sweet scene of surrender
When you gave me your heart
Please say you will
Play it again
‘Cause I love you still
Baby, this can’t be the end
We had it all
(We had it all)
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our old late, late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Here’s lookin’ at you kid
(Here’s lookin’ at you kid)
Missing all the things we did
We can find it once again, I know
Just like they did in Key Largo”
- Bertie Higgins, “Key Largo” 1982
