12015-04-04T13:10:02-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489486210media2015-04-21T21:13:14-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489This project traces, documents, and interrogates the life cycle of the star image of actress Lauren Bacall, who was born on September 16, 1924, and died last August at the age of 89. The daughter of Jewish parents and raised in an immigrant neighborhood in New York City, Bacall (born Betty Perske) began to study acting at the age of sixteen, helping to support herself and her family through various modeling jobs. In 1943, the teenager was discovered on the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the wife of Hollywood director Howard Hawks. Under personal contract to the director, Bacall was trained to assume a particular type of screen image that was an embodiment of Hawks's ideal femininity. This active image-making was realized for the first time onscreen in To Have and Have Not (1944), a critical and box-office success that launched Bacall's career, transforming her into a full-fledged Warner Bros. star by the start of 1945.
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12015-04-21T20:59:34-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489"There Is a Face That Is Different"1media2015-04-21T20:59:34-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489
12015-04-20T23:07:08-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489Selling the Image11plain2015-04-22T17:06:56-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489
12015-04-20T23:53:11-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489Early Publicity I: Star Meets Public2media2015-04-29T11:28:07-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489
12015-04-21T21:11:48-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489Early Publicity II: That New Girl3media2015-04-29T11:28:46-07:00Sara Bakerman3832745c7a2815ee1741d590f5fd18d06e2d0489
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12015-04-14T10:48:21-07:00To Have and Have Not Trailer (1944)1To Have and Have Not Trailer - Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Szurovy. The movie that brought together ...plain2015-04-14T10:48:21-07:00YouTube2012-10-05T19:16:41.000ZvideoEBM5Bte4ltgFilmMOVIECLIPS Classic Trailers