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Far More Than Just a Beautiful Face – Lauren Bacall’s 30 Most Glamorous Moments in the 1940s and 1950s

Since she strutted her way onto the screen as a teenager in the 1940s, Lauren Bacall has smoldered over American culture as a unmistakable presence of pure charisma. One of the great sharp-tongued heroines of the noir years, she’d eventually grow into a great lady of the American theater — all the while maintaining an outsized personality, both on and off the screen. A child of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Bacall turned her name into a synonym for class and style. Here are some of the great moments of an absolutely dazzling life.

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Posing for a portrait, 1943.

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Showing off her signature “Look,” 1943.

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Bacall makes her movie debut in the wartime thriller “To Have and Have Not,” 1943.

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Donning a black beret and overcoat, 1944.

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Sitting cross-legged with her hands on her hips in a jumpsuit, 1944.

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“I was a maintenance man for fifteen years. But then my mother…

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“I was a maintenance man for fifteen years. But then my mother got cancer and she needed somebody with her all the time. I had to cook for her, clean her, help with her medicine— everything. I ended up losing my job because I’d missed so many days of work. But by that time, I started to realize that I was really good at taking care of people. So now I’m studying to be a registered nurse.”

liberalsarecool: “Americans make up about 4.43 percent of the…

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liberalsarecool:

“Americans make up about 4.43 percent of the world’s population, yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world’s privately held firearms.” – Vox

America has to begin a sensible conversation about guns. Insurance for gun owners? Ban on machine guns? License process to include more extensive background information?

Something has to change and it’s not going to come from responsible gun owners. It’s going to come from the majority who do not own guns.