Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards

In By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall’s updated and extended version of her 1978 bestselling autobiography By Myself, the two-time Tony Award-winning actress (for Applause in 1970 and for Woman of the Year in 1981) candidly discusses the ballyhoo surrounding her very first Academy Award nomination in the mid-1990s.
Apart from a few (film) career lulls, Bacall had been working steadily in front of the camera since 1945. But whether as mere on-screen decoration (Key Largo, Bright Leaf) or as a solid leading lady (Woman’s World, The Fan), Bacall had been invariably ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
More than half a century after Bacall’s film début in To Have and Have Not, actress-director-composer-singer-etc. [...]

by Andre Soares | February 11, 2005   
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