Bogie and Bacall Were Hollywood"s Hottest Couple in the 1950s
Two film icons, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fascinated fans when they married one another. They worked together in four movies.
Marriage Fast Facts - Lauren and Humprey
Met: 1944
Married: May 21, 1945
Marriage Ended: January 14, 1957, Bogart's death
First Marriage: No
Did You Know?
There was a 25-year difference in Bogie and Lauren's ages.
Born:
Lauren Bacall aka Betty Joan Perske: September 16, 1924 in The Bronx, New York City, New York.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart: December 25, 1899 in New York City, New York.
Died:
Lauren: At the age of 89 after having a massive stroke at her home in New York City, Lauren died on August 12, 2014.
Humphrey: On January 14, 1957 at the age of 57, Humprey Bogart died of esophageal cancer at his home in Holmby Hills, California.
When Bogart and Bacall Met:
While filming To Have and Have Not in 1944, Bogie, then 44, met 19-year old Lauren. They had met briefly a few months before but their relationship didn't begin until they worked together on the movie.
Wedding Date and Information:
Lauren and Humphrey were married on May 21, 1945 at the home of author Louis Bromfield at his home, Malabar Farm, near Lucas, Ohio.
Bacall-Bogart Wedding Picture
Bogart-Bacall Wedding Video
Children:
Lauren and Humphrey had two children. Lauren had one son with her second husband, Jason Robards.
- Stephen Humphrey Bogart: Born in 1949.
- Leslie Howard Bogart: Born in 1952.
- Sam Prideaux Robards: Born in 1961.
Occupations:
Lauren: Actress, model.
Humphrey: Actor, U.S. Navy.
Lauren and Bogie made four films together:
Quotes About the Marriage of Bogart and Bacall:
A.M. Sperber on when the chemistry started: "In Bacall’s account, she was sitting in her dressing room, joking with Bogart, when he leaned over, put his hand under her chin, and kissed her. He then pulled a matchbook from his pocket and asked her to write her phone number on the back."
Source: A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax. Bogart. VanityFair.com. 1997.
Lauren about their age difference: “I was older than nineteen in many ways, and he had such energy and vitality he seemed to be no particular age.”
Source: A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax. Bogart. VanityFair.com. 1997.
Other Marriages:
Lauren was married to actor Jason Robards Jr from 1961 until 1969 when the couple divorced. Robards was born in 1922 and died in 2000.
Lauren: "We shared a love of the theatre and we had the same sense of humour. But he [Jason] had a terrible monkey on his back, he was an alcoholic ... from his father." When he was present, he was a good father, "to his own children, to mine, and to Sam". But he wasn't often around. She attributes the failure of the marriage partly to his drinking and partly to the innate pressures of their life together."
Source: Susie Mackenzie. "The Moments That Last." TheGuardian.com. 2005.
Humprey had three previous marriages:
Helen Menken: Both actors, Helen and Bogie met in 1922 at New York's Playhouse Theatre. They were married on May 20, 1926 at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. Their marriage ended in divorce on November 18, 1927. Helen was born in 1901 and died in 1966.
Mary Philips: Bogie met Mary, another actress, in 1924 when they were both appearing at the Comedy Theatre. They were married on April 3, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut at her mom's apartment. Mary and Humphrey divorced in 1938. Mary was born in 1901 and died in 1975.
Mayo Methot: Bogart's third marriage to actress Mayo Methot, was by news accounts violent and destructive. They even had a fight during their wedding reception and spent the night apart. They were married in August 1938 and divorced in 1945. Mayo was born in 1904 and died in 1951.
A.M. Sperber, Eric Lax: "Bogart was a man in a deeply troubled marriage of five years to actress Mayo Methot. Their much-publicized fighting had led amused reporters to call them the Battling Bogarts, but there was nothing funny about their home life. Mayo, alcoholic and mentally unstable, had stabbed him in a rage one night in 1942 while he was making Across the Pacific, an incident that was kept secret from the press and from the police. But Bogart, whom his friend John Huston, the director, described as 'morbidly faithful,' persisted in the marriage."
Source: A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax. Bogart. VanityFair.com. 1997.
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