Movies: Lauren Bacall

Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appe...

Lauren Bacall discusses her life and career with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne....

This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart....

Documentary short about the making of John Wayne's final movie, the 1976 film The Shootist....

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Runs through Greta Garbo's life and films in chronological order in an attempt to reveal the 'real' Garbo....

A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey and others, as well as the two men themselves, plus clips of performances of their songs....

A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995....

A retrospective on the importance of the kiss in the classic films of the 20s through the 50s....

Leonard Bernstein narrated by legendary screen star Lauren Bacall. The movie also relies extensively on Bernstein's own words to provide the counterpoint to the abundant visual material. Highlights include excerpts of Bernstein conducting masterwor...

Ironic take on soap opera presenting, in word and song, the life of Portuguese fado singer, Amália Rodrigues....

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