Betty Joan Perske, stage name Lauren Bacall, Betty Bacall
16 September 1924* – 12 August 2014
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York
American actress & author
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
~Lauren Bacall, American actress
Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (1978) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 2
Extended excerpt [Memoir]:
“Each time I was in love – this was it. The hunger to belong. Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. When you have nothing but dreams, that’s all you think about, all that matters, all that takes you away from humdrummery – the fact that your mother was working too hard and didn’t have enough in her own life, that your grandmother, loving though she was, wanted you to get a decent job to help your mother, that you didn’t have enough money to do anything you wanted to do, even buy a lousy coat for $17.95. Dreams were better – that was where my hope lay – I’d hang on to them, never let go. They were my own.” (pp. 2-3)
Source: Library – Lauren Bacall By Myself and then Some (1978) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0394413083
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