Lauren Bacall
Born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, 1924. In 1943 Bacall was working as a model when Howard Hawks' wife spotted her on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. A Hollywood career soon followed. Her debut in To Have And Have Not was a sensation, moving one to criti
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Filmography Highlights
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The Walker
2007- Rated:
- TBC
Woody Harrelson escorts Lauren Bacall and Kristin Scott Thomas down the red carpet in this murder mystery thriller from Paul Schrader
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These Foolish Things
2006- Rated:
- 12A
A young woman, desperate to emulate her mother's theatrical success, becomes embroiled in a love triangle with a writer and a director as World War II threatens London
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Manderlay
2005- Rated:
- 15
A follow-up to the daring and stylised Dogville from director Lars Von Trier. Journeying across America with her gangster father, Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers a Southern plantation where slavery still exists
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Howl's Moving Castle
2005- Rated:
- U
The tale of an industrious young milliner magically transformed into an old woman and her involvement with the household of a dashing wizard. From the genius behind Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki
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Birth
2004- Rated:
- 15
Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) directs Nicole Kidman in this story about a New Yorker who believes her dead husband has been reincarnated in a child
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Dogville
2003- Rated:
- 15
Lars Von Trier's minimalist piece of filmed theatre sees Nicole Kidman play a fugitive on the run from gangsters, hiding out in a town in America's Rocky Mountains
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Mirror Has Two Faces, The
1996- Rated:
- 15
On screen discretion, even diffidence, is needed, but such reticence is beyond Streisand's uncontainable ego, and she seems to have learnt nothing from the infamy of aping Garland in A Star is Bor
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Pret-a-Porter
1994- Rated:
- 15
Oh dear. Having rediscovered his ruthless accuracy (and critical acclaim) with Short Cuts and The Player - a lean, stalking satire on the monstrosity of Hollywood's studio system - Altm
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Misery
1990- Rated:
- 18
Compelling adaptation of Stephen King's novella about an obsessive fan who holds her favourite author prisoner while he satisfies her depraved literary demands
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Mr North
1988- Rated:
- TBC
The last film John Huston was involved in before his death, and directed by his son Danny, Mr North is a frustrating and patchy adaptation of a Thornton Wilder novel. North (Edwards) is a poor but in
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Murder On The Orient Express
1974- Rated:
- PG
Albert Finney is Hercule Poirot in this highly entertaining whodunit. Played with a nod and a wink, the big-name cast includes John Gielgud, Sean Connery, and an Oscar-winning Ingrid Bergman
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Harper
1966- Rated:
- A
A neat, hard-boiled detective story adapted by Goldman from Ross MacDonald's book The Moving Target. Newman smoulders in the lead role, a private eye hired by Bacall to find her missing husband. Ther
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North West Frontier
1959- Rated:
- U
Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall star in this boy's own adventure yarn about the British in India
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Written On The Wind
1956- Rated:
- PG
Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall star in Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodrama. Two childhood friends are undone by a combination of alcohol, sterility, malice and romantic misadventure
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Cobweb, The
1955- Rated:
- TBC
A box office failure on release, this elegant if slightly daffy movie has deservedly become a minor cult. It was no surprise when Richard Rodney Bennett chose it as a favourite, since like all Minnel
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Blood Alley
1955- Rated:
- U
All action adventure in the China seas as John Wayne stars as a merchant sailor persuaded to help a whole village escape communist China on a stolen ferryboat to Hong Kong.
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Woman's World
1954- Rated:
- TBC
Three men are invited to New York by their boss, who wants to pick a general manager for his car factory. They bring their spouses along so as to pose as the perfect promotion-worthy happy American f
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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953- Rated:
- U
This glossy, entertaining comedy - one of the few of the early CinemaScope, DeLuxe Color and Stereophonic Sound movies not to be a spectacle - allowed plenty of space for the stars to move around in
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Young Man with a Horn
1950- Rated:
- PG
Douglas is never a man to be dissuaded: that crooked eyebrow and the savage jaw warn that attempts at intercession will be rewarded with a smack in the face. Here, all that tight-coiled energy is dev
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Key Largo
1948- Rated:
- TBC
Huston's wayward talent seldom lacked energy. He takes this theatrical thriller set in a hotel in the Florida Keys by the scruff of the neck and, without opening it up needlessly, creates a dramatic
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Dark Passage
1947- Rated:
- A
Bogart is a man on the run and Lauren Bacall his saviour in this tense and stylishly atmospheric film noir thriller
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The Big Sleep
1946- Rated:
- PG
Hard-boiled film noir with Bogey and Bacall picking their way through a tangled web of intrigue with more layers than a Spanish onion. Forget the plot, smoke 'em if you've got 'em and enjoy
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Confidential Agent
1945- Rated:
- TBC
Critic and film-maker Basil Wright described Greene as 'born a child of the film age', and it is true that many of his works leap from the page with the sense of a screenplay in waiting. And the writ
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