Sometimes Google comes up with a pleasant surprise. In trying to find the source of this quotation attributed to Lauren Bacall on a Liberal Democrat Facebook page -
Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm a total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.
- I found this article, celebrating Betty Bacall's Jewish roots and including the (to me) surprising information that she was a first cousin of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli president.
She had been one of the prime movers of the campaign to support the Hollywood Ten. As I understand from an IMDb blog, she was the one who persuaded husband Humphrey Bogart to join the protest. As it turned out, his misgivings proved well-founded and both had to backtrack later, but it was a demonstration of her courage. Surprisingly, she confessed on chat-shows to being not half as bold in private life as the screen rôles she was identified with, but she certainly made some brave choices.
For me, the obituary which does her most justice is Veronica Horwell's in the Guardian. I would only add that the Bogart-Bacall partnership was assisted by radio, including a series entitled "Bold Venture", when film parts started to dry up.
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