— Has your marriage affected your work in the art? — No, not at all. I have worked, and still work, with devotion at my profession; indeed, my husband supplies me with the guidance he acquired in the long years he spent working in the cinema.
— Has your marriage reduced the number of your admirers? — I do not know; and in any case the Gallup institute, of world-wide fame, has not taken the trouble to conduct a poll on the number of my admirers before my marriage and after it, so that we might know.
— Do you owe your success and fame to skill, or to luck, or to beauty? — I say luck, without hesitation; but beauty also has a part in the success of many women — even though there are girls in Hollywood who are considered marvels of beauty and yet do not work in the cinema. I should not be far from the truth if I said that luck enters in to the extent of fifty percent, while the other fifty goes back to skill, beauty, and hard work.
— What was the moment that played the leading role in your life? — It happened when my picture was published in the American fashion magazine "Vogue" and my husband saw it; he brought me to Hollywood, where one of the roles was entrusted to me, and from that day began my march along the road of fame and success.
— Is there a story that changed the course of your life? — I know many girls who try to deny or conceal the turning
point in their lives which lifted them suddenly from the depths to the heavens of fame and brilliance, because they do not wish to go back to the memories of a painful, harsh past. As for me, I rarely forget that event which lifted me to the heavens of fame — and it is, as I have told you, the publication of my picture in the fashion magazine "Vogue."
— Have you ever regretted working in the cinema? — No; my private life has never been affected by my work in the art, for our work means a great deal to my husband... and to me.
Lauren Bacall
— What is the happiest moment of your life? — The happiest moment of my life was when Humphrey Bogart and I decided to marry; and the happiest hours of my life of all are those I spend with my husband in a corner of our country house or on the deck of our little yacht "Santa," on a short trip for fishing or for rest.
— And what was the most awkward of moments? — The moment I stood for the first time before the camera.
* Humphrey Bogart, star of the picture "Passage to Marseille," is joining his wife Lauren Bacall and Clifton Young in acting in the picture "Dark Passage."
* One of the American film companies is at work on a new version of the film "Lord Jim," which first appeared on the silver screen in 1925.
* Frank Sinatra, the famous singer nicknamed the Voice of America, has bought an airplane for his private travels. It is known of him that he heads a committee recently formed to collect subscriptions for the fight against the deadly disease of cancer.
* The director Howard Hawks is now producing a picture entitled "Red River," acted by John Wayne and Walter Brennan.
* The actress Joan Fontaine and William Dozier have formed a film company.
* Archie Mayo is taking on the role of Rudolph Valentino, the onetime idol of women, in a film about the life of this great actor of the silent-film era.
* The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company has announced that it will shortly bring the life story of the musician Robert Schumann and his wife Clara to the silver screen under the title "Love Story." It is worth mentioning that it had previously given this picture the name "Song of Love." The stars are Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker.
* Otto Preminger, director of the picture "Laura," is at work directing the story "The Black Forest," in which the star Maureen O'Hara, of the gleaming red hair, plays the leading role.