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List Price: $7.99 | | Publisher: Ballantine Books
Salesrank: 118091
Released: October 12, 1985 |
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| Used Price: $0.47 |
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| Media: Mass Market Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
"In a word, LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF is terrific...one of the real-life heroines of our time...and she wrote this book as she lived it."
BOSTON GLOBE
"She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else."
-Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall: By Myself Reviews:
A Real Movie Star and A Real Person 
2008-12-20 - Although written many years ago, "Lauren Bacall By Myself" is an absorbing and relevant book. She is still alive and well remembered by many movie-goers who saw the first Bacall/Bogart movies. Her first-person memoir shows the couple as very real people who reach Hollywood stardom and are very much in love. Their children are as important as their careers. Their life together is filled detailed descriptions of their many Hollywood friends; she name-drops because these are indeed friends and people who enjoy laughter together.
Then tragedy comes with Humphrey Bogart's illness and eventual death. He is mourned by family, by actors who knew and admired him, and by his thousands of fans.
Lauren, continues to act. She describes trying to replace Bogart with other male celebrities; she admits making big mistakes with her some of her choices. The "By Myself" of the title brings her to her own eventual theatrical success as she continues making movies and at last becomes the stage actor she has always longed to be. APPLAUSE to her for making it on her own.
Great read, very personal and well written 
2008-09-22 - This book is very enjoyable. One of the best biographies I have read. It's very well written and very personal. Recommended.
Bogie and Baby and more
2008-03-11 - Lauren Bacall's 1984 autobiography details her humble beginnings, how modeling led to acting, and her marriages and love affairs. She met Bogie on the set of her first movie when she was 19 and he was 43 and married. They fell in love at first sight and had a good marriage until his death. Her next husband was Jason Robards, Jr.; his drinking made for trouble from the start. The ups and downs of her movie and Broadway careers and her love of politics (and politicians) round out the book.
The woman who emerges from the pages is pretty much what I expected - strong, independent, and passionate - but also quite self-centered and spoiled. She's had a charmed life and makes no excuses for her shortcomings.
The book is full of famous tinseltown names and fabulous jet-set locations. She writes as if she were talking, often using ungrammatical half-sentences which slowed me down sometimes, but that is a minor quibble. I heartily recommend it to her fans.
great look at a great dame
2007-05-07 - buy it used. good read for the beach. then see her movies.
Lauren Bacall: By Myself
2006-07-27 - I enjoyed Lauren Bacall's autobiography better than any autobiography I've ever read. Her style of writing is so personal, it's just a pleasure to read. It's written with heart, it's witty, poignant, and so honest. You'll also learn about the original "Rat Pack", and other celebrities. I can't say enough about this book!
