Where Have All the Gentlemen Gone?

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hollyhocksandtulips: Van Nuys, California, 1959 Photo by Yale Joel for LIFE
hollywoodlady: Portrait of two young women with roller blades skating on the road and smiling
 
sharpegirl: An outtake from my Gramz’s LIFE Magazine cover photoshoot in the 1940’s. This is her and her first husband, who went MIA in WW2. She was 23, here. Photo by Eliot Elisofon, 1941.
Slim darling, you came along and into my arms and into my heart and all the real true love I have is yours – and now I’m afraid you won’t understand and that you’ll become impatient and that I’ll lose you – but even if that happened, I wouldn’t stop loving you for you are my last love and all the rest of my life I shall love you and watch you and be ready to help you should you ever need help. All the nice things I do each day would be so much sweeter and so much gayer if you were with me. I find myself saying a hundred times a day, ‘If Slim could only see that’ or ‘I wish Slim could hear this.’ I want to make a new life with you – I want all the friends I’ve lost to meet you and know you and love you as I do – and live again with you, for the past years have been terribly tough, damn near drove me crazy. You’ll soon be here, Baby, and when you come you’ll bring everything that’s important to me in this world with you. — Humphrey Bogart’s letter to Lauren Bacall
rainydaysandblankets: butterfield-8: I don’t know how it happened – it was almost imperceptible. It was about three weeks into the picture – the end of the day – I had one more shot, was sitting at the dressing table in the portable dressing room combing my hair. Bogie came in to bid me good night. He was standing behind me – we were joking as usual – when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive – he was a bit shy – no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn out package of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my number on the back. I did. – Lauren Bacall on how her relationship with Humphrey Bogart started gentlemen, take note.