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Hollywood loves a good romance, and the love shared by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall continues to stand out as one of the greatest in the history of Tinseltown, even despite the massive age gap between the two stars<\/a>. Bogart and Bacall first met in 1943, when he was 44, and she was 19. To put it in perspective, Bogart starred in his fourth Broadway play on September 1, 1924, and two weeks later, in the same city, Bacall was born.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Age gaps aren’t uncommon in Hollywood, and neither is how Bacall and Bogart’s romance began: with a secret celebrity affair<\/a>. The two met on the set of “Passage to Marseille” in 1943\u00a0before\u00a0co-starring in Bacall’s first film, 1944’s “To Have and Have Not,” which gave Bacall her most famous line, “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”\u00a0Three weeks into filming, they kissed for the first time.\u00a0 Bacall’s mother wasn’t happy that her daughter was dating not just a much older man, but a much older married man. In 2014, Bacall told Parade<\/a> that her mother was “furious” about the relationship, saying to her, “He’s going to think you’re just a loose girl.”<\/p>\n When he met Bacall,\u00a0Bogart was married to Mayo Methot (his third wife and her third husband), but the relationship was already coming to an end. Called “The Battling Bogarts” by the press,\u00a0Bogart and Methot were both heavy drinkers, and often fought \u2014 it was even reported that Methot had once stabbed Bogart. \u00a0In early December 1944, Bogart moved out of his home, and Methot divorced him on May 10, 1945. Bogart and Bacall wed less than two weeks later on May 21. You can be sure Bacall’s makeup was perfect.<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Humphrey Bogart And Lauren Bacall stayed together until his death<\/p>\n
Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/p>\n While the romance of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart may have started with a scandal \u2014 and a very large age gap \u2014 it was a true love, though Bacall admitted that part of it came from her longing for a father figure. As she wrote in her autobiography, “I wanted to give Bogie so much that he hadn’t had. All the love that had been stored inside of me all my life for an invisible father, for a man.”\u00a0Bacall and Bogart would go on to appear in five films together.<\/p>\n In 1949, the couple would welcome their first child,\u00a0Stephen, who was named after the character his father played in “To Have and Have Not.”\u00a0Bacall was 24 when she gave birth, making her younger than Bogart was when she herself was born. They would have their second child, a daughter named Leslie, in 1952. Sadly, Bogart would be diagnosed with\u00a0esophageal cancer just a few years later and died in January 1957 at the age of 57 years. He had withered away to only 80 pounds by the end. Bogart was cremated, and mixed with his ashes was a whistle Bacall gave to him with the engraving, “If you want anything, just whistle.”<\/p>\n
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