Re: [Cz-L] Lauren Bacall's mother

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Thank you, Mark, for forwarding the links to those pieces on Bacall. In the
Guardian I found additional articles on her that were fascinating.
Andy

Andy Halmay
Veni Vici Entertainment Inc.,
Toronto, Canada
1-416-925-1271 * Skype: Pronto711
venivici.andy_at_gmail.com

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Mark Wiznitzer <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hardy -
>
> I have always thought that the smartest people are the ones who know what
> they do not know.
> So learning you keep an "archive of things I will never know" has greatly
> impressed me.
> Similarly, my dear and very smart uncle Lucky (Lucien) used to warn me
> that I still had to learn what he had already forgotten.
> Having reached the age where there is much I too have started to forget,
> I continue to learn much from your persistent contributionsto this list.
> But please, don't give up so easily on this subject.
> The exact origins of Lauren Bacall's Romanian mother may still come to
> light.
> It can be learned, for her mother's birth certificate must be somewhere to
> be found.
> For now, keep this in your archive of things you MAY never know.
> In the meantime, we can remember a woman full-of-life, who was far more
> than a pretty face.
> Read here how this daughter of a Romanian Jewess learned to deal
> with ant-semitism and other forms of intolerance:
>
> http://forward.com/articles/204035/how-lauren-bacall-faced-and-overcame-anti-semitism/
> ?
> and some of the things she said we could all learn from:
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-14-of-her-best-quotes
>

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