Hollywood's GREATEST LOVE STORY
Closer US|July 29, 2024
THE LEGENDARY ACTORS OVERCAME MANY OBSTACLES TO BUILD A HAPPY, BUT BRIEF, LIFE TOGETHER
Ron Kelly
Hollywood's GREATEST LOVE STORY

When tragedy struck, Lauren Bacall expected her new husband, Humphrey Bogart, to comfort her. But after she contacted him to share that her beloved dog had been killed by a car, she got no sympathy. "He was crocked," she revealed in her memoir By Myself. "Bogie [was] drunker than I'd ever seen him and drunker than he'd ever be again," she wrote. "It all made me feel angry — and inadequate and uncertain."

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