TCM Remembers Lauren Bacall with 24-Hour Marathon

Inevitably, Turner Classic Movies is offering up a tribute to screen icon Lauren Bacall, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 89. TCM’s 24-hour marathon will air Monday, Sept. 15, beginning at 8 p.m. (ET), and will conclude Tuesday, Sept. 16, her 90th birthday. The tribute will include all four Bacall-Bogart pairings: Howard Hawks classic “To Have and Have Not” (1944), during which she fell in love with her future husband, “The Big Sleep” (1946), “Dark Passage” (1947) and “Key Largo” (1948).

TCM will open its remembrance of Bacall’s life and career “Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall” (2005), a conversation with Robert Osborne, who said: “Lauren Bacall was a wonderful and generous friend of ours at TCM, and a great connection to the ‘golden age of cinema. Personally, I have to admit that she never failed to make my heart beat faster and my voice to stammer when we spoke. Talk about true star quality – that was Bacall.”

The “TCM Remembers: Lauren Bacall Tribute Video” is here. 

TCM’s tribute to Bacall includes “Young Man with a Horn” (1950), with her old Academy of Dramatic Arts schoolmate Kirk Douglas and Doris Day, in which Bacall delivers perhaps her best dramatic performance. Bacall shows her comic chops in “How to Marry a Millionaire” (1953), starring Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe; “Designing Woman” (1957), with Gregory Peck; and “Sex and the Single Girl” (1964), starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda. Bacall costars with Gary Cooper in “Bright Leaf” (1950), John Wayne in “Blood Alley” (1955) and Paul Newman in “Harper” (1966).

Here’s the complete schedule for TCM’s tribute to Lauren Bacall:

Monday, Sept. 15