#321 Lauren Bacall ... At Home At The Dakota Apartments

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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EPISODE 321 The Hollywood icon and Broadway star Lauren Bacall lived at the Dakota Apartments on the Upper West Side for 53 years. Her story is intertwined the Dakota, a revolutionary apartment complex built in 1884. In this episode, we tell both their stories. Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske, the daughter of Jewish Eastern European immigrants, worked her way from theater usher to cover model at a young age, then became a movie star before she was 20 years old. Her film pairings with husband Humphrey Bogart define the classic Hollywood era. After Bogart died, she returned to New York City to reinvent her career, her sights aimed at the Broadway stage. And she chose the Dakota as her home. Built by Singer Sewing Machine president Edward Clark, the Dakota was a pioneer of both apartment-style living and of living, generally speaking, on the Upper West Side. This is the story of second and third acts -- both for an woman of grit and independent spirit and for a landmark with a million stories to tell (and a million more to come). boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 321, Lauren Becall, at home at the Dakota apartments.
0:06.8	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:08.4	Hey.
0:09.6	Support for the Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:13.2	Join us for as little as $1 a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:22.8	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:25.8	And this is Tom Myers.
0:27.8	And everyone, how are we doing? How are we doing out in the world all snug in our homes here?
0:33.3	Or at very least, just try to stay as local as possible?
0:37.8	Snug at our homes is one way to put it Greg.
0:41.5	Feeling distant but yet at home together, you know?
0:45.4	We're feeling so snug in fact in our homes that we were thinking that we would actually tell a
0:50.8	story about famous and historic homes because there are so many of these to choose from in New
0:57.7	York City.
0:58.9	I also think that we could use a little glamour in our lives these days. I say, as I am recording
1:06.6	this show in my pajamas.
1:10.0	It's allowable and remember it's not what you wear Greg, it's how you wear it.
1:15.7	Sure.
1:16.3	You know, your confidence, your poise.
1:19.7	So imagine the subject of our show today.
1:24.0	Hollywood, icon and legend, Lauren McCall,
1:28.4	lounging about her apartment, maybe in a pair of expensive silk pajamas,
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