The Casablanca star carried on a 17-year affair with the woman known as 'Bacall's worst nightmare'
Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the hard-drinking mistress and long-time companion of Humphrey Bogart who described herself as 'Bacall's worst nightmare', has died aged 89.
Thompson died of natural causes in New Orleans, the city she had made her home in the 1990s. Her 17-year affair with Bogart first came to light in 1982 in her book Bogie and Me: A Love Story, a memoir in which she described the close relationship the couple struck up two years before the star met his famous fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, on the set of the 1944 film To Have and Have Not
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Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the hard-drinking mistress and long-time companion of Humphrey Bogart who described herself as 'Bacall's worst nightmare', has died aged 89.
Thompson died of natural causes in New Orleans, the city she had made her home in the 1990s. Her 17-year affair with Bogart first came to light in 1982 in her book Bogie and Me: A Love Story, a memoir in which she described the close relationship the couple struck up two years before the star met his famous fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, on the set of the 1944 film To Have and Have Not
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- 2/10/2008
- by Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
The Casablanca star carried on a 17-year affair with the woman known as 'Bacall's worst nightmare'
Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the hard-drinking mistress and long-time companion of Humphrey Bogart who described herself as 'Bacall's worst nightmare', has died aged 89.
Thompson died of natural causes in New Orleans, the city she had made her home in the 1990s. Her 17-year affair with Bogart first came to light in 1982 in her book Bogie and Me: A Love Story, a memoir in which she described the close relationship the couple struck up two years before the star met his famous fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, on the set of the 1944 film To Have and Have Not
Continue reading...
Verita Bouvaire Thompson, the hard-drinking mistress and long-time companion of Humphrey Bogart who described herself as 'Bacall's worst nightmare', has died aged 89.
Thompson died of natural causes in New Orleans, the city she had made her home in the 1990s. Her 17-year affair with Bogart first came to light in 1982 in her book Bogie and Me: A Love Story, a memoir in which she described the close relationship the couple struck up two years before the star met his famous fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, on the set of the 1944 film To Have and Have Not
Continue reading...
- 2/10/2008
- by Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
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