What was it like working alongside Lauren Bacall?
AH: It was great. Years ago when we were making Mr North, I feel in love in with Lauren Bacall. We were having dinner at my father’s rented house in Rhode Island, he was very sick and liked to have everyone come over to his house, the actors and so forth, and one night he started telling stories. Lauren was at the end of the table, and he started talking about how wonderful Katie Hepburn was, how Katie Hepburn was a man’s women, and maybe Katie Hepburn was the best female friend he’d ever had, and finally at the end of the table came this little voice, ‘ but John what about me?’ [Laughs] and he goes ‘Oh honey, but you were married to Bogey!’ And she looked at him like a little, tiny bird – yet at the same time she can terrify people. And I think that what makes her a great actress, she can go to both sides. LF: Is the story true that Lauren Bacall was the first person he told about your birth? AH: Yes. Well, not just that my mother had had me. They were all on location in the Belgium C
