#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Lauren Bacall - popcorn and red wine

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Lauren Bacall


  • Campaigned for the Democrat Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson and Harry S. Truman
  • Picked her own films 
  • Campaigned for Robert Kennedy for the U.S. Senate in 1964
  • Took care of the sick "The African Queen" cast and crew while on location in Uganda and the Congo
  • One of the 80 signatures protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee
  • Stopped Howard Hawks from making her into one of his "girls" and resisted his sexual intentions 
  • A Part of the Committee of the First Amendment

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