It seems as though almost every Hollywood romance involved at least a 20-year age gap between lovers. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were 25 years apart in age, but it didn’t get in the way of their iconic, happy-yet-short-lived marriage. The age difference was actually the least of their worries.
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Bogart had a laundry list of failed marriages, and Bacall put her career on hold in order to focus on their relationship. In the end, Bacall wrote in her memoir, “No one has written a romance better than we lived it.” So, what was so special about these two? And how did he win her over, considering she admitted to feeling “no lightning bolt” when she first met him.