I don't recall seeing any movies with them together.

They only did four movies together but they had a famous romance and
a long lived marriage in real life as well as on-screen chemistry.
Some time after he passed away she had an affair with Frank Sinatra
and then married some other actor briefly but later in life she
said, "I've been lucky: I had one great marriage, I have three
great children and four grandchildren. I am still alive."

A good take on things.

As for Bacall, empty, zero, zip.

She made a ton of movies and was in a lot of Broadway plays as well;
she was even on TV a few times starting in the 50s.

I recognize her as a sort of cultural icon, little
more than that - of course, I've been largely
spared the noise of tv and the movies, which might
be some consolation of a future decline in old age.

Gloria Cocktail #2

A fairly hefty cocktail. I might increase the
gin and cut the others

Some of mine leaned that way too. Lately I've been playing around
with varations on short, strong, gin forward cocktails based
on traditional martinis or negronis but with a hint of fruit.
Tonight's pre dinner cocktail as I type away is a wet (2:1) martini
with a teaspoon of cranberry cocktail and a lemon squeeze, no olive.
It's a beautiful very pale pink the same colour as if I had added a
dash of Angostura bitters, with just a subtle touch of berry
flavour. Very nice and will make it again.

Sounds attractive, but (my taste only) I might
like the dash of bitters.

It's interesting how wet and dry have changed
meaning in the cocktail world:

Dry Martini
categories: booze
yield: 1

2 oz dry gin
1 oz dry vermouth
1 ds Curacao
2 ds orange bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.

Louis' Mixed Drinks, 1905

Southwest One
1 oz vodka
1 oz orange juice
1 oz Campari
New York Magazine, 30 Jun 1969

Cutting the sweetness and giving a kick, killing
two birds with one stone. I wonder whether a nice
citrusy gin such as a Tanqueray might do well
instead of the vodka.

I bet it would.

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