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Old Hollywood

This A list mostly movie actress was married to a permanent A list mostly movie actor.

When the actor became terminally ill, his actress wife started having an affair with this permanent A+ list singer/sometime actor.

Lauren Bacall

Humphrey Bogart

Frank Sinatra

While Bogie Was in Bed, Dying With Cancer, Lauren Bacall was Having an Affair with Sinatra

Even though she was 19 and he was 45, sultry Lauren Bacall and gritty Humphrey Bogart were meant for each other.

But they were meant for others too. Throughout their marriage Bogie carried on an affair with a Mexican starlet turned secretary. And Bacall – known as Betty to their pals – fell madly in love with Frank Sinatra and began a steamy relationship with him while Bogie was on his death bed with throat cancer.

Bacall, who died at her home in Los Angeles in August 2014 of a stroke, fell in with a fast crowd when she wed Bogart.

‘I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life,’ she said. The most famous actors, writers, artists were now in her inner circle because of they sought out her husband.

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Bogie and Bacall formed a group they called the Holmby Hills Rat Pack – a branch of the famed Las Vegas tribe, named after the neighborhood bordering Beverly Hills and Bel Air. It was a tight inner circle of stars dedicated to drinking, laughing and partying into the wee hours.

Sinatra was pack master; Judy Garland, first vice-president; Sid Luft, Judy’s husband, the cage master; superagent Irving ‘Swifty’ Lazar was recording secretary; novelist Nathaniel Benchley, historian; and Bacall, den mother. They were constantly together.

Once, after a New Year’s party in Palm Springs, Bacall, known as ‘Betty’, wanted she and Bogie to stay and hang out with Frank, since the blue-eyed crooner did not have a woman with him that night.

Bogie insisted they go home and told her, ’You must always remember we have a life of our own that has nothing to do with Frank. He chose to live the way he’s living – alone. It’s too bad if he’s lonely, but that’s his choice. We have our road to travel, never forget that – we can’t live his life’, writes biographer Kitty Kelley.

When Bogie learned he had throat cancer in February 1956, the diagnosis, surgery and radiation came too late and one of Hollywood’s biggest stars was told he had less than a year to live.

Sinatra, came to visit him frequently, kept him laughing by recounting the practical jokes going on with the other Rat Pack members.- Source