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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures". Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in To Have and Have Not (1944). She continued in the film noir genre with appearances with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), and she starred in the romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film The Shootist (1976) by Wayne's personal request. She also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).
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Born
1924-09-16
Birth Place
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Famous As
Actress model
Place Of Death
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Political Ideology
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Spouse(s)
Humphrey Bogart ​ ​ ( m.  1945; died 1957) ​ Jason Robards ​ ​ ( m.  1961; div.  1969) ​
Children
3: Sam Robards , Stephen Humphrey Bogart , Leslie Bogart
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Vogue

17 Iconic Photos Of Lauren Bacall That You Simply Must See

Whether it was her bold, thick eyebrows or that elegant pillar box-red lip, Lauren Bacall’s approach to beauty feels as relevant today as it was back in Hollywood’s golden age. Her look was always an effortless marriage of androgyny and femininity – think soft kiss curls paired with a boyish deep side-parting – and perfectly complemented the hallmark “purr” that was her naturally deep voice.
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Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart’s Granddaughter, Brooke, Is A Former Model And All Grown Up

Legendary screen icons Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart have a granddaughter named Brooke and she’s all grown up! Brooke is now 32 years old and first began making headlines in the early 2000s with a modeling career, but lately, she’s been living a much quieter life. Bacall and Bogart were married for 12 years before Bogart’s death, and they have several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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To Have and Have Not 1944 Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Summer 1940, the island colony of Martinique controlled by pro-German Vichy France. Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) owns a small fishing boat he rents to tourists with the help of drunk, loud-mouthed first mate Eddie (Walter Brennan) for whom he has deep affection. Harry steers clear of politics, but when beautiful Marie (“Slim”) Browning (18 year-old Lauren Bacall-her film debut) needs to get off the island, he agrees to secretly pick up and transport Resistance members Paul and Helene de Bursac in order to pay her transport.
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Damian Lewis recalls hilarious exchange between Helen McCrory and Lauren Bacall in lengthy tribute to his wife

Damian Lewis has written a lengthy and emotional tribute to his wife Helen McCrory, who has died aged 52.On Friday (16 April), Lewis shared a note to Twitter announcing that the Peaky Blinders star had died peacefully at home after “a heroic battle with cancer”.Writing in The Sunday Times today, Lewis, who married McCrory in 2007, four years after they first met performing in a play together, described the actor as “a meteor in our life”.In the piece, Lewis recalled a hilarious encounter McCrory had with the legendary actor Lauren Bacall, who came backstage to see her after she...
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