Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks. She began her career as a model. She first appeared as a leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), as well as comedic roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. Bacall worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
In 1999, Bacall was ranked 20th out of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
Bacall died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89. According to her grandson Jamie Bogart, the actress died after suffering from a stroke.
Birthday: 16 September 1924
Birth place: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
The Big Sleep
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Dogville
Misery
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
How to Marry a Millionaire
Prêt-à-Porter
Birth
Murder on the Orient Express
Appointment with Death
Key Largo
To Have and Have Not
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Harper
The Shootist
Eve
Designing Woman
The Walker
Sex and the Single Girl
Young Man with a Horn
Diamonds
Blood Alley
Dark Passage
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
My Fellow Americans
Get Bruce!
Written on the Wind
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
The Fan
HealtH
Bright Leaf
The Cobweb
Mr. North
North West Frontier
Presence of Mind
The Forger
Shock Treatment
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Portrait
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