Lauren Bacall
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1924-09-16
Place of birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
The Big Sleep
1946
7.60
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
6.70
Dogville
2003
7.77
Misery
1990
7.80
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
6.80
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
5.20
Birth
2004
6.02
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
7.10
Appointment with Death
1988
6.10
Key Largo
1948
7.50
To Have and Have Not
1945
7.46
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
8.00
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
6.70
Harper
1966
6.70
The Shootist
1976
7.00
Eve
2008
6.20
Designing Woman
1957
6.60
The Walker
2007
5.30
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
6.60
Young Man with a Horn
1950
6.30
Diamonds
1999
5.30
Blood Alley
1955
5.90
Dark Passage
1947
7.30
My Fellow Americans
1996
6.04
Get Bruce!
1999
6.20
Written on the Wind
1956
6.91
The Fan
1981
5.90
HealtH
1980
5.40
Bright Leaf
1950
5.90
The Cobweb
1955
5.80
Mr. North
1988
5.20
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
8.10
North West Frontier
1959
6.70
Presence of Mind
2000
4.60
The Forger
2011
5.75
Shock Treatment
1964
6.71
The Portrait
1993
5.70
The Capote Tapes
2021
6.60
The Limit
2004
3.70
Woman's World
1954
7.10
Doris Day: It's Magic
1998
0.00
The Gift of Love
1958
7.20
Confidential Agent
1945
5.60
Day and Night
1997
2.20
Parkinson at 50
2021
10.00
New York at the Movies
2002
10.00
Applause
1973
6.10
Madeline: Lost in Paris
1999
6.70
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
0.00
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
10.00
A Star for Two
1991
0.00
Super Duper Bloopers
1986
6.00
Manderlay
2005
6.89
Rat Pack
2022
9.00
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
1987
0.00
All I Want for Christmas
1991
5.60
Bacall on Bogart
1988
6.00
Blithe Spirit
1956
8.00
These Foolish Things
2006
5.90
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
4.80
Dogville Confessions
2004
6.80
The Hollywood Ten
1950
6.60
La Classe américaine
1993
7.60
Perfect Gentlemen
1978
4.00
Pulp Cinema
2001
0.00
The Venice Project
1999
0.00
A Foreign Field
1993
0.00
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
1999
7.40
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
7.70
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
8.00
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
6.50
Breakdowns of 1949
1949
6.00
Blow-Ups of 1946
1946
6.00
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
7.50
A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
6.00
Marilyn
1963
6.00
Dinner at Eight
1989
3.00
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
2017
6.20
Kisses
1991
0.00
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
7.00
Wide Blue Yonder
2012
5.00
Greta Garbo: A Lone Star
2001
0.00
Tree of Hands
1989
0.00
Amália Traída
2000
0.00
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
5.80
The Petrified Forest
1955
6.30
On The Bridge
1993
5.00
Night of 100 Stars
1982
6.50
Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière
2017
7.80
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
2024
6.80
The Road to Manderlay
2005
0.00