Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske
on September 16, 1924 in New York City.
Her father was a salesman and her mother worked as a secretary.
They divorced when she was five years old.
Young Lauren wanted to be a dancer,
but changed her mind when she discovered acting.
She took up studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York
and performed in small off-broadway productions.
Lauren was modeling and the attractive teen was chosen to appear
for the front cover of the high circulation magazine "Harper's Bazaar".
Mrs. Howard Hawks showed her husband the photo
of the young model and he gave her a screen test.
Bacall turned out to be just right for his up coming project
and so he cast her in "To Have and Have Not".
Starring Humphrey Bogart, the film was a great success
and propelled Bacall to stardom. Not only did it launch her film career,
but the the two actors fell in love, which is evident in the film,
and married one another in 1945.
They eventually had two children and five movies together.
Humphrey Bogart, died from cancer of the throat on the 14th of January 1957:
he had been a fairly heavy cigarette smoker.
The shock to her system was great
and she moved to New York and returned to acting on stage.
Bacall regrouped and returned to film and she did television work as well.
She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar
for "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996).
Actor Jason Robards married her in 1961
and they had one son. They divorced in 1969.
She won Tonys for two musicals:
Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981).
She wrote two autobiographies:
"Lauren Bacall, By Myself" and "Lauren Bacall Now".
HER FILMOGRAPHY
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Confidential Agent (1945)
Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
Young Man With a Horn (1950)
Bright Leaf (1950)
How To Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Woman's World (1954)
The Cobweb, Blood Alley (1955)
Written on the Wind (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
The Gift of Love (1958)
Flame Over India (1959)
Shock Treatment (1964)
Sex and the Single Girl (1965)
Harper (1966)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
The Shootist (1976)
H.E.A.L.T.H. (1979)
The Fan (1981)
Appointment With Death (1988)
Mr. North (1988)
Tree of Hands (1989)
Misery, Innocent Victim (1990)
All I Want for Christmas, A Star for Two (1991)
Prêt-à-Porter: Ready to Wear (1994)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
The Line King: Al Hirschfeld (1996)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Le Jour et la Nuit (1997)
The Man Who Had Everything (1998) (voice)
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (1999)
Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999) (voice)
Diamonds (1999)
The Venice Project (1999)
Presence of Mind (1999)
Dogville (2003)
The Limit (2003)
Birth (2004)
