Lauren Bacall
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 ...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
2022
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
Misery
1990
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
The Shootist
1976
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
2024
Perfect Gentlemen
1978
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
1999
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
1996
Birth
2004
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
The Cobweb
1955
Tree of Hands
1989
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
Dinner at Eight
1989
To Have and Have Not
1945
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
The Limit
2004
Dogville
2003
All at Sea
2012
Heart of the Festival
2002
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
The Venice Project
1999
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Real Story of the Three Little Kittens
1990
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
Dark Passage
1947
Marilyn Monroe: Portrait of a Legend...Suicide Or Murder?
1995
All I Want For Christmas
1991
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
2003
The Petrified Forest
1955
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
Applause
1973
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966