Legendary Actress Lauren Bacall has passed away today at age 89. :( She was married to Humphrey Bogart.
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Lauren Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske, was an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
She first emerged 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, gaining 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 #20 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." [source: wikipedia]
Filmography
Year - Title - Role
1944 - To Have and Have Not - Marie 'Slim' Browning
1945 - Confidential Agent - Rose Cullen
1946 - The Big Sleep - Vivian Sternwood Rutledge - With Humphrey Bogart
1946 - Two Guys from Milwaukee - Herself
1947 - Dark Passage - Irene Jansen - With Humphrey Bogart
1948 - Key Largo - Nora Temple - With Humphrey Bogart
1950 - Young Man with a Horn - Amy North
1950 - Bright Leaf - Sonia Kovac
1953 - How to Marry a Millionaire - Schatze Page
1954 - Woman's World - Elizabeth Burns
1955 - The Cobweb - Meg Faversen Rinehart
1955 - Blood Alley - Cathy Grainger
1956 - Patterns - Lobby lady near elevators
1956 - Written on the Wind - Lucy Moore Hadley
1957 - Designing Woman - Marilla Brown Hagen
1958 - The Gift of Love - Julie Beck
1959 - North West Frontier - Catherine Wyatt
1964 - Shock Treatment - Dr. Edwina Beighley
1964 - Sex and the Single Girl - Sylvia Broderick
1966 - Harper - Elaine Sampson
1973 - Applause - Margo Channing
1974 - Murder on the Orient Express - Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard
1976 - The Shootist - Bond Rogers
1978 - Perfect Gentleman - Mrs. Lizzie Martin
1980 - Health - Esther Brill
1981 - The Fan - Sally Ross
1988 - Appointment with Death - Lady Westholme
1988 - Mr. North - Mrs. Cranston
1989 - The Tree of Hands - Marsha Archdale
1989 - Dinner at Eight - Carlotta Vance
1990 - Misery - Marcia Sindell
1991 - All I Want for Christmas - Lillian Brooks
1993 - The Portrait - Fanny Church
1993 - A Foreign Field - Lisa
1994 - Prêt-à -Porter: Ready to Wear - Slim Chrysler
1995 - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1996 - The Mirror Has Two Faces - Hannah Morgan
1996 - My Fellow Americans - Margaret Kramer
1997 - Day and Night - Sonia
1999 - Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke - Doris Duke (elderly)
1999 - Madeline: Lost in Paris - Madame Lacroque
1999 - The Venice Project - Countess Camilla Volta
1999 - Presence of Mind - Mado Remei
1999 - Diamonds - Sin-Dee
2003 - The Limit (a.k.a. Gone Dark) - May Markham
2003 - Dogville - Ma Ginger
2004 - Howl's Moving Castle - Witch of the Waste (voice)
2004 - Birth - Eleanor
2005 - Manderlay - Mam
2006 - These Foolish Things - Dame Lydia
2007 - The Walker - Natalie Van Miter
2008 - Eve - Grandma
2008 - Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King - The Grand Witch (voice)
2010 - Wide Blue Yonder - May
2010 - Firedog - Posche (voice)
2012 - The Forger - Annemarie Sterling
2014 - Ernest & Celestine - The Grey One's voice
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