| Lauren Bacall  AKA Betty Joan Perske
Born: 16-Sep-1924
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Key Largo Lauren Bacall studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She worked as a model and appeared off-Broadway. She was barely 20 when she starred in her first film, To Have and Have Not (1944) with Humphrey Bogart, whom she married soon after. Bacall reportedly practiced for months to get her voice at that low, dusky pitch for the role. It became her trademark, and eventually became her day-in day-out voice. Her other films with Bogart include The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo. Memorable titles among her many, many other movies include How to Marry a Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe, Harper with Paul Newman, The Shootist with John Wayne, and Murder on the Orient Express with Sean Connery.
Bogart and Bacall both suffered from a mild vocal disorder that has been named for them, Bogart-Bacall Syndrome. BBS is now the medical term for an ongoing hoarseness that often afflicts actors, singers or TV/radio voice workers who routinely speak in a very low pitch.
Her cousin, Shimon Peres, was Prime Minister of Israel in the 1980s.
Father: William Perske
Mother: Natalie Weinstein
Husband: Humphrey Bogart (m. 21-May-1945, d. 14-Jan-1957, throat cancer)
Son: Stephen Humphrey Bogart (mystery writer, b. 1949)
Daughter: Leslie Howard Bogart (nurse, b. 23-Aug-1952)
Boyfriend: Frank Sinatra (dated 1957-58, briefly engaged)
Husband: Jason Robards (actor, m. 1961, div. 1969)
Son: Sam Robards (actor, b. 16-Dec-1961)
High School: Julia Richman High School, New York, NY (1942)
John Kerry for President
Golden Globe 1996 for The Mirror Has Two Faces (supporting)
Kennedy Center Honor 1997
National Book Award Lauren Bacall: By Myself 1979
Tony 1970 for Applause!
Tony 1981 for Woman of the Year
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1724 Vine Street (motion pictures)
Endorsement of Arby's 1998
Endorsement of Liggett Group Chesterfield cigarettes (1947)
Romanian Ancestry Maternal
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Former Smoker
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Walker (13-Feb-2007)
Manderlay (16-May-2005)
Birth (08-Sep-2004)
Dogville (19-May-2003)
Diamonds (6-Sep-1999)
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (22-Feb-1999)
Get Bruce (24-Jan-1999) Herself
Presence of Mind (1999)
Day and Night (1997)
My Fellow Americans (20-Dec-1996)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996)
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (27-Sep-1996) Herself
Prêt-à-Porter (25-Dec-1994)
A Foreign Field (10-Sep-1993)
All I Want for Christmas (11-Nov-1991)
Misery (30-Nov-1990)
Mr. North (22-Jul-1988)
Appointment with Death (15-Apr-1988)
HealtH (7-Apr-1982)
The Fan (15-May-1981)
The Shootist (11-Aug-1976)
Murder on the Orient Express (24-Nov-1974)
Harper (23-Feb-1966)
Sex and the Single Girl (25-Dec-1964)
Shock Treatment (22-Jul-1964)
North West Frontier (29-Apr-1960)
The Gift of Love (11-Feb-1958)
Designing Woman (16-May-1957)
Written on the Wind (Dec-1956)
Blood Alley (1-Oct-1955)
The Cobweb (7-Jun-1955)
Woman's World (28-Sep-1954)
How to Marry a Millionaire (5-Nov-1953)
Bright Leaf (16-Jun-1950)
Young Man with a Horn (9-Feb-1950)
Key Largo (16-Jul-1948)
Dark Passage (5-Sep-1947)
The Big Sleep (23-Aug-1946)
Confidential Agent (2-Nov-1945)
To Have and Have Not (11-Oct-1944)
Official Website:
http://www.laurenbacall.com/
Author of books:
Now (1994, memoir)
By Myself and Then Some (2005, memoir)
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