Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 - August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. She was known initially for her alluring, sultry presence and her distinctive, husky voice. She began a career as a model for the Walter Thornton Modeling Agency before making her film debut at the age of 19 as the leading lady opposite her future husband Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not in 1944. Lauren continued in the film noir genre with appearances alongside her new husband in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), and she starred in the romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. She portrayed the female lead in Written on the Wind (1956) which is considered one of Douglas Sirk's seminal films. She starred alongside Paul Newman in the 1966 mystery film Harper. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film The Shootist (1976) by Wayne's personal request. She also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). During the final stage of her career she gained newfound success with a younger audience for major supporting roles in the films Misery (1990), Dogville (2003) and the English dubs of the animated films Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and Ernest & Celestine (2012).
Bacall married actor Humphrey Bogart in 1945 and they had two children: Stephen and Leslie, but he died in 1957. Then she had a relationship with Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death and then met and began a relationship with Jason Robards. They married and had a son named Sam, but the couple divorced in 1969.
Bacall died on August 12, 2014, after suffering a massive stroke, just one month before her 90th birthday. She was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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