Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)

Lauren Bacall was an American film, and stage actress, and model. She started as the leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944). She appeared with Bogart in these films: The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), Key Largo (1948), How to Marry A Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe, and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. On Broadway she won the Tony Award for musicals such as: Applause (1970), and Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). She was married to Humphrey Bogart from 1945-57 (till his death in 1957). After that she married Jason Robards in 1961, and divorced him in 1969. In 1999 she was ranked #20 among top 25 actresses on the AFI’s 100 stars list of the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She died of a stroke on August 12, 2014. She was 89 years old. R.I.P. Lauren Bacall

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