THE DEATH OF LAUREN BACALL

Lauren Bacall was born under the name Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York City, New York on September 16, 1924. A secretary named Natalie Weinstein-Bacal and a salesman named William Perske were her parents and she had no siblings. And starting in 1944, Lauren Bacall starred in almost nearly sixty films. She married Humphrey Bogart one year after she started becoming famous in 1945 and they produced both a son and a daughter together. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart did four films together. A happy marriage and a happy family fell apart for Lauren Bacall when Humphrey Bogart died in 1957. And after a brief rebound relationship with Frank Sinatra, she married Jason Robards Jr. from 1961 to 1969. They produced a son together, but their marriage couldn't survive his alcoholism. Lauren Bacall starred in some of the greatest films. And she was one of the most sought after actresses of her generation. Lauren Bacall died of a stroke at age 89 on August 12, 2014 in New York City, New York. Lauren Bacall was a great presence in film and she will be missed.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Becall and Humphry Bogart after he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the classic film The African Queen

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the film Dark Passage

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in the Petrified Forest

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the Big Sleep

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Becall in the film Written in the Wind

Gregory Peck and Lauren Becall in Designing Women

Lauren Becall in Sex and the Single Girl

Kirk Douglass (Father of Michael Douglass) and Lauren Becall in Young Man with a Horn

Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall enjoy a conversation on the balcony in How to Marry a Millionaire

Lauren Becall and Betty Grable in How to Marry a Millionaire

Lauren Becall and her How to Marry a Millionaire costar Marilyn Monroe

Jason Robards Jr., Lauren Becall and their son between them both

Lauren Becall and President of the United States Harry Truman

Lauren Becall in the film Applause

Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Becall in Murder on the Orient Express

Lauren Becall and John Wayne in the Shootest

Lauren Becall on her free time

Lauren Becall and Barbara Streisand in the Mirror Has Two Faces

Lauren Becall in the sixth season of the television series the Sapranos

Receiving their Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2009. are Hollywood legends Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and Gordon Willis