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Lauren Bacall
Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures.
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entertainment · American actress (1924–2014) · film actor · model · spokesperson · stage actor · voice actor · television actor · singer · actor · writer · also Lauren Bacall, Betty Joan Perske, Betty Perske, Loren Beykoll, Bacall
Born 16 September 1924 · Died 12 August 2014 · Q104000
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Lauren Bacall
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Lauren Bacall's 3 Children: All About the Golden Age Actress' Daughter and Sons (Including One Who Starred in “Gossip Girl”)
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2024· 3 entries
collider: Lauren Bacall’s Only Oscar Nom Came Thanks to One of Barbra Streisand’s Best Directed Movies
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Yahoo: Lauren Bacall at 100: A Hollywood Casualty Who Fought Back
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New York Daily News: The commanding Lauren Bacall at 100
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2023· 1 entry
SheKnows: Lauren Bacall Was Reportedly ‘Terrified’ To Start Dating This Legendary Ex
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: From the archive: When Melvyn Bragg met Lauren Bacall
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The day Lauren Bacall sat me down on her lap
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: The day Lauren Bacall admired my tights
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Lauren Bacall's belongings sell for $3.6m at auction that attracted global interest
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The Guardian: Lauren Bacall Collection: star's belongings auctioned in New York
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The Guardian: Lauren Bacall honoured in Oscars ceremony
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The Guardian: Baftas pay tribute to Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall
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2014· 10 entries
The Guardian: Lauren Bacall remembered by Terry Hands
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Yahoo! Sports: Actress Lauren Bacall dies at 89
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Bacall died after suffering a stroke at her apartment in The Dakota, the Upper West Side building near Central Park in Manhattan
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Died 2014-08-12.
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“You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.”
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As a guest voice appearance in the Family Guy episode "Mom's the Word"
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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
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“Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.”
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“She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.”
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“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
In recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures
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2006· 1 entry
The first volume of Lauren Bacall by Myself was reprinted as By Myself and Then Some with an extra chapter
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1999· 1 entry
Bacall starred on Broadway in a revival of Noël Coward's Waiting in the Wings
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1997).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for The Mirror Has Two Faces (1997).
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And she was voted one of the 25 most significant female movie stars in history in 1999 by the American Film Institute
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary César (1996).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Portrayed Claire Zachanassian in the Friedrich Dürrenmatt play The Visit at the Chichester Festival
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Was cast in her friend Ingrid Bergman's role in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs
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1993· 1 entry
Bacall was very active in television, pairing again with her lifelong friend Gregory Peck and his daughter Cecilia Peck in Arthur Penn's television movie The Portrait and costarring with an all-star European cast in A Fo
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (1992).
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Bacall took a small but central role as James Caan's agent in Rob Reiner's Misery, based on the novel by Stephen Kingand an important role in the British television show, Fredrick Forsyth Presents: A Little Piece of Suns
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1988· 1 entry
With supporting roles in Danny Huston's Mr
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Woman of the Year (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Lucien Barrière Literary Award (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Bacall costarred in The Shootist with John Wayne, with whom she had worked in Blood Alley (1955)
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1972· 1 entry
And 1984, an award inspired by the fictional trophy in All About Eve
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Applause (1970).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Bacall appeared in two episodes of Craig Stevens's Mr
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1961· 1 entry
The couple drove to Ensenada, Mexico, where they wed
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1959· 1 entry
And went on to a successful stage career
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1957· 1 entry
Four months after Bogart's death on January 14
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1952· 1 entry
Gave campaign speeches for Democratic presidential contender Adlai Stevenson
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1945· 2 entries
Bacall married Humphrey Bogart; she was 20 and Bogart was 45
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And sat on a piano as Vice President Harry S
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1942· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Bacall studied for a year at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she dated classmate Kirk Douglas
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1924· 2 entries
In the Bronx, New York City, the only child of William Perske (1889–1982), who sold medical instruments, and Natalie (née Weinstein-Bacal; 1901–1969), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal
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Born 1924-09-16.
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