Lauren Bacall
American actress (1924-2014) · United States · Actors · Died at 89
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Something wrong?She walked into her first film at nineteen opposite Humphrey Bogart, married him, and spent the next seven decades refusing to disappear - noir siren to Broadway double-Tony winner to the voice in Howl's Moving Castle.
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The ForgerFilm, Anne-Marie2010Academy Honorary AwardAward2007
The WalkerFilm, Natalie Van Miter2005“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.”In their words8 August 2005On Tom Cruise, Time magazine (August 8, 2005)“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”In their wordsLauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005); also widely misquoted as "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks... he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali.”In their words6 May 2005Interview with Larry King on CNN (May 6, 2005)
ManderlayFilm, 2005Mam2002
V Graham NortonSeries1999
DiamondsFilm, Sin-Dee1998
Vivement dimancheSeries1997Kennedy Center HonorsAwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleAward, 19971996“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?”In their wordsInterview of 1996, quoted in "Lauren Bacall Dies at 89; in a Bygone Hollywood, She Purred Every Word" by Enid Nemy, in The New York TimesGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion PictureAwardHonorary CésarAward1994
Chicago HopeSeries, Samara Visco Klein
Prêt-à-PorterFilm, 1994Slim Chrysler1992Donostia AwardAwardGolden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAwardVicki!Series1990“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”In their words1 November 1990As quoted in The Daily Mail (November 1, 1990) and cited in "Lauren Bacall: 14 of her best quotes", The Guardian (August 13, 2014)
MiseryFilm, 1990Marcia Sindell1985“How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...”In their words10 January 1985Hosting a Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, as quoted in The New York Times (January 10, 1985)1981Tony Award for Best Actress in a MusicalAward
The FanFilm, 1981Sally Ross1980National Book AwardAward1979Lucien Barrière Literary AwardAward1974
The Rockford FilesSeries, Kendall Warren1970Tony Award for Best Actress in a MusicalAward1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries1967Hasty Pudding Woman of the YearAward1966
HarperFilm, Elaine Sampson1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1959
North West FrontierFilm, Catherine Wyatt1956
Tony AwardsSeries1955
Blood AlleyFilm, Cathy Grainger1953
How to Marry a MillionaireFilm, Schatze Page1950
The Colgate Comedy HourSeries1947
Dark PassageFilm, Irene Jansen1945
Confidential AgentFilm, Rose Cullen1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1924Born16 September 1924Also in Deutsch
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, When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all.
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SpotifyFilmography 40
SHScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
DTDiana Vreeland: The Eye Has to TravelTFThe Forger
CCCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
SKScooby-Doo! and the Goblin KingTWThe Walker
TTThese Foolish ThingsMAManderlay
BIBirth
DCDogville Confessions
DODogville
MPMadeline: Lost in ParisDIDiamonds
TFThe Mirror Has Two Faces
MAMy Fellow AmericansPPPrêt-à-Porter
LALa Classe américaine
ACAll I Want For ChristmasMIMisery
ADAppointment with Death
MNMr. NorthTFThe Fan
TSThe Shootist
MEMurder on the Orient ExpressHAHarper
SGSex and the Single GirlNFNorth West Frontier
DWDesigning Woman
WWWritten on the WindBABlood Alley
TCThe Cobweb
WWWoman's WorldHMHow to Marry a Millionaire
YHYoung Man with a Horn
BLBright Leaf
KLKey LargoDPDark Passage
TSThe Big Sleep
TNTo Have and Have NotCAConfidential Agent180 credits on file
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VNV Graham Norton
FGFamily Guy
TSThe SopranosVDVivement dimanche
TVThe ViewCHChicago Hope
IPIntimate Portrait
APApostrophes
LDLes Rendez-vous du dimancheTFThe Rockford Files
GPGreat PerformancesTSThe Dick Cavett ShowTCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TSThe Mike Douglas Show
DKDr. KildareTATony Awards
TOThe Oscars
WLWhat's My Line?THThe Colgate Comedy Hour
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Betty Joan Perske became Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944), playing the leading lady opposite Humphrey Bogart, whom she later married. She followed with a run of noir - The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Key Largo - before pivoting to romantic comedy in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Designing Woman (1957), and melodrama in Written on the Wind (1956). Broadway gave her two Tonys, for Applause (1970) and Woman of Year (1981). Decades later she found a second wind: a Golden Globe and SAG Award for The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), and a late-career stretch that brought her Misery, Dogville, Birth, and the English dub of Howl's Moving Castle. The American Film Institute named her the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood; she received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 and remained working until her death in 2014.
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