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Lauren Bacall was among the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood stars and her legend, and the legend of Bogie and Bacall - the hard-boiled couple who could fight and make up with the best of them - started almost from the moment she appeared on screen.
Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx to Natalie Weinstein-Bacall, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey. That is where the wife of director Howard Hawks first saw the ethereal young blonde and convinced her husband to give the aspiring actress a screen test.
It was Hawks who gave Betty a new name, Lauren. The last name Bacall was the maiden name of her mother.In 1944 Hawks cast Bacall in the role of Marie 'Slim' Browning in the film To Have and Have Not based on a story by Ernest Hemingway opposite Humphrey Bogart as a rugged boat captain named Ste
TOP 10 LAUREN BACALL FILMS:
'I mean, that was what started the look -- was nerves -- just trying to keep my head steady,' Bacall said, according to CNN.
Lauren Bacall was among the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood stars and her legend, and the legend of Bogie and Bacall - the hard-boiled couple who could fight and make up with the best of them - started almost from the moment she appeared on screen.
Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx to Natalie Weinstein-Bacall, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey. That is where the wife of director Howard Hawks first saw the ethereal young blonde and convinced her husband to give the aspiring actress a screen test.
It was Hawks who gave Betty a new name, Lauren. The last name Bacall was the maiden name of her mother.In 1944 Hawks cast Bacall in the role of Marie 'Slim' Browning in the film To Have and Have Not based on a story by Ernest Hemingway opposite Humphrey Bogart as a rugged boat captain named Ste
TOP 10 LAUREN BACALL FILMS:
- To Have and Have Not
- The Big Sleep
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- Blood Alley
- Dark Passage
- Key Largo
- Designing Woman
- Written in the Wind
- Murder On The Orient Express
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
'I mean, that was what started the look -- was nerves -- just trying to keep my head steady,' Bacall said, according to CNN.
