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As a school girl, she originally wanted to be a dancer, but later switched gears to head into acting. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, after attending She was educated at Highland Manor, a private boarding school in Tarrytown, New York through the generosity of wealthy uncles , and then at Julia Richman High School, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions. Out of school, she entered modeling and, because of her beauty, appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, one of the most popular magazines in the US.
The wife of famed director Howard Hawks spotted the picture in the publication and arranged with her husband to have Lauren take a screen test.
As a result, which was entirely positive, she was given the part of Marie Browning in To Have and Have Not , a thriller opposite Humphrey Bogart , when she was just 19 years old. This not only set the tone for a fabulous career but also one of Hollywood's greatest love stories she married Bogart in It was also the first of several Bogie-Bacall films. The mystery, in the role of Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, was a resounding success. Although she was making one film a year, each production would be eagerly awaited by the public.
In , again with her husband, Lauren starred in the thriller Dark Passage The film kept movie patrons on the edge of their seats. The following year, she starred with Bogart, Edward G. Robinson , and Lionel Barrymore in Key Largo The crime drama was even more of a nail biter than her previous film. In , Lauren starred in Bright Leaf , a drama set in It was a film of note because she appeared without her husband - her co-star was Gary Cooper. The film, with co-stars Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable , was a smash hit all across the theaters of America.
After filming Designing Woman , which was released in , Humphrey Bogart died on January 14 from throat cancer. Devastated at being a widow, Lauren returned to the silver screen with The Gift of Love in opposite Robert Stack.
The production turned out to be a big disappointment. Undaunted, Lauren moved back to New York City and appeared in several Broadway plays to huge critical acclaim. She was enjoying acting before live audiences and the audiences in turn enjoyed her fine performances.
Lauren was away from the big screen for five years, but she returned in to appear in Shock Treatment and Sex and the Single Girl The latter film was a comedy starring Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis. Alternating her time between films and the stage, Lauren returned in 's Murder on the Orient Express The film, based on Agatha Christie 's best-selling book was a huge hit. It also garnered Ingrid Bergman her third Oscar. Actually, the huge star-studded cast helped to ensure its success.
The film was Wayne's last - he died from cancer in For Lauren's next film role, she appeared in a large ensemble film, HealtH , which again paired her with James Garner , and in , she played an actress being stalked by a crazed admirer in The Fan The thriller was absolutely fascinating with Lauren in the lead role, again playing opposite her good friend James Garner , making three straight screen roles with Lauren opposite James Garner. After that production, Lauren was away from films again, this time for seven years.
In the interim, she again appeared on the stages of Broadway. When she returned, it was for the filming of 's Appointment with Death and Mr. North After 's Misery and several made for television films, Lauren appeared in 's My Fellow Americans , a comedy romp with Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two ex-presidents and their escapades. Despite her age and failing health, she made a small-scale comeback in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki 's Howl's Moving Castle "Howl's Moving Castle," based on the young-adult novel by Diana Wynne Jones as the Witch of the Waste, and several other roles through , but thereafter acting endeavors for the beloved actress became increasingly rare.
Lauren Bacall died on 12 August , five weeks short of her 90th birthday. Sign In. Edit Lauren Bacall. Showing all items. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the Sexiest Stars in film history 6 Mother of actor Sam Robards , Stephen H.
Bogart and Leslie Bogart. When interviewed on the subject in a recent British television program hosted by former model Twiggy , Bacall said she had heard the gunshot but assumed that it was a car tire bursting or a vehicle backfiring. Shortly after Humphrey Bogart 's death, she announced her engagement to Frank Sinatra to the press.
Sinatra promptly backed out. Her screen persona was totally based and modeled after Howard Hawks 's wife, Slim. She even uses her name in To Have and Have Not Still undiscovered, Bacall volunteered as a hostess at the New York chapter of the Stage Door Canteen, working Monday nights when theaters were closed. Having lost her job as a showroom model and quit acting school for lack of funds, the teenage Bacall found work as a Broadway theater usher.
George Jean Nathan voted her the prettiest usher of the season in the pages of "Esquire". Her distinctive throaty voice did make her a natural for commercials, and later in her career, Bacall voiced numerous spots, including plugs for PBS. Bacall considered the experience horrible. The following year, Bogart died of esophageal cancer, leaving her with their children, Stephen and Leslie. Bacall was 32 at the time. But days after she accepted his proposal in , The Los Angeles Herald reported on the impending nuptial on page 1 and Sinatra broke things off, refusing to speak to her for two decades.
In she married Oscar-winning actor Jason Robards , a relationship that lasted until Their son, actor Sam Robards , survives them. She summed up that relationship in the People interview:. Bacall did not make another film until Shock Treatment , a murder mystery set in a mental institution. During her second marriage, Bacall starred in relatively few films as well.
She and Robards were divorced in , and, shortly after, Bacall was approached to play the lead role in a new Broadway musical, Applause , which was based on the film All About Eve. Despite not being a singer, Bacall accepted the role and debuted in the spring of playing fictitious famed thespian Margo Channing. Bacall was a great success, and earned a Tony for Best Actress. She won her second Tony in for a semi-autobiographical role in the play Woman of the Year , the same year she was seen portraying a Broadway star in the big-screen thriller The Fan.
By this time, Bacall had lived a full life, having been an insider to the world of Hollywood and earned considerable respect as an actress, both onscreen and onstage. Bacall wrote her first memoir, By Myself , in , which won a National Book Award, and published a second part, Now , in Both volumes openly discussed difficult parts of her life, including the alcoholism of both of her husbands, despite the fact that some of the topics were relatively controversial for the time. Around this time, Bacall earned her first Oscar nomination for supporting actress in the film The Mirror Has Two Faces , starring and directed by Barbra Streisand.
In her later years, Bacall curtailed her film appearances. She was publicly disdainful of modern Hollywood, though she appeared with Nicole Kidman in two films, Dogville and Birth And in , she lent her voice to the animated series Family Guy in an episode entitled "Mom's the Word.
Still active and in relatively good health well into her 80s, Bacall was one of the last links left to the Golden Age of Hollywood, and time never dulled either her tongue or her wits. She told Vanity Fair , "I don't think anybody that has a brain can really be happy.
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