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Legendary actress Lauren Bacall has died in New York of a ''massive stroke'' at her home in New York on Tuesday, she was 89 years old....
Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall made her feature debut with Howard Hawks' adventure yarn “To Have and Have Not” ().
Lauren Bacall
| Actress Date of Birth: 16.09.1924 Country: USA |
Content:
- Lauren Bacall's Rise to Stardom
- Debut and Breakthrough
- Humphrey Bogart and the "Bogart-Bacall Syndrome"
- Post-Bogart Career
- Later Film Success and Legacy
- "The Rat Pack" and the "Den Mother"
- The End of an Era
Lauren Bacall's Rise to Stardom
Born Betty Joan Persky to Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, Lauren Bacall's early life was shaped by her mother and grandmother after her father abandoned the family.
She took the surname Bacall from her grandmother at age 8 and later changed her first name to Lauren. Aspiring to become a dancer, she pursued acting after graduating from high school and enrolled at the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Debut and Breakthrough
Bacall's striking features landed her a modeling career, leading to her Harper's Bazaar cover.
Her breakthrough came when renowned director Howard Hawks cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film adaptation of Hemingway's "To Ha