Lauren Bacall

[Leni]

It's just been announced that she has died today. She was 89.

 

[Melensdad]

Bummer, I thought she was absolutely stunning!

 

[Jim_S]

Bummer, I thought she was absolutely stunning!

So did I.

Jim


Legendary actress Lauren Bacall dies at age 89

WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Lauren Bacall, the film and stage actress and model who was known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks, died Tuesday at the age of 89.

Lauren Bacall, 20-year-old motion picture actress, smiles after arriving in Chicago February 1, 1945 en route to New York. Actor Humphrey Bogart said the day before, in New York,he had "signified my intentios" toward Miss Bacall. In Chicago, the actess said: "Until I talk to him I'm at a loss for worlds." (AP Photo/Harry L. Hall)
Word of her death came from multiple media reports. Both Variety magazine and the celebrity news website TMZ said Bacall had passed away at her home from a stroke.

Bacall first emerged as a leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), as well as comedic roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck.

Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.

In 1999, Bacall was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the 100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."

Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacall, and William Perske, who worked in sales; both of her parents were Jewish. Her mother emigrated from Romania through Ellis Island, and her father was born in New Jersey, to Polish parents.

Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/08/actress-lauren-bacall-dies-at-age-89-106030.html#ixzz3AEAWN8Iq

 

[Dargo]

She was stunning! Obviously she work her charm on Bogart! I keep of this tune inspired from their Key Largo movie. Here's lookin' at you kid...

Key Largo

 

[EastTexFrank]

A beautiful lady and a great actress. RIP.

 

[Danang Sailor]

Beautiful and elegant, no question. And sexy as all get out! The world will suffer for her passing ... luckily we on FF won't
notice the pain as much, as we have Leni to fill the beautiful, elegant, and sexy position.

 

[Leni]

Why thank you Danang. By the way that picture was taken when I was dancing at the Glen Campbell estate for a charity function. No way that I can fill Bacall's shoes though.