Lauren Bacall, sultry-voiced actress, dead at 89

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014


HOUSTON --
Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages, died Tuesday at age 89.
 
Bacall, whose long career brought two Tonys and a special Oscar, died in New York. The managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, Robbert J.F. de Klerk, said that Bacall died at home, but declined to give further details. Bacall's son Stephen Bogart confirmed his mother's death to de Klerk.
 
She 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.
 
She was less than half Bogart's age, yet as wise and as jaded as him. Her sly glance, with chin down and eyes raised, added to her fame; she was nicknamed "The Look." Bogart and Bacall married amid headlines in 1945, and they co-starred in three more films, "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). Their marriage lasted until his death from cancer in 1957.
 
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She was ever protective of the Bogart legacy, lashing out at those who tried to profit from his image. In 1997, she appeared at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for ceremonies launching the U.S. Postal Service's Humphrey Bogart stamp.
 
When the American Film Institute compiled its list of screen legends in 1999, Bacall ranked No. 20 on the roster of 25 actresses. Bogart topped the list of actors.

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Jamie Bogart remembers 'grand ma ma' Lauren Bacall


By Lauren Daley
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
August 14, 2014 12:00 AM


http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140814/NEWS/408140375


   I read Lauren Bacall's book: By Myself (title), the book was candid and good reading. 

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Lauren Bacall
Original name: Betty Joan Persk

Family links:
 Parents:
  William Perske (1889 - 1982)
  Natalie Weinstein-Bacal Goldberg (1901 - 1972)
 
 Spouses:
  Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957)
  Jason Nelson Robards (1922 - 2000)
 

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134259715

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http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Perske-2


Details of Lauren Bacall's father.  I wish we knew his side of the story.