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Bacall, Lauren

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Bacall, Lauren (1924– )

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US actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, in a picture from the 1940s. Bogart and Bacall, who were married from 1945 until Bogart's death in 1957, co-starred in a number of films, including To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948).

US actor. She became an overnight star when cast by Howard Hawks opposite Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944). She and Bogart went on to star together in The Big Sleep (1946), The Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). They married in 1945.

Bacall's later films include The Cobweb (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), and Harper (1966). She returned to Hollywood after an eight-year absence with Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and two years later appeared in The Shootist (1976) and Misery (1990). She also starred in the Broadway plays Goodbye Charlie (1959), Cactus Flower (1965), Applause (1970, Tony Award), and Woman of the Year (1981, Tony Award). In 1996 she featured in Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces, for which she won the 1997 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She published two autobiographies: By Myself (1978) and Now (1994).



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