Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall
Bacall in March 1945
Born Betty Joan Perske
(1924-09-16)September 16, 1924
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died August 12, 2014(2014-08-12) (aged 89)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Actress
  • model
Years active 1942–2014
Height 5 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1.74 m)[1]
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s)
Children 3, including Sam Robards
Signature

Lauren Bacall (/bəˈkɔːl/, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures".[2]

Bacall began her career as a model,[3] before making her film debut as a leading lady in To Have and Have Not (1944). She continued in the film noir genre with appearances with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), and starred in the romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, as well as Designing Woman (1957), with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film, The Shootist (1976), by Wayne's personal request. Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

Early life

Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx, New York,[4][5] the only child of Natalie (née Weinstein; 1901–1977), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales.[6] Both her parents were Jewish. According to Bacall, her mother emigrated from Iași, the Kingdom of Romania, through Ellis Island, and her father was born in New Jersey to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a significant center of Jewish life in present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire.[7]

Soon after her birth, Bacall's family moved to Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway.[7][8] She was educated with the financial support of her wealthy uncles at a private boarding school founded by philanthropist Eugene Heitler Lehman, named The Highland Manor Boarding School for Girls,[9] in Tarrytown, New York, and at Julia Richman High School in Manhattan.[10]

Her parents divorced when she was five; she later took the Romanian form of her mother's last name, Bacall.[11] She no longer saw her father and formed a very close bond with her mother, who remarried Lee Goldberg and came to live in California after Bacall became a movie star.[12][13]

Through her father, she was a relative of Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski), the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and ninth President of Israel.[14][15][16] Peres has stated, "In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family... but I'm not exactly sure what our relation is... It was she who later said that she was my cousin; I didn't say that".[14]

Early career and modeling

Bacall on the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar

In 1941, Bacall took lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she was classmates with Kirk Douglas,[17] while working as a theatre usher at the St. James Theatre and fashion model.[4]

She made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942, at age 17, as a walk-on in Johnny 2 X 4. By then, she lived with her mother at 75 Bank Street, and in 1942, she was crowned Miss Greenwich Village.[18]

As a teenage fashion model, she appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, as well as in magazines such as Vogue.[13] She was noted for her "cat-like grace, tawny blonde hair, and blue-green eyes".[19]

Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not

Though Diana Vreeland is often credited with discovering Bacall for Harper's Bazaar, it was in fact Nicolas de Gunzburg, who introduced the 18-year-old to Vreeland. He had first met Bacall at Tony's, a club in the East 50s. De Gunzburg suggested that Bacall stop by his Bazaar office the next day. He then turned over his find to Vreeland, who arranged for Louise Dahl-Wolfe to shoot Bacall in Kodachrome for the March 1943 cover.[20]

The Harper's Bazaar cover caught the attention of Hollywood producer and director Howard Hawks' wife Slim,[21] who urged Hawks to have Bacall take a screen test for To Have and Have Not. Hawks asked his secretary to find out more about her, but the secretary misunderstood and sent Bacall a ticket to come to Hollywood for the audition.[22]

Hollywood

After meeting Bacall in Hollywood, Hawks immediately signed her to a seven-year contract, with a weekly salary of $100, and personally began to manage her career. He changed her first name to Lauren, and she chose "Bacall" (a variant of her mother's maiden name) as her screen surname. Slim Hawks also took Bacall under her wing,[23] dressing Bacall stylishly and guiding her in matters of elegance, manners, and taste. At Hawks' suggestion, Bacall was also trained to make her voice lower and deeper, instead of her normal high-pitched, nasal voice. Hawks had her, under the tutelage of a voice coach, lower the pitch of her voice.[24] As part of her training, she was required to shout verses of Shakespeare for hours every day.[23][25] Her height, at 5 feet 8½ inches (1.74 m),[1] unusual among young actresses in the 1940s and 1950s, also helped her stand out. Her voice was characterized as a "smoky, sexual growl" by most critics,[1] and a "throaty purr".[24]

Bacall and Bogart in Dark Passage

During her screen tests for To Have and Have Not (1944), Bacall was so nervous that, to minimize her quivering, she pressed her chin against her chest, faced the camera, and tilted her eyes upward.[26] This effect, which came to be known as "The Look", became another Bacall trademark, along with her sultry voice.[27]

Bacall's character in the film used Slim Hawks' nickname "Slim", and Bogart used Howard Hawks' nickname "Steve". The on-set chemistry between the two was immediate according to Bacall.[7] She and Bogart (who was married at the time to Mayo Methot) began a romantic relationship several weeks into shooting.[21]

Bacall's role in the script was originally much smaller, but during filming, her part was revised multiple times to extend it into the lead part that it became in the released film.[28] Once released, To Have and Have Not catapulted Bacall into instant stardom, and her performance became the cornerstone of her star image, the impact of which extended into popular culture at large, even influencing fashion,[29] as well as film-makers and other actors.[28]

Bacall lounges on top of the piano while Vice President Harry S. Truman plays for servicemen at the National Press Club Canteen in Washington, D.C. (February 10, 1945)

Warner Bros. launched an extensive marketing campaign to promote the picture and to establish Bacall as a movie star. As part of the public relations push, Bacall made a visit to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1945. It was there that Bacall's press agent, chief of publicity at Warner Bros. Charlie Enfield, asked the 20-year-old Bacall to sit on the piano while U.S. Vice President Harry S. Truman played.[30][31]

After To Have and Have Not, Bacall was seen opposite Charles Boyer in Confidential Agent (1945), which was poorly received by critics. By her own estimation, it could have caused considerable damage to her career, had her performance as the mysterious, acid-tongued Vivian Rutledge in Hawks's film noir The Big Sleep (1946), co-starring Bogart, not provided a quick career resurgence.[32]

The Big Sleep laid the foundation for her status as an icon of film noir. She would be strongly associated with the genre for the rest of her career,[33][34][35] and would often be cast as variations of the independent and sultry femme fatale character of Vivian she played in the movie. As described by film scholar Joe McElhaney, "Vivian displays an almost total command of movement and gesture. She never crawls."[36]

Bacall was cast with Bogart in two more films. In Dark Passage (1947), another film noir, she played an enigmatic San Francisco artist. "Miss Bacall – generates quite a lot of pressure as a sharp-eyed, knows-what-she-wants girl", wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times of her performance.[37] And, in 1948, she was in John Huston's melodramatic suspense film Key Largo with Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. In the film, according to film critic Jessica Kiang, "Bacall brings an edge of ambivalence and independence to the role that makes her character much more interesting than was written".[38]

1950s

Kirk Douglas and Bacall in Young Man with a Horn

Bacall turned down scripts she did not find interesting, and thereby earned a reputation for being difficult. Despite this, she further solidified her star status in the 1950s by appearing as the leading lady in a string of films that won favorable reviews.

Bacall was cast opposite Gary Cooper in Bright Leaf (1950). In the same year, she played a two-faced femme fatale in Young Man with a Horn (1950), a jazz musical co-starring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, and Hoagy Carmichael.

During 1951–1952, Bacall co-starred with Bogart in the syndicated action-adventure radio series Bold Venture.[39]

In 1953, she starred in the CinemaScope comedy How to Marry a Millionaire, a runaway hit among critics and at the box office.[40] Directed by Jean Negulesco and co-starring Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, Bacall got positive notices for her turn as the witty gold-digger, Schatze Page.[41] "First honors in spreading mirth go to Miss Bacall", wrote Alton Cook in the New York World-Telegram & Sun. "The most intelligent and predatory of the trio, she takes complete control of every scene with her acid delivery of viciously witty lines."[42]

After the success of How to Marry a Millionaire, she was offered, but declined, with Bogart's support, the coveted invitation from Grauman's Chinese Theatre to press her hand- and footprints in the theatre's cemented forecourt. She felt at the time that "anyone with a picture opening could be represented there, standards had been so lowered" and didn't feel she had yet achieved the status of a major star, and was thereby unworthy of the honor:[43] "I want to feel I've earned my place with the best my business has produced."[7]:236

Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire

At the time, Bacall was still under contract to 20th Century Fox.[42] Following How to Marry a Millionaire, she appeared in yet another CinemaScope comedy directed by Jean Negulesco, Woman's World (1954), which failed to match its predecessor's success at the box office.[44][45]

In 1955 a television version of Bogart's breakthrough film, The Petrified Forest, was performed as a live installment of Producers' Showcase, a weekly dramatic anthology, featuring Bogart as Duke Mantee, Henry Fonda as Alan, and Bacall as Gabrielle, the part originally played in the 1936 movie by Bette Davis. Bogart had originally played the part on Broadway with the subsequent movie's star Leslie Howard, who had secured a film career for Bogart by insisting that Warner Bros. cast him in the movie instead of Edward G. Robinson; Bogart and Bacall named their daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" in gratitude.

In the late 1990s, Bacall donated the only known kinescope of the 1955 performance to The Museum Of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media), where it remains archived for viewing in New York City and Los Angeles.[46]

In 1955, Bacall starred in two feature films, The Cobweb and Blood Alley. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, The Cobweb takes place at a mental institution in which Bacall's character works as a therapist. It was her second collaboration with Charles Boyer and also starred Richard Widmark and Lillian Gish. "In the only two really sympathetic roles, Mr. Widmark is excellent and Miss Bacall shrewdly underplays", wrote The New York Times.[47]

Bacall in Written on the Wind

Many film scholars consider Written on the Wind, directed by Douglas Sirk in 1956, to be a landmark work in the melodrama genre.[48] Appearing with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack, Bacall played a career woman whose life is unexpectedly turned around by a family of oil magnates. Bacall wrote in her autobiography that she did not think much of the role, but reviews were favorable. Wrote Variety, "Bacall registers strongly as a sensible girl swept into the madness of the oil family".[49]

While struggling at home with Bogart's battle with esophageal cancer, Bacall starred with Gregory Peck in Designing Woman to solid reviews.[50] The musical comedy was her second feature with director Vincente Minnelli and was released in New York on May 16, 1957, four months after Bogart's death on January 14.[7]

Bacall appeared in two more films in the 1950s: the Jean Negulesco-directed melodrama The Gift of Love (1958), which co-starred Robert Stack; and the adventure film North West Frontier (1959), which was a box office hit.[51]

1960s and 1970s

Bacall was seen in only a handful of films in the 1960s. She starred on Broadway in Goodbye, Charlie in 1959, and went on to have a successful on-stage career in Cactus Flower (1965), Applause (1970), and Woman of the Year (1981). She won Tony Awards for her performances in the latter two.[52]

Applause was a musical version of the film All About Eve, in which Bette Davis had starred as stage diva Margo Channing. According to Bacall's autobiography, she and a girlfriend won an opportunity in 1940 to meet her idol Bette Davis at Davis' hotel.[7] Years later, Davis visited Bacall backstage to congratulate her on her performance in Applause. Davis told Bacall, "You're the only one who could have played the part."[53]

The few films Bacall made during this period were all-star vehicles such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964) with Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood; Harper (1966) with Paul Newman, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner, and Janet Leigh; and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam, and Sean Connery.

In 1964 she appeared in two episodes of Craig Stevens's Mr. Broadway: first in "Take a Walk Through a Cemetery", with then husband, Jason Robards, Jr., and later as Barbara Lake in the episode "Something to Sing About", co-starring future co-star Balsam.[54]

For her work in the Chicago theatre, Bacall won the Sarah Siddons Award in 1972, and again in 1984.

In 1976, she co-starred with John Wayne in The Shootist. The two became friends, despite significant political differences between them.[7] They had also worked together in Blood Alley (1955).[55]

Later career

In 1981, Bacall appeared in star vehicle The Fan. While the film received mixed reviews, her performance got a favorable reception, Vincent Canby of The New York Times writing about her character of Sally Ross as "the most fully drawn, the most engaging, and the sexiest character that Miss Bacall has played on the screen since her early great days with Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks 35 years ago"[56] and Variety observing, "Lauren Bacall makes the film [from a novel by Bob Randall] work with a solid performance as a stage star pursued by a psychotic fan whose adoration turns to hatred. To be sure, the part doesn't test the broadest range of Bacall's abilities, but she and director Edward Bianchi achieve the essential element: They make the audience care what happens to her."[57]

Bacall also was featured in Robert Altman's Health (1980) and Michael Winner's Appointment with Death (1988). In 1990, she had a small role in Misery, which starred Kathy Bates and James Caan.

In 1997, Bacall was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), her first nomination after a career span of more than fifty years.[58] Bacall had already won a Golden Globe and was widely expected to win the Oscar, but lost in an upset to Juliette Binoche for The English Patient.[59]

Bacall received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997,[60] and in 1999, she was voted one of the 25 most significant female movie stars in history by the American Film Institute. Her movie career saw something of a renaissance, and she attracted respectful notices for her performances in high-profile projects such as Dogville (2003) and Birth (2004), both with Nicole Kidman, and in Howl's Moving Castle (2004), as the Witch of the Waste. She was a leading actor in Paul Schrader's The Walker (2007).[61]

Bacall at a press conference for The Walker in February 2007

In 1999, Bacall starred on Broadway in a revival of Noël Coward's Waiting in the Wings.[62]

Her commercial ventures in the 2000s included being a spokesperson for the Tuesday Morning discount chain (commercials showed her in a limousine waiting for the store to open at the beginning of one of their sales events), and producing a jewelry line with the Weinman Brothers company. She had been a celebrity spokesperson for High Point coffee and Fancy Feast cat food. In March 2006, Bacall was seen at the 78th Annual Academy Awards introducing a film montage dedicated to film noir. She made a cameo appearance as herself on The Sopranos, in the April 2006 episode, "Luxury Lounge", during which she was mugged by Chris Moltisanti (played by Michael Imperioli).[63]

In September 2006, Bacall was awarded the first Katharine Hepburn Medal, which recognizes "women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress", by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center.[64] She gave an address at the memorial service of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. at the Reform Club in London in June 2007.[65] She finished her role in The Forger in 2009.[66]

Bacall was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Academy Award. The award was presented at the inaugural Governors Awards on November 14, 2009.[67]

In July 2013, Bacall expressed interest in taking the starring role in the film Trouble Is My Business.[68] In November, she joined the English dub voice cast for StudioCanal's animated film Ernest & Celestine.[69] Her final role was in 2014: a guest vocal appearance in the twelfth season Family Guy episode "Mom's the Word".[70]

Personal life

Relationships and family

Best man Louis Bromfield (center) at the wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at Malabar Farm (May 21, 1945)

On May 21, 1945, Bacall married Humphrey Bogart. Their wedding and honeymoon took place at Malabar Farm, Lucas, Ohio, the country home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield, a close friend of Bogart.[71] The wedding was held in the Big House.[72]

Their marriage ended with Bogart's death in 1957. Pressed by interviewer Michael Parkinson to talk about her marriage to Bogart, and asked about her notable reluctance to do so, she replied that "being a widow is not a profession".[73] During the filming of The African Queen (1951), Bacall and Bogart became friends with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. She began to mix in non-acting circles, becoming friends with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and the journalist Alistair Cooke. In 1952, she gave campaign speeches for Democratic Presidential contender Adlai Stevenson. Along with other Hollywood figures, Bacall was a staunch opponent of McCarthyism.[74][75]

Bacall had a relationship with Frank Sinatra. During an interview with Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne, Bacall stated that she had ended the romance, but, in her autobiography, she wrote that Sinatra ended the relationship abruptly after becoming upset that the story of his marriage proposal to Bacall had reached the press. When Bacall was out with her friend Irving Paul Lazar, they encountered the gossip columnist Louella Parsons, to whom Lazar revealed the details of the proposal.[76]

Bacall met Jason Robards. Their marriage was originally scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria, on June 16, 1961;[77] however, the plans were shelved after Austrian authorities refused to grant the pair a marriage license.[78] They were refused a marriage also in Las Vegas, Nevada.[79] On July 4, 1961, the couple drove all the way to Ensenada, Mexico, where they wed.[79][80] The couple divorced in 1969. According to Bacall's autobiography, she divorced Robards mainly because of his alcoholism.[81][82]

Bacall in 1989

Bacall had two children with Bogart and one with Robards. Son Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born January 6, 1949) is a news producer, documentary film maker, and author named after Bogart's character in To Have and Have Not.[71] Their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart (born August 23, 1952) is named for actor Leslie Howard. A nurse and yoga instructor, she is married to Erich Schiffmann.[71] In his 1995 memoir, Stephen Bogart wrote, "My mother was a lapsed Jew, and my father was a lapsed Episcopalian", and that he and his sister were raised Episcopalian "because my mother felt that would make life easier for Leslie and me during those post-World War II years".[71] Sam Robards (born December 16, 1961), Bacall's son with Robards, is an actor.

Bacall wrote two autobiographies, Lauren Bacall by Myself (1978) and Now (1994).[83][84] In 2006, the first volume of Lauren Bacall by Myself was reprinted as By Myself and Then Some with an extra chapter.[85]

Political views

Bacall was a staunch liberal Democrat, and proclaimed her political views on numerous occasions.[71] Bacall and Bogart were among about 80 Hollywood personalities to send a telegram protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations of Americans suspected of Communism. The telegram said that investigating individuals' political beliefs violated the basic principles of American democracy.[71] In October 1947, Bacall and Bogart traveled to Washington, D.C., along with a number of other Hollywood stars in a group that called itself the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA), which also included Danny Kaye, John Garfield, Gene Kelly, John Huston, Ira Gershwin and Jane Wyatt.[71]

She appeared alongside Humphrey Bogart in a photograph printed at the end of an article he wrote, titled "I'm No Communist", in the May 1948 edition of Photoplay magazine,[86] written to counteract negative publicity resulting from his appearance before the House Committee. Bogart and Bacall distanced themselves from the Hollywood Ten, and said: "We're about as much in favor of Communism as J. Edgar Hoover."[87][88]

Bacall campaigned for Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election, accompanying him on motorcades along with Bogart, and flying east to help in the final laps of Stevenson's campaign in New York and Chicago.[71] She also campaigned for Robert Kennedy in his 1964 run for the U.S. Senate.[89]

In a 2005 interview with Larry King, Bacall described herself as "anti-Republican... A liberal. The L-word". She added that "being a liberal is the best thing on Earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind."[90]

Death

One month before her 90th birthday, Bacall died on August 12, 2014, at her longtime apartment in The Dakota, the Upper West Side building near Central Park in Manhattan.[71] According to her grandson Jamie Bogart, Bacall died after suffering a massive stroke.[3] She was confirmed dead at New York–Presbyterian Hospital.[91][92] She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Bacall had an estimated $26.6 million estate. In her will, the bulk of her estate was divided among her three children: Leslie Bogart, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, and Sam Robards. Bacall also left $10,000 to her youngest son, Sam Robards, to take care of her dog, Sophie. She also gave money to two of her employees, Ilsa Hernandez and Maria Santos; Hernandez received $15,000 while Santos received $20,000. Additionally, Bacall left $250,000 each to her youngest grandsons, the sons of Sam Robards, for college.[93] She owned artworks by a number of artists, including John James Audubon, Max Ernst, David Hockney, Henry Moore, and Jim Dine.[94]

In a 1996 interview, Bacall, reflecting on her life, told the interviewer that she had been lucky: "I had one great marriage, I have three great children and four grandchildren. I am still alive. I still can function. I still can work", adding, "You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing."[71][95]

Filmography

Radio appearances

YearProgramEpisode/source
1946Lux Radio TheatreTo Have and Have Not[96]

|- | 1951-52|| Bold Venture || entire series run |}

Books

  • Lauren Bacall by Myself (1978)
  • Now (1994)
  • By Myself and Then Some (2005)

Awards and nominations

Film

Academy Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
2010 N/A Academy Honorary Award Won
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress Nominated

American Comedy Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1997 The Mirror Has Two Faces Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated

BAFTA

Year Nominated work Category Result
1997 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress Nominated
1977 The Shootist Best Leading Actress Nominated

César du cinéma

Year Nominated work Category Result
1996[97] N/A Honorary César Won

Critics' Choice Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1997 N/A Lifetime Achievement Award Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Won
1993 N/A Cecil B. DeMille Award Won

Laurel Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1958 Designing Woman Top Female Comedy Performace 3rd
N/A Top Female Star 11th

National Board of Review

Year Nominated work Category Result
1994 Prêt-à-Porter Best Acting by an Ensamble Won
1991 N/A Career Achievement Award Won

Online Film & Television Association Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
2018 N/A OFTA Film Hall of Fame Won
1997 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress Nominated

San Diego Film Critics Society

Year Nominated work Category Result
1996[98] The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress Won

Satellite Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress - Musical or Comedy Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award

Year Nominated work Category Result
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role Won

20/20 Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
2017 The Mirror Has Two Faces Best Supporting Actress Nominated

Film Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
1997[99] N/A Berlinale Camera Won

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
1998 N/A Lifetime Achievement Award Won

Norwegian International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
2007[100] N/A Lifetime Achievement Award Won

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
1997 N/A Lifetime Achievement Award Won

San Sebastián International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
1992[101] N/A Donostia Award Won

Stockholm International Film Festival

Year Nominated work Category Result
2000[102] N/A Lifetime Achievement Award Won

Television

Emmy Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1988 Bacall on Bogart Outstanding Informational Special Nominated
1980 The Rockford Files Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
1973 Applause Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated

Online Film & Television Association Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1999 Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke Best Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Nominated

Theatre

Tony Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1981 Woman of the Year Best Actress in a Musical Won
1970 Applause Best Actress in a Musical Won

Drama Desk Awards

Year Nominated work Category Result
1970 Applause Oustanding Actress in a Musical Won

Hasty Pudding Theatricals

Year Nominated work Category Result
1967[103] N/A Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won

Sarah Siddons Award

Year Nominated work Category Result
1984 N/A Actress of the Year Won
1972[104] N/A Actress of the Year Won

Other honors

Year Honor Organization Notes
2008 Bette Davis Medal of Honor Bette Davis Foundation
2005 Frontier Award Austin Film Society Accepted on behalf of the cast and crew of Written on the Wind
2000 Living Legend Award Women's Image Network
1999[105] AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars American Film Institute 20th place
1998[106] Honorary Degree in Human Letters Columbia University
1998[107] American Theater Hall of Fame American Theatre Critics Association
1997[108] Kennedy Center Honors Kennedy Center
1997[109] Golden Palm Star Palm Springs Walk of Stars
1995 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Ministère de la Culture
1994 Muse Award New York Women in Film & Television
1990[110] George Eastman Award George Eastman Museum
1984 Premio Rodolfo Valentino --
1980[111][lower-alpha 1] National Book Award for Autobiography National Book Foundation for Lauren Bacall by Myself
1979 Prix littéraire Lucien Barrière Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville for Lauren Bacall by Myself
1960[112] Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Hollywood Chamber of Commerce located at 1724 Vine Street

Film

Animation

Music

  • She is referenced in the song "Rainbow High" from the musical Evita. ("So Lauren Bacall me") (1978)
  • Bacall and Bogart are referenced in Bertie Higgins' song "Key Largo" (1981).[116]
  • Bacall is referenced in The Clash's song "Car Jamming" (1982).[116]
  • Bacall and Bogart are referenced in Suzanne Vega's song "Freeze Tag" (1985).[116]
  • She is referenced in "Vogue" the 1990 Madonna song. Bacall was the last to die of the mentioned celebrities.[116]
  • She is the subject of the song, "Just Like Lauren Bacall" (2008), written by Kevin Roth.[116]
  • She is referenced in the song, "You, Jane" (2012) by The Wedding Present.
  • Bacall and Bogart are referenced as "Bacall and Bogie" in Bon Jovi's song "Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars", at the end of the song, on their 2000 album Crush.

Books

  • Bacall and her Manhattan apartment are featured in The Dakota Scrapbook (2014), a photo-journalism volume on the history of the Dakota apartment building in New York City, and its famous residents over the years.[117]
  • In the novel Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, a character named Lauren is often recognized by the protagonist, Leonard, as having a striking resemblance to Lauren Bacall.[118]

Marshall Islands namesake

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This was the 1980 award for hardcover Autobiography. From 1980 to 1983, in National Book Award history, there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories, and multiple nonfiction subcategories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1980 Autobiography.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sharkey, Betsy. "Lauren Bacall's voice resonated with women". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ "82nd Academy Awards Memorable Moments". Oscars. 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Ford, Dana (August 12, 2014). "Famed actress Lauren Bacall dies at 89". CNN. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Lauren Bacall Fast Facts". CNN Library. August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ Tyrnauer, Matt (March 10, 2011). "To Have and Have Not". Vanity Fair. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  6. ↑ Lauren Bacall profile, Film Reference.com; retrieved July 9, 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bacall, Lauren. By Myself and Then Some, HarperCollins, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-06-075535-0
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