Lauren Bacall
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New York, New York, USA
Following study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and subsequent stage and modeling experience, legendary actress Lauren Bacall gained nationwide attention by posing for a 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine. This photo prompted film director Howard Hawks to put her under personal contract, wanting to "create" a movie star from fresh, raw material.For her screen debut, Hawks cast Bacall opposite Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944). The young actress was so nervous that she walked around with her chin pressed against her collarbone to keep from shaking. As a result, she had to glance upward every time she spoke, an affectation which came across as sexy and alluring, earning Bacall the nickname "The Look." She also spoke in a deep, throaty manner, effectively obscuring the fact that she was only 19-years-old. Thanks to the diligence of Hawks and his crew -- and the actress' unique delivery of such lines as "If you want anything, just whistle..." -- Bacall found herself lauded as the most sensational newcomer of 1944. She also found herself in love with Humphrey Bogart, whom she subsequently married. Bogie and Bacall co-starred in three more films, which increased the actress' popularity, but also led critics to suggest that she was incapable of carrying a picture on her own. Bacall's disappointing solo turn in Confidential Agent (1945) seemed to confirm this, but the actress was a quick study and good listener, and before long she was turning in first-rate performances in such films as Young Man With a Horn (1950) and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Bogart's death in 1957 after a long and painful bout with cancer left Bacall personally devastated, though, in the tradition of her show-must-go-on husband, she continued to perform to the best of her ability in films such as Designing Woman (1957) and The Gift of Love (1958). In the late '60s, after Bacall's second marriage to another hard-case actor, Jason Robards Jr., she received only a handful of negligible film roles and all but dropped out of moviemaking. In 1970, Bacall made a triumphant comeback in the stage production Applause, a musical adaptation of All About Eve, in which she played grand dame Margo Channing, a role originally played by Bette Davis in the film version. Her sultry-vixen persona long in the past, Bacall spent the '70s playing variations on her worldly, resourceful Applause role, sometimes merely being decorative (Murder on the Orient Express, 1974), but most often delivering class-A performances (The Shootist, 1976). After playing the quasi-autobiographical part of a legendary, outspoken Broadway actress in 1981's The Fan, she spent the next ten years portraying Lauren Bacall -- and no one did it better. In 1993, Bacall proved once more that she was a superb actress and not merely a "professional personality" in the made-for-cable film The Portrait, in which she and her Designing Woman co-star Gregory Peck played a still-amorous elderly couple. During the filming of The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Bacall traveled to France to accept a special César Award for her lifetime achievement in film. For her role in Mirror, which cast her as Barbra Streisand's mother, Bacall earned a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination. She continued to work on a number of projects into the next decade, including Diamonds, in which she appeared alongside Kirk Douglas, with whom she last co-starred in the 1950 romantic drama Young Man with a Horn.In the new century she worked twice with internationally respected filmmaker Lars von Trier, appearing in Dogville and Manderlay. She was in the Nicole Kidman film Birth, and appeared in the documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. Bacall won an Honorary Oscar in 2010. She died in 2014 at age 89.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Forger |
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— | 2012 |
97% | Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff |
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$20.5k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | All at Sea |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Great Performances |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King |
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— | 2008 |
53% | The Walker |
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$43.7k | 2007 |
No Score Yet | These Foolish Things |
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— | 2007 |
50% | Manderlay |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Firedog |
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— | 2005 |
38% | Birth |
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$5.1M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Broadway's Lost Treasures II |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Gone Dark |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | The Limit (Gone Dark) |
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— | 2003 |
70% | Dogville |
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$1.5M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Fabulous '50s |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Presence of Mind |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Best of Film Noir |
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— | 2000 |
26% | Diamonds |
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— | 1999 |
71% | Get Bruce |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Madeline: Lost in Paris |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Le Jour et la nuit |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Howard Hawks: American Artist |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Judy Garland's Hollywood |
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— | 1997 |
47% | My Fellow Americans |
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— | 1996 |
55% | The Mirror Has Two Faces |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
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— | 1995 |
24% | Ready to Wear (Prêt-à -Porter) |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | A Foreign Field |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Little Piece of Sunshine |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | The Portrait |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music |
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— | 1993 |
0% | All I Want for Christmas |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Kisses |
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— | 1991 |
90% | Misery |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Innocent Victim |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Dinner at Eight |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | John Huston - The Man, the Movies, the Maverick |
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— | 1989 |
50% | Mr. North |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Appointment with Death |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Bacall on Bogart |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Smoke That Cigarette |
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— | 1987 |
38% | The Fan |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Health |
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— | 1980 |
86% | The Shootist |
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— | 1976 |
90% | Murder on the Orient Express |
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— | 1974 |
100% | Harper (The Moving Target) |
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— | 1966 |
50% | Sex and the Single Girl |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | North West Frontier |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Northwest Frontier |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | The Gift of Love |
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— | 1958 |
82% | Written on the Wind |
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— | 1957 |
82% | Designing Woman |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Blood Alley |
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— | 1955 |
71% | The Cobweb |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Woman's World |
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— | 1954 |
84% | How to Marry a Millionaire |
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— | 1953 |
80% | Young Man With a Horn |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Bright Leaf |
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— | 1950 |
97% | Key Largo |
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— | 1948 |
93% | Dark Passage |
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— | 1947 |
97% | The Big Sleep |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Confidential Agent |
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— | 1945 |
97% | To Have and Have Not |
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— | 1944 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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92% |
The Sopranos
1999-2007
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No Score Yet |
Chicago Hope
1994-2000
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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Quotes from Lauren Bacall's Characters
Marie Browning (Slim): | Anybody got a match? |
Cricket: | Hey Slim, you still happy? |
Marie Browning (Slim): | What do you think? |
Harry Morgan: | Johnson's my client. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | He doesn't speak so well of you. |
Harry Morgan: | He's still my client. You ought to pick on someone to steal from who doesn't owe me money. |
Sylvia Broderick: | Hi Kid! |
Sylvia Broderick: | Needed? Needed? Buster you need me! You couldn't live without me because I'll take every penny you own when I go! And I will go, if you ever come up with another cheap idea like that. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. |
Liz Henson: | Honestly, Tom, you've done it again. Made us come here to listen to a lot of nonsense. Who do you think you are? Some kind of philosopher? |
Tom Edison: | Observant, that's what I am. |
Ma Ginger: | Lazy, I would say. |
Vivian Sternwood Rutledge: | So, you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you? |
Vivian Sternwood Rutledge: | I don't like your manners. |
Philip Marlowe: | And I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind your ritzing me drinking you lunch out of the bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | You know you don't have to act with me Harry. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you , Harry? You just have to put your lips together and . . . blow. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | You know you don't have to act with me Harry. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you , Harry? You just have to put your lips together and... blow. |
Harry Morgan: | [Slim kisses Steve] What did you do that for? |
Harry Morgan: | [slim kisses Steve] What did you do that for? |
Marie Browning (Slim): | I've been wondering if I'd like it. |
Harry Morgan: | What's the decision? |
Marie Browning (Slim): | I don't know yet. [They kiss again] It's even better when you help. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | I don't know yet. [they kiss again] It's even better when you help. |
Rose Morgan: | Mom, how did it feel? |
Hannah Morgan: | What? |
Rose Morgan: | Being beautiful? Having people look at you with such... admiration? |
Rose Morgan: | Being beautiful? Having people look at you with such admiration? |
Hannah Morgan: | It was wonderful. |
Vivian Sternwood Rutledge: | I don't like your manners. |
Marie Browning (Slim): | You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow! |