Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and was one of
Bacall in 1945
Bacall by László Willinger, 1946
Howard Hawks and Bacall c. 1943
Bacall with Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart
Lauren Bacall
…for the Walter Thornton Model Agency before making her film debut at the age of nineteen in To Have and Have Not (1944) as the leading lady opposite Humphrey Bogart, whom she later married. She continued in the film noir genre with appearances alongside Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key…
Plaque commemorating Bogart's birthplace, 245 W. 103rd St., New York City
Maud Humphrey in the 1897 book American Women
Enlisting at 18 in the U.S. Navy in 1918, Bogart was recorded as a model sailor.