Lauren Bacall: 1924-2014
Lauren Bacall didn't have many nice things to say about Hollywood in 1999 after she finished filming a miniseries there. 'What I don't like about it is the general mentality,'' she said of the showbiz culture. Bacall starred in the CBS miniseries ''Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke,'
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American conductor Leonard Bernstein poses American movie star Lauren Bacall during the gala evening at the Rond Point Theater in Paris, June 1986. The gala evening was dedicated to Leonard Bernstein.
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Lauren Bacall, a bewitching actress whose husky voice and smoldering on-screen chemistry with her husband Humphrey Bogart made her a defining movie star of the 1940s and who decades later won Tony Awards in the Broadway musicals "Applause" and "Woman of the Year," has died at 89.
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Lauren Bacall, a bewitching actress whose husky voice and smoldering on-screen chemistry with her husband Humphrey Bogart made her a defining movie star of the 1940s and who decades later won Tony Awards in the Broadway musicals "Applause" and "Woman of the Year," has died at 89.
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Actress Lauren Bacall, right, speaks with Dr. Jason Slakter, a retinal specialist, while doing a satellite broadcast with television stations around the United States to raise awareness about macular degeneration, an eye disease where a person loses their central vision on March 26, 2002 in New York.
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Lauren Bacall speaks during a taped interview with talk show host Larry King on the CNN program "Larry King Live", at the CNN studios in Los Angeles March 16, 2005.
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Lauren Bacall looks at a birthday cake backstage at New York's Palace Theater Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1981 after "Women of the Year" cast members and friends surprised the show's star with a cake to mark her 57th birthday. Her hair is still wet from one of the closing scenes when she is splashed with water.
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Lauren Bacall puts her arms around actor James Cagney, left, and his friend Al Hackett at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards in New York, Jan. 19, 1982. Bacall accepted the best actor award for Henry Fonda who won for his performance in "On Golden Pond."
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, talks with actress Lauren Bacall prior to delivering a speech to a Nuclear Freeze rally at Northeastern University, Oct. 5, 1982, Boston.
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An array of stars grace the stage of Broadwayís Palace Theater in New York, May 3, 1983 during a "Parade of Stars" benefit for the Actors Fund of America. Backed by a chorus line, the participants include, from left, Christopher Plummer, Carol Channing, Richard Kiley, Lauren Bacall, David Cassidy, Gwen Verdon and Bonnie Franklin.
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Lauren Bacall speaks with Jimmy Stewart during a salute to the entertainment industry benefit in Washington Oct. 5, 1987.
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Lauren Bacall and Kirk Douglas hug during a photocall to promote their movie "Diamonds" by U.S. director John Asher to be screened at the American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France, Sept. 7, 1999.
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Lauren Bacall poses in a New York City rehearsal studio on Oct. 12, 1999. From the time of her 1944 film debut in "To Have and Have Not," Bacall has remained in the spotlight. (AP Photo/Jeff Geissler)
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Lauren Bacall waves during a photocell at the 61st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, northern Italy, Sept. 8, 2004.
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Humphrey Bogart, one of the stars of "The Desperate Hour," arrives with his wife, Lauren Bacall, for the Hollywood premiere of the picture, Oct. 12, 1955.
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Lauren Bacall poses with her honorary Oscar following The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009 Governors Awards, Nov. 14, 2009, in Los Angeles.
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Lauren Bacall poses backstage during the 82nd Academy Award March 7, 2010.
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