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Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall

Her marriage to Humphrey Bogart occurred at the Pleasant Valley area of Richland County, Ohio home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm (4 miles southeast of Lucas within Monroe Township). The home is now an Ohio State Park.

Her screen personna was totally based and modeled after Howard Hawks's wife, Slim. She even uses her name in To Have and Have Not (1944).

Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 1724 Vine Street.

In Italy, she was dubbed by Clelia Bernacchi at the beginning of her career, then in most cases by Lidia Simoneschi. Franca Dominici, Renata Marini and Anna Miserocchi also lent their voice to Bacall at some point.

Is half Romanian



Is mentioned along with late husband Humphrey Bogart in the 1980s song "Key Largo" ("We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall").

Is portrayed by Kathryn Harrold in Bogie (1980) (TV)

Is referenced in the stage and movie versions of Evita in the song, "Rainbow High": "I'm their Savior! That's what they call me, so Lauren Bacall me. Anything goes!".

Measurements: 34-26-34 (her 1940 modeling card) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Mother of actor Sam Robards, Stephen Bogart and Leslie Bogart.

One of the auditoriums in Tuckwood cineplex in Belgrade, Serbia bears her name.

One of the initial "Rat Pack" with Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Irving Paul Lazar (aka "Swifty" Lazar) and their close friends.

Originally wanted to be a dancer.

Quit smoking cigarettes in the mid-1980s.

Ranked #11 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Ranked #20 in the AFI's top 25 Actress Legends.

She and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres (as of 2007, the President of Israel) are cousins. Both have the same original last name -- Perske.

She made two movies with John Wayne, Blood Alley (1955) and The Shootist (1976). In the earlier film, during production, Bacall's husband at the time, Humphrey Bogart, was dying of throat cancer. When she made the latter film with Wayne, he had lost a lung to cancer twelve years earlier, which mirrored the fate of his character in the story.

She was 17 when she met and became a close friend of Gregory Peck. She was an usherette at the time. They remained close until his death.

She was a close friend of Dirk Bogarde. Bacall had visited him at his home in London the day before he died in May 1999.

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