“The life is stranger. My life is what I never waited that it was” (Lauren Bacall).
Been born Betty Joan Perske in
New York the 16 of September of 1924, was created without the father since the three
years, when this if ordered. Perhaps, for this, it has searched the image paternal good part of the life. It lived with the mother and the uncle and studied in the Actor's Studio. She was usherette in Theaters of the Broadway and model in luxury store. To the 19 years, it received the invitation to posar as layer of the Haper's Bazaar, reviewed of fashion.
Slim Hawks, wife of the director Howard Hawks, saw it in the magazine and disclosed who would come to be a diva of the cinema. It broke the invitation from there to interpret Marie, personage of the new film of Hawks, an Adventure in the Martinica.
As Marie Browning, faced the machista hero of Humphrey Bogart. The paper relieved compliments and a great
success. They said that Bacall had the sensuality of Marlene Dietrich, the arrogance of Greta Garbo and the beauty of Rita Hayworth. After the film, Lauren was married its co-astro Humphrey Bogart, 25 years older than it.
Married with Bogart, the home was dedicated to it, had two children and it did not make as many films how much Howard Hawks waited after bringing it of New York. Lauren, after the first film, acted to the side of Charles Boyer in Confidential Agent, considered a failure.
But Hawks placed it in return in the scene in the a Side of the Abyss, with Bogart. Success of public, all wanted to unmask the mystery of the tram, but nor Raymond Chandler, creator of history, obtained to understand what she writes. E, together with the Maltês Hawk, To the Side of the Abyss is considered one of the classic greaters of the cinema to noir.
Bacall and Bogart had still acted in Prisoner of the Past and Passions in Fury, this last one had as one of the best films of John Huston. Without Bogart, Bacall appeared with Rock Hudson in Words to the Wind, of Douglas Sirk; Fugaz success, to the side of Kirk Douglas; e As To grasp a Millionaire, having as coadjuvantes Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. It still had Bloody Route, with John Wayne; Passions without Brakes, of Vincente Minelli etc.
In 1957, after the ending of the filmings of Your Name is Woman, comedy in which the actress contrascene with Gregory Peck, Bogart died of cancer. The marriage lasted 11 years. With the death of Bogart, Hollywood wanted to forget it, therefore they had always considered it Mrs. Humphrey Bogart.
It returned, then, the NewoYork and dedicated the Broadway to it. The theater, above of the cinema, was a passion. It worked in success parts. Cactus Flower and Applause, relieved prizes to it Tony and the recognition. In 1969, when they had decided to film Cactus Flower, they had preferred Ingrid Bergman as protagonist. In New York, it was married Jason Robards and had had a son, Sam Robards, also is actor.
In 1974, came back the Hollywood and had an performance acclaimed in Murder in the Orient Express. Nothing of prizes. It opted to the return to the palcos of the Broadway and acted in the assemblies the Candy Bird of Youth (of Tennesse Williams), Goodbye Charlie, Woman of the Year and Wonderful Town.
Had small participation in the cinema. It made the last film of John Wayne, the Last Gunman: The Fan - Blind Obsession (1980) and Insane person Obsession, of Rob Reiner (1990). In 1996, Barbra Streisand invited it to interpret Hannah in the Mirror has Two Faces. The Golden Globe earned, but not it Oscar. It came back to the screens, the side of Nicole Kidman, in the film of Lars Von Trier, Dogville (Reincarnation, 2005). The actress alone deferred payment in the famous Dakota building (NY) In its second autobiografia NOW, Lauren continues loving Humphrey Bogart. E, in 2007, will come back to telona in The Walker.