Lauren Bacall

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Betty Joan Perske, professionally known as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. She was known for her alluring, sultry presence and her distinctive, husky voice. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Bacall began a career as a model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency before making her film debut at the age of twenty as the leading lady opposite her future husband Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not. She continued in the film noir genre with appearances alongside her new husband in The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo, and she starred in the romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire and Designing Woman. She portrayed the female lead in Written on the Wind, which is considered one of Douglas Sirk's seminal films. She later acted in Harper, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Shootist.

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