Born in New York City on Sept. 16, 1924, Lauren Bacall studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After a stint as a model and off-Broadway performer, she was cast by Howard Hawks in To Have and Have Not (1944), opposite her future husband Humphrey Bogart.Bacall is perhaps best known for her film roles with Bogart, including The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). After Bogart's death in 1957, Bacall appeared in several Broadway shows but returned to film in 1964 with Sex and the Single Girl.
Bacall has remained active in film with roles in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Shootist (1976), Misery (1990) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. In 2003, Bacall worked on the controversial film Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier, and its follow-up, Manderlay (2005).
The Big SleepA dangerous blackmailer has targeted the Sternwoods, a wealthy family once tucked away in the safety of their Los Angeles mansion. But while private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) works on the case, he ends up falling for the clan's fiery daughter (Lauren Bacall). Crackling dialogue and the... Read More
Written on the WindSelf-pitying Texas oil millionaire Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack) tries to cure his alcoholic ills by stealing the virtuous Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall) from best friend Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson). When Kyle learns he may be sterile and Lucy becomes pregnant, her green-eyed sister-in-law (Dorothy Malone)... Read More
To Have and Have NotDynamic duo William Faulkner and Jules Furthman scripted this Howard Hawks classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (who, rumor has it, fell in love on the set) that's supposedly based on an Ernest Hemingway tome. Bogie is Harry Morgan, a charter boat owner who falls for Bacall's seductive... Read More
Dark PassageHumphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall grace the screen in this classic 1947 thriller about a convict who escapes from San Quentin to hunt down his wife's true killer. To complete his mission, he must escape detection by the cops. So he undergoes plastic surgery and hides out in the home of a mysterious... Read More
HarperPaul Newman steps into the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe as Lew Harper, a "new type" of detective -- as he puts it. Lauren Bacall plays the wife of a missing millionaire who hires the reluctant Harper to find him. Coming across a menagerie of pulp characters including a... Read More
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Wholphin: Issue 10 (2010) | NR | |
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The Walker (2007) | R | |
These Foolish Things (2006) | NR | |
Toots (2006) | NR | |
Manderlay (2005) | NR | |
Hollywood Couples (2005) | NR | |
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Dogville (2004) | R | |
Broadway's Lost Treasures II (2004) | NR | |
Birth (2004) | R | |
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The Fabulous '50s (2002) | NR | |
Blushing Bloopers (2002) | NR | |
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Directors: Barbra Streisand (2000) | NR | |
Diamonds (1999) | PG-13 | |
The Best of Film Noir (1999) | NR | |
Presence of Mind (1999) | PG-13 | |
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) | PG-13 | |
My Fellow Americans (1996) | PG-13 | |
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Misery (1990) | R | |
Mr. North (1988) | PG | |
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The Fan (1981) | R | |
The Shootist (1976) | PG | |
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | PG | |
Harper (1966) | NR | |
Shock Treatment (1964) | NR | |
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) | NR | |
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Designing Woman (1957) | NR | |
Written on the Wind (1956) | NR | |
Blood Alley (1955) | NR | |
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) | NR | |
Best of Person to Person (1953) | NR | |
Young Man with a Horn (1949) | NR | |
Key Largo (1948) | NR | |
Dark Passage (1947) | NR | |
The Big Sleep (1946) | NR | |
To Have and Have Not (1944) | NR | |
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