Lauren Bacall - Biography - IMDb Lauren Bacall Biography Showing all 115 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (73) | Personal Quotes (28) | Salary (3) Overview (5) 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Mini Bio (1) Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She is the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a salesman and her mother as a secretary. They divorced when she was five. When she was a school girl, Lauren originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with acting, so she switched gears to head into that field. She had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York after high school, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions.

Once out of school, Lauren entered modeling and, because of her beauty, appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, one of the most popular magazines in the US. The wife of famed director Howard Hawks spotted the picture in the publication and arranged with her husband to have Lauren take a screen test. As a result, which was entirely positive, she was given the part of Marie Browning in To Have and Have Not (1944), a thriller opposite the great Humphrey Bogart , when she was just 19 years old. This not only set the tone for a fabulous career but also one of Hollywood's greatest love stories (she married Bogart in 1945). It was also the first of several Bogie-Bacall films. After 1945's Confidential Agent (1945), Lauren received second billing in The Big Sleep (1946) with Bogart. The mystery, in the role of Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, was a resounding success. Although she was making one film a year, each production would be eagerly awaited by the public. In 1947, again with her husband, Lauren starred in the thriller Dark Passage (1947).

The film kept movie patrons on the edge of their seats. The following year, she starred with Bogart, Edward G. Robinson , and Lionel Barrymore in Key Largo (1948). The crime drama was even more of a nail biter than her previous film. In 1950, Lauren starred in Bright Leaf (1950), a drama set in 1894. It was a film of note because she appeared without her husband - her co-star was Gary Cooper . In 1953, Lauren appeared in her first comedy as Schatze Page in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). The film, with co-stars Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable , was a smash hit all across the theaters of America. After filming Designing Woman (1957), which was released in 1957, Humphrey Bogart died on January 14 from throat cancer. Devastated at being a widow, Lauren returned to the silver screen with The Gift of Love (1958) in 1958 opposite Robert Stack . The production turned out to be a big disappointment.

Undaunted, Lauren moved back to New York City and appeared in several Broadway plays to huge critical acclaim. She was enjoying acting before live audiences and the audiences in turn enjoyed her fine performances. Lauren was away from the big screen for five years, but she returned in 1964 to appear in Shock Treatment (1964) and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). The latter film was a comedy starring Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis . In 1966, Lauren starred in Harper (1966) with Paul Newman and Julie Harris , which was one of former's signature films. Alternating her time between films and the stage, Lauren returned in 1974's Murder on the Orient Express (1974). The film, based on Agatha Christie 's best-selling book was a huge hit. It also garnered Ingrid Bergman her third Oscar. Actually, the huge star-studded cast helped to ensure its success. Two years later, in 1976, Lauren co-starred with John Wayne in The Shootist (1976). The film was Wayne's last - he died from cancer in 1979.

In 1981, Lauren played an actress being stalked by a crazed admirer in The Fan (1981). The thriller was absolutely fascinating with Lauren in the lead role. After that production, Lauren was away from films again, this time for seven years. In the interim, she again appeared on the stages of Broadway. When she returned, it was for the filming of 1988's Mr. North (1988). After Misery (1990), in 1990, and several made for television films, Lauren appeared in 1996's My Fellow Americans (1996). It was a wonderful comedy romp with Jack Lemmon and James Garner as two ex-presidents and their escapades. Despite her advanced age and deteriorating health, she made a small-scale comeback in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki 's Howl's Moving Castle (2004) ("Howl's Moving Castle," based on the young-adult novel by Diana Wynne Jones ) as the Witch of the Waste, but future endeavors for the beloved actress became increasingly rare.

Lauren Bacall died on 12 August 2014, five weeks short of her 90th birthday. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson Spouse (2) Her thick New York City accent Trivia (73) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#6) (1995). Ranked #20 in the AFI's top 25 Actress Legends. Ranked #11 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Mother of actor Sam Robards , Stephen H. Bogart and Leslie Bogart . Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1997). Bacall lived in the same New York apartment building (The Dakota) as Beatle John Lennon when he was shot and later died on December 8, 1980. When interviewed on the subject in a recent British television program hosted by former model Twiggy , Bacall said she had heard the gunshot but assumed that it was a car tire bursting or a vehicle backfiring.

Was crowned "Miss Greenwich Village" in 1942. Used her mother's maiden name of Bacal, but added an extra "L" when she entered the cinema. Shortly after Humphrey Bogart 's death, she announced her engagement to Frank Sinatra to the press. Sinatra promptly backed out. Her screen persona was totally based and modeled after Howard Hawks 's wife, Slim. She even uses her name in To Have and Have Not (1944). She and former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres were relatives. Both had the same original last name - Perske. However, the two were not first cousins as has been commonly reported, and in a 2014 interview shortly after Bacall's death, Peres stated that he was unsure of their exact connection. Those close to her called her by her real first name, "Betty". Still undiscovered, Bacall volunteered as a hostess at the New York chapter of the Stage Door Canteen, working Monday nights when theaters were closed. Having lost her job as a showroom model and quit acting school for lack of funds, the teenage Bacall found work as a Broadway theater usher.

George Jean Nathan voted her the prettiest usher of the 1942 season in the pages of "Esquire". She was an only child of William Perske and Natalie Weinstein-Bacal. Is one of the initial "Rat Pack" with Humphrey Bogart , Frank Sinatra , Irving Paul Lazar (aka "Swifty" Lazar) and their close friends. Won a Tony Award for her role as Margo Channing in the Broadway production of "Applause", a musical based on the movie, All About Eve (1950). It was presented by Walter Matthau . With late husband Humphrey Bogart , had a kind of vocal disorder named after her. "Bogart-Bacall syndrome"' (or BBS) is a form of muscle tension dysphonia most common in professional voice users (actors, singers, television/radio presenters, etc.) who habitually use a very low speaking pitch. BBS is more common among women than men and has been blamed on "social pressure on professional women to compete with men in the business arena". Had starred, with her husband Humphrey Bogart , on the syndicated radio program "Bold Venture" (1951-52).

Her character's name was Sailor Duval. Her autobiography, "By Myself", won a National Book Award in 1980. Actress Kathleen Turner had often been compared to Bacall. When Turner and Bacall met, Turner reportedly introduced herself to Bacall by saying "Hi, I'm the young you.". 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. Was good friends with: Angela Lansbury , Bea Arthur , Julie London , Eve Arden , Virginia Mayo , John Wayne , Humphrey Bogart , Charles Boyer , Dorothy Malone , Mickey Rooney , Gregory Peck , Dirk Bogarde , Marilyn Monroe , Maureen O'Hara , Joan Rivers , Kirk Douglas , Edward Platt , Robert Stack , Bob Hope , Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr.

, Dean Martin , Katharine Hepburn , Maggie Smith , James Garner , Elizabeth Taylor , Anjelica Huston , Carol Channing , Carol Burnett , Dick Cavett , Doris Day , Jason Robards , June Allyson , Tammy Grimes , Dan Seymour , Ingrid Bergman and Spencer Tracy . Had won two Tony Awards as Best Actress (Musical): in 1970, for her role as Margo Channing in "Applause", a musical based on the movie, All About Eve (1950); and in 1981, for "Woman of the Year", also based on a movie of the same name, Woman of the Year (1942). Her Tony for "Applause" was presented by Walter Matthau . Was portrayed by Kathryn Harrold in Bogie (1980). Her appearance on a cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine at 18 years of age led to her first film role; she was spotted by the wife of director Howard Hawks , who gave her a screen test and cast her in To Have and Have Not (1944).

The role was actually based on and named for Hawks' wife at that time, Nancy Gross "Slim" Hawks. She repeated this "tribute" in Ready to Wear (1994), produced just a short time after "Slim" Hawks (name at the time of death: Nancy "Slim" Keith, Lady Keith) died, playing a character named Slim Chrysler, and released to theaters fifty years after the premier of To Have and Have Not (1944). Was mentioned along with late husband Humphrey Bogart in the 1981 song "Key Largo" ("We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall"). A well respected actress for the past sixty years, she had only been nominated once for an Academy Award. She was 73 when she was nominated for The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). Lauren's father, William Perske, was born in New Jersey, to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Lauren's mother, Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. Son Stephen H. Bogart was born on January 6, 1949.

He was named after father Humphrey Bogart 's character from To Have and Have Not (1944). Daughter Leslie Bogart was born on August 23, 1952. She was named after actor Leslie Howard , who helped Humphrey Bogart get his breakthrough role in the play, The Petrified Forest (1936). Son Sam Robards was born December 16, 1961 with second husband Jason Robards . Bacall's longtime friend Katharine Hepburn , was his godmother. Daughter Leslie Bogart is childhood friends with Lorna Luft . 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. 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. She was 17 when she met and became close friends with Gregory Peck . She was an usherette at the time. They remained close until his death. She was dismissed by Howard Hawks because she had a high nasal voice, but she spent two weeks developing her voice and, when she came back to visit Hawks two weeks later, she had a deep husky voice. According to her autobiography, "By Myself and Then Some", she was always very self-conscious about the size of her feet, which she describes as big even for a woman of her exceptional height. When Howard Hawks discovered her, he gave her the choice to work with either Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart . Bacall was very tempted to work with Grant, but Hawks ended up casting her with Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944), and one of Hollywood's greatest romances was started. She was close friends with Dirk Bogarde . Bacall had visited him at his home in London the day before he died in May 1999.

At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart , she put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line she says to him in their first film together To Have and Have Not (1944): "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow.". Campaigned for Harry S. Truman in the 1948 presidential election. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street on February 8, 1960. She was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on January 10, 1997. Humphrey Bogart campaigned for her to star alongside him as Laurel Gray in In a Lonely Place (1950), but the role was, instead, given to Gloria Grahame . One of the auditoriums in Tuckwood cineplex in Belgrade, Serbia bears her name.

Although she and her husband, Humphrey Bogart , initially protested the House Un-American Activities Committee, they both eventually succumbed to pressure and distanced themselves from the Hollywood Ten in a March 1948 Photoplay Magazine article penned by Bogart titled "I'm no communist.". According to her son Stephen, she was good friends with actress Maureen O'Hara . Was referenced in the stage and movie versions of the musical "Evita" in the song, "Rainbow High": "I'm their Savior! That's what they call me, so Lauren Bacall me. Anything goes!". Was the second name entered on IMDB, just after Fred Astaire (nm0000001) and just before Brigitte Bardot (nm0000003). Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her daughter Leslie Bogart in order to begin filming How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Delivered all three of her children ( Stephen H. Bogart , Leslie Bogart and Sam Robards ) naturally.

According to her autobiography, "By Myself and Then Some", Bacall lost her virginity to future husband Humphrey Bogart at age 19 when they began an affair in February 1944. Along with Veronica Lake , Julie London and Rita Hayworth , she was one of four inspirations that helped compose the character Jessica Rabbit. She was the only Academy Award winner to have been married to two other winners ( Humphrey Bogart , Jason Robards ). Gave birth to her 1st child at age 24, a son Stephen H. Bogart on January 6, 1949. Child's father was her 1st husband, Humphrey Bogart . Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 27, a daughter Leslie Bogart on August 23, 1952. Child's father was her 1st husband, Humphrey Bogart . Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 37, a son Sam Robards on December 16, 1961. Child's father was her 2nd [now ex] husband, Jason Robards .

She originally wanted and intended to be a dancer having attended ballet classes since infancy but in adolescence was drawn to acting. When she was 6, her parents divorced and her mother adopted the surname Bacal. Lauren added an L to it to avoid her name rhyming with crackle. Her father was a medical instrument salesman and her mother was a secretary. She was educated through the expense of wealthy uncles at Highland Manor, a private boarding school in Tarrytown, New York and Julia Richman High School in Manhattan. Lauren Bacall passed away on August 12, 2014, at age 89. A month before her death, her lifelong best friend, James Garner , passed away. Inspired by seeing Bette Davis in films, she enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where she went out with Kirk Douglas , who was there on a scholarship. As girls were not accepted for scholarships, she was forced to leave after a year and got a job modeling swim wear then gowns while in the evenings she worked as an usherette.

Lauren Bacall passed away on August 12, 2014, a month away from what would have been her 90th birthday on September 16. Lauren Bacall passed away on August 12, 2014, at age 89, and within seven months of four other television legends, either born in 1924 or 1925, aged 89: Martha Hyer , Russell Johnson , Mary Grace Canfield and Elaine Stritch , and just twenty-four days after her close friend James Garner , born 1928. Lauren Bacall passed away on August 12, 2014, at age 89. This was just one month before her longtime friend, Joan Rivers , passed away. Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. She quit smoking cigarettes in the mid-1980s. Acting mentor and friend of: Alfre Woodard . Was close friends with actress Siobahan Fallon, right up to Lauren's passing. Was physically healthy and physically active until her death at age 89.

Personal Quotes (28) I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing. I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, "I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on." And I thought, "That's right, honey, you did not." That was his concept of what a mother should be. I would hate now [2005] to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster? I'd prefer not to. I am still working, I've never stopped and, while my health holds out, I won't stop.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking. We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [ Humphrey Bogart ], James Cagney , Spencer Tracy , Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [ James Stewart ]. A legend involves the past. I don't like categories. This one is great and that one is great. The word "great" stands for something. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise . His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. I'm a total Democrat.

I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! [on Humphrey Bogart ] Was he tough? In a word, no. Bogey was truly a gentle soul. [on John Huston ] He was about something. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. On imagination: Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. [upon receiving her Honorary Oscar] A man at last! [on the Twilight films] Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the "film" was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu (1922) and told her, "Now that's a vampire film!". And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead! It's been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It's not "Bogey".

He signed it with an "ie". And that's good enough for me. A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? [on receiving an honorary Oscar] The thought when I get home that I'm going to have a two-legged man in my room is so exciting. You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing, [on filming her most famous scene, in To Have and Have Not (1944)] My hand was shaking, my head was shaking, the cigarette was shaking, I was mortified. The harder I tried to stop, the more I shook. I realized that one way to hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to my chest, and eyes up at Bogart. It worked and turned out to be the beginning of The Look. [on Bette Davis ] Well, I must say that I always loved her.

And I think that she - for me - was the best actress and the most exciting female star on the screen. I think her work will live forever. I think it's timeless. And as she got older, her talent did not diminish. I mean, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" - she - it was a wonderful job of acting that she did. She looked like a fright, but that was the part. But she could convey almost anything. She was quite an extraordinary talent. And unfortunately, she didn't have an opportunity to do as much a she wanted to, but she was a woman who had to work. And I understand that better than most people do - that you have to work. [on "Shock Treatmenr"] A nightmare!" [on "Confidential Agent"] A very bad experience for Boyer and myself. He was wonderful. But Herman Schumin, who directed, knew nothing about movies. He gave me terrible direction, if any. It was just a nightmare. Schumlin did nothing to help. The press killed me - after building me into this combination of Gabo and Dietrich and Mae West and God-knows-who. Sddenly I became this nothing.

I spent the next 20 years building myself back up to where I had any confidence at all in what I could do. [on "A Woman's Wold"] Not a giant hit, but I got terrific reviews. Clifton Webb was Bogie's old friend, and Fred MacMurray was terrific; he was someone else who was never appreciated. [on "The Cobweb"] We used to kid about that while making it; the movie was about the God-damned drapes. Vincente was a marvelous man, but totally visual. He was not so interested in actors. [on Michael Curtiz] His great talent was moving the camera around. "Bright Leaf" was a joke, but I was thrilled to work with Cooper. "Young Man," I thought was pretty good though Mike Curtiz was not the ideal director for the Bix Beiderbecke story.

Salary (3) Lauren Bacall, who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, dies at 89 - LA Times Lauren Bacall, who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, dies at 89 Screen siren Lauren Bacall dies at 89 Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. Dennis McLellan Smoky-voiced Lauren Bacall, who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, dies at 89 At 19, Lauren Bacall was living every red-blooded American woman's dream: Humphrey Bogart was standing inches from her, waiting for her to speak. They were shooting a crucial scene in director Howard Hawks' 1944 wartime drama "To Have and Have Not," but her head was shaking, as was her hand and the cigarette she was holding. And trembling was not in the script. So Bacall tipped her head down so that her chin almost touched her chest. It was the only way she could steady herself. From that stance she gazed upward at Bogart.

In that moment "the look" was born — the one that would make the sultry-voiced actress a screen legend and redefine sexuality for generations to follow. Bacall, the Hollywood icon who taught Bogart how to whistle in the film that launched her career and turned "Bogie and Bacall" into one of the movie world's most celebrated couples, died Tuesday in New York, where she had lived for several decades. She was 89. Screen siren Lauren Bacall dies at 89 Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. See more videos Her death was confirmed by Robbert de Klerk, co-managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate with her son, Stephen Bogart. The cause of death was not disclosed. In a statement released on social media, the Bogart Estate expressed deep sorrow and "great gratitude for her amazing life." Her daughter, Leslie Bogart, said the family was not releasing any other details at this time.

Few Hollywood careers began as memorably as that of Bacall, who won two Tony Awards on Broadway over an acting career that spanned more than 60 years. Read more stories She was a fledgling New York stage actress and a model whose pictures in Harper's Bazaar came to the attention of Hawks, who placed her under personal contract and cast her opposite Bogart, who at 44 was more than twice her age when they met on screen. "Anybody got a match?" Bacall, appearing in the open doorway of charter boat captain Bogart's Martinique hotel room, asks in the famous scene. He tosses a small box of matches to the tall, slim young stranger in a tailored suit with padded shoulders. She takes out a match, strikes it and gazes indifferently at Bogart before lighting her cigarette. "Thanks," she says, tossing the matchbox to him and leaving. But as much a Bacall trademark as the look she gave him was her voice, kept at a low register at Hawks' direction throughout the film. It gave the young actress a seductive worldliness that was never so evident as when she delivered one of the most famous lines in movie history to Bogart.

"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve," she says to him. "You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything — not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." Hawks later said he told Bogart that he considered him "the most insolent man on the screen, and I'm going to try to make the girl just as insolent as you." Warner Bros. trumpeted its "provocative" new discovery in the movie's trailer as "The only kind of woman for his kind of man!" Critic James Agee wrote at the time that Bacall was "the toughest girl a piously regenerate Hollywood has dreamed of in a long, long while." The on-screen chemistry between the two co-stars was an extension of what was happening off-screen. During the film's production, Bacall and the twice-divorced, unhappily married Bogart began an affair. They were married in 1945 and teamed up in three more Warner Bros.

movies over the next few years: "The Big Sleep," "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo." "To Have and Have Not" showcased Bacall in "a perfect role that set her persona for life," said Jeanine Basinger, author of "A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women" and the head of the film studies program at Wesleyan University . "So she was a legend from the very first minute," Basinger told The Times in 2004. "And she was so unique — her looks, her style, her voice." Although Bacall was dismissed by some critics early on, Basinger said, the longevity and quality of her career proved that she "wasn't just an appendage to Humphrey Bogart." In the years after their marriage, Bacall starred in films such as "Young Man with a Horn" with Kirk Douglas, "Bright Leaf" with Gary Cooper, "How to Marry a Millionaire" with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, "Blood Alley" with John Wayne, "Written on the Wind" with Rock Hudson and "Designing Woman" with Gregory Peck. But Bacall put her marriage before her career.

"I was so blinded by Bogie I couldn't think of anything else," she told the Associated Press in 1999. "All I thought of was being with him. He didn't ask me not to be an actress. But he said he had been married to three actresses and their careers always came first. If I wanted a career that badly, OK, he would help me as much as he could, but he wouldn't marry me. "I had to promise to put our life together first. That's what I did." Their marriage ended in 1957 when Bogart died of cancer at the age of 57. A brief engagement to Frank Sinatra followed, as did a rocky, eight-year marriage to actor Jason Robards. A full list of immediate survivors was not available, but they include her two children with Bogart, Stephen and Leslie, and her son with Robards, Sam. In the years after Bogart's death, Bacall's film career waned.

But she appeared on Broadway in the 1959-60 comedy "Goodbye Charlie," the 1965-68 comedy "Cactus Flower" and the 1970-72 musical "Applause," which earned Bacall her first Tony Award. Of her performance, critic Walter Kerr raved: "Miss Bacall, with this thundering appearance, ceases being a former movie star and becomes a star on the stage, thank you." Her return to Broadway in 1981 to star in "Woman of the Year," a hit musical adaptation of the old Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie, brought Bacall her second Tony Award. In 1999, she again starred on Broadway in the Noel Coward play "Waiting in the Wings." By then, she also had appeared in films such as "Harper" with Paul Newman, "The Shootist" with John Wayne, "Murder on the Orient Express" with an all-star cast and "The Fan" with James Garner.

"The Mirror Has Two Faces," a 1996 romantic comedy, brought Bacall her only Academy Award nomination, as supporting actress, for playing what Times movie critic Kenneth Turan described as Barbra Streisand's "madcap meddling mother." She appeared opposite Nicole Kidman in the 2004 mystery "Birth." A few years later she played herself in an episode of "The Sopranos" . She received an honorary Oscar in 2009. But no matter what she did personally or professionally, people never stopped identifying Bacall with Bogart, who became a major cinematic cult figure in the 1960s. "I'll never get away from him," Bacall told Newsday in 1999. "I accept that. He was the emotional love of my life, but I think I've accomplished quite a bit on my own." She was born Betty Joan Perske on Sept. 16, 1924, in New York City. Her mother left her father when Bacall, an only child, was 6, and she was raised by her mother, a corporate executive secretary.

After her parents' divorce, her mother, a Romanian emigre, took the name "Bacal," half of her maiden name Weinstein-Bacal, for herself and her daughter. (While attempting to break into acting in New York as a teenager, Bacall added the extra "l" to keep people from rhyming Bacal with "crackle.") With an uncle helping pay for her support, Bacall attended a boarding school for girls in Tarrytown, N.Y. She studied ballet and after returning to Manhattan for high school — she graduated at 15 — she took Saturday morning acting classes for four years at the New York School of the Theatre. Although she used to cut school as a teenager to see Bette Davis films, Bacall dreamed of becoming a Broadway actress, and she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met and went out with an older student, Kirk Douglas. Unable to afford a second year at the Academy, Bacall worked as a theater usher and began modeling while making the rounds for acting jobs.

Bacall's work as a model brought her to the attention of Harper's Bazaar fashion editor Diana Vreeland, which led to the magazine photos that brought her to the attention of director Hawks. Although Hawks renamed her Lauren for the screen, friends called her Betty. A lifelong Democrat who knew Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson and considered President Franklin Roosevelt "my god" — "I just worshipped him" — Bacall had a longtime interest in politics. While promoting "To Have and Have Not," she famously sat on top of an upright piano played by then-Vice President Truman at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington; the photo ran on front pages around the world. In 1947, in response to the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations into claims of communist influences in Hollywood, Bogart and Bacall joined other Hollywood stars, directors and writers in forming the Committee for the First Amendment.

Members drew up a formal petition protesting the House committee's attempt to "smear the motion picture industry," saying, in part, that "any investigation into the political beliefs of the individual is contrary to the basic principles of our democracy." Bogart and Bacall also were among a group of Hollywood celebrities who flew to Washington, D.C., to attend the hearings, meet with senators and representatives, hold press conferences and present their petition at the Capitol. Bogart and Bacall's son Stephen was born in 1949 and daughter Leslie was born in 1952, the year the family moved into a house in Holmby Hills. The Bogarts' home became the site of frequent gatherings of their show-business friends. Bacall was voted "den mother" of what became known as the Holmby Hills Rat Pack. "In order to qualify" for membership, Bacall wrote in her autobiography "By Myself," "one had to be addicted to nonconformity, staying up late, drinking, laughing and not caring what anyone thought or said about us." The good times came to an end Jan. 14, 1957, when Bogart died.

She moved to New York in 1961 to "get out from under being 'Bogart's widow,' " she later wrote, but her legacy remained intertwined with his. "Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' " she said in a cantankerous interview for Vanity Fair four years ago, shortly after breaking her hip. " 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting — because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are — that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb." McLellan is a former Times staff writer. Times staff writers Elaine Woo and Ryan Parker contributed to this report. Did Bogie destroy Lauren Bacall? | Film | The Guardian Did Bogie destroy Lauren Bacall? Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep.

Photograph: Picture library By Nina Caplan Friday 1 January 1999 12.09 EST First published on Friday 1 January 1999 12.09 EST Share on Messenger Close Even film stars rarely get to live out a screen romance. But Lauren Bacall's husky query to Humphrey Bogart: "Anybody got a match?", at the beginning of To Have And Have Not in 1944 sparked a real-life love affair which was to end only with Bogart's death from smoking-related cancer 13 years later. The two of them defined the cigarette as sex toy, lighting each other up in all kinds of ways, circumventing the strict morals of contemporary cinema with inference as heavy as cigar fumes after a party. In the opening credits of The Big Sleep, the camera rests on the cigarettes that Bogart's silhouette lights for them both, side by side in an ashtray, turning to ash while the off-screen couple presumably do whatever it is couples do that stops them smoking freshly-lit cigarettes before they burn down. Bacall has said that director Howard Hawks wanted a woman "to approach a scene with a man as a man would.

He wanted insolence and he wanted a woman in control". He got rather more than he wanted. In a pattern that would continue throughout Bogart and Bacall's life together, reality came to reflect the movie. Bogart's talk in films was all of his detachment ("I'm fighting nobody's battles but my own," he says in Key Largo) but it was just that -- talk. Bacall, with her sharp tongue and long-eyed look, rumbled him. By 1944, Bogart had made it as a star and as a romantic lead in Casablanca, although his image as the hardest-boiled egg in the coop was still a problem. Any actor who can convincingly turn down Ingrid Bergman for Claude Rains -- a beautiful woman for a beautiful friendship -- is going to have difficulties as a lead. Bogart was a last-century man, born on Christmas Day 1899. As an actor his sensibility derives from the Wild West, a lawless, gunslinging world where the code of honour is no antiquated frivolity but an essential chapter in the survivor's handbook.

Bergman in Casablanca is a lady in western terms: sappy, a liability under another name. As long as he played opposite women like this, Bogart would have to love 'em and lose 'em. But along came Betty Bacall, 19 years old and newly renamed Lauren, a model and aspiring actress who had been spotted in Harper's Bazaar magazine by Hawks's wife Slim. Lauren wasn't ever going to ask her man to think for both of them, as Bergman had in Casablanca. In To Have And Have Not, her first film, she was like the bee the drunk old sailor Eddie mentions which stings even when it's dead -- especially if it died angry. She told Bogart how to whistle, in words that a 44-year-old man was more likely to be using to a young girl than vice versa ("you just put your lips together and blow"). Bogey's Baby was a willowy blonde with slanting blue-green eyes and a habit of looking up from under them that, despite originating from nerves, was anything but coy. Of course he fell in love with her.

Anybody watching the film -- shot, unusually, in sequence -- can follow the progress of that on-screen, off-screen love, culminating in an open, tender smile Bogart never displays elsewhere on screen. Bogey always wore his toughness like an open raincoat: one of the sources of his popularity was the vulnerability visible but unacknowledged beneath. Bacall invited him in out of the storm, took that raincoat and made him comfortable. She was the poor little Jewish girl from the Bronx who looked like a lady and he was a surgeon's son who appeared to have left his tie in a vat of whisky a while back and never bothered buying a new one. They called each other Slim and Steve after their characters in the film and they took those characters home with them. Hawks, who was the original Steve to his wife's Slim (even in the film, these are nicknames: the sailor and his livewire girl are Harry and Marie), has claimed that Bogart fell in love with Bacall's character in the film, so she had to carry on playing it all her life.

But Hawks had cast himself as Pygmalion to Bacall's Galatea (she has said that he "had a kind of Svengali approach to l'il ol' me"): he made her a star, and by all accounts was keen to make her, so it is not surprising if he tried a little damage limitation when Bogart whisked her away by implying that he was the director in their relationship as well as their film. Still, it is undeniable that all three did some of their best work in the two films they made together. The chronology is interesting. Bogart was six years into his third marriage, to the actress Mayo Methot, when he met Bacall. The "Battling Bogarts", as they were known, kept a carpenter on call to repair the damage from their drunken fights. Alcoholic and mentally unstable, Mayo struggled to hang on to Bogey when he fell in love with Bacall on the To Have And Have Not set in 1944. Bogart finally left Methot on the set of The Big Sleep later that year. His divorce came through on May 10, 1945 and he married his Baby on May 21.

Bogart, normally so reliable, disrupted filming on The Big Sleep as he drank his way through the breakdown of his marriage and the insecurity of committing to a 20-year-old girl. Again, art mirrored life -- or vice versa. The Big Sleep is a film noir classic based on Raymond Chandler's novel, but even Chandler was unable to unravel the film's plot once it had been knitted into a screenplay. Bogart apparently brought shooting to a halt by asking who had killed Owen Taylor, one of the film's many corpses. Nobody knew. This is no problem for the film, a wonderfully sleazy stroll through gangsterland where only the repartee flies thicker and faster than the bullets. The underlying narrative uncertainties fit perfectly with film noir, a genre that introduced shadows on to the black and white screen of early American cinema -- shadows that mirrored the murky moral landscape behind the screen. But it must have been hell for a man whose private life was also in a shadowy state of moral confusion. Detective Philip Marlowe, Bogey's character, is very sure of himself at the start of the film, and he retains his authority throughout ("Somebody's always giving me guns," he says sarcastically at one point).

But he also gets physically and morally battered, as well as falling bruisingly in love with a girl he is not sure he trusts (Bacall, of course). Marlowe gets scared -- and admits it. This is not cowboy behaviour. Bogart is not in Kansas any more -- this is the big city, where inner spaces are sinister and outer ones are plain dangerous. What a man like Bogart always needed, in life and in his films, is a partner. Bacall was his equal in height, in toughness and in insolence -- the perfect partner. Yet she remained a girl, as opposed to the predatory women who haunt film noir, making the films and the men in them insecure and unstable. A friend of the actor once said the trouble with Bogart was that after 11pm he thought he was Bogart. But before 11pm he needed protection from the world Bogart lived in. From the moment Bacall lights a match for Bogey's cigarette before he knows he needs a light in To Have And Have Not, we know this really is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Bogart and Bacall made two more films together after their marriage, but something had changed.

The insolence of To Have And Have Not, softened to the misguided snobbery of her character in The Big Sleep, has disappeared. Dark Passage is a muddleheaded murder mystery with Bogart as an escaped prisoner sheltered by Bacall. The film deals with loneliness and injustice (Bacall, tellingly, helps save Bogart from both), but the effect is that of a child stamping its foot and crying "it's not fair'', irritating rather than moving. Agnes Moorehead's poison-tongued bitch easily outshines both leads. But Key Largo, directed by John Huston, is a superb film: Edward G Robinson's megalomaniac gangster imprisons Bogart's ex-soldier with the hotel owner, his daughter and a bunch of hoodlums in a Florida hotel during a hurricane. The love story here is as flimsy as the wind-whipped hotel, but once again Bacall's character falls for an authoritative action man; once again she provides roots -- she likens herself to a mangrove -- for a tired soldier old enough to be her father figure.

Bacall has said that on her marriage she "immediately became part of Bogey's generation'', which may account for the change in her screen persona. As well as the damage that turkeys like Confidential Agent caused her career, marriage undoubtedly came first to a child of divorce whose father was conspicuous by his absence: "I was married to a man who expected me to be there," Bacall has said. "He did not marry me so I could go off somewhere else." The Bogarts presented a united front politically too. In 1947 they were among the founding members of the Committee for the First Amendment, Hollywood's retort to the activities of Joe McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. The Bogarts went to Washington despite the inevitable suspicion of communist affiliation, and Bacall claims in her autobiography that it was her persuasion that put Bogey on that plane to Washington. They appeared to have had a wonderful marriage, but Bacall had become the little woman: a devoted homebody who doesn't talk back -- who barely talks at all. In Dark Passage, she takes Bogart's escapee in. He goes out adventuring, has everything from a fight to a facelift; she is barely seen outside her comfortable, welcoming apartment.

In Key Largo she serves as a moral barometer ("When your head says one thing, your whole life says another, your head always loses," she tells Bogart, pointing up his moral duty). Sure, she gets to spit in Edward G Robinson's face, but spitting isn't talking. Despite the flying phlegm, she is ultimately passive. The evolution of Bacall's characters in her films with Bogart as well as the virtual dissolution of the rest of her career suggests one of two things: either her sparky performance in the two Hawks films was the result of great scripts baptised with young love, or Bacall fell into the career trap waiting for any young star who was more famous for her husband than for her acting talents. The Bogarts were supposed to make another film together -- Melville Goodwin USA -- in 1956 when Bogey fell ill with the cancer of the oesophagus which was to kill him early in 1957. If marriage shut her up, children made her disappear entirely. Bogey's Baby never appeared in a film with her husband again after having a baby of her own in 1949.

She made other films, but only as a sometime model determined to marry money in How To Marry A Millionaire does she stand out, while Bogey went on to win an Oscar for his boozy sailor in The African Queen. His wife was on location with him, a homemaker in the African jungle as she was in the concrete one back home. She never regretted it. "Whenever I hear the word happy now, I think of then," she wrote in her autobiography, Lauren Bacall By Myself. In a year when the hit tune on everyone's lips was Don't Fence Me In, Bogey wrote to his fiancee, pleading "Please fence me in, Baby'' and she did. The planks she used were fashioned from her career, but it was a solid fence and both Bogarts were happy living within its parameters. The actress Gloria Stuart, who was Oscar-nominated for Titanic, was a friend of the Bogarts. She says: "It was a lovely marriage. They supported each other personally, professionally and politically. It was gemuetlich living." Since Bogart's death, Bacall has partially crawled out from under his shadow.

An eight-year marriage to actor Jason Robards, a Tony award for the stage play Applause in 1970 and her 1996 Oscar nomination for The Mirror Has Two Faces mean that Miss Bacall can look Mrs Bogart in the eye for the first time since the latter walked in and took over. "I like that. I'd like more," said Bacall to Bogart when they kissed in The Big Sleep. She got 12 years of bliss, but the price was steep: 40 years of being stung by a dead bee.

To Have And Have Not is re-released next Friday Alluring Hollywood star whose career was defined through her partnership with Humphrey Bogart Published: 12 Aug 2014 The actor, best known for The Big Sleep and How to Marry a Millionaire, dies at family home after suffering stroke Published: 12 Aug 2014 From the moment she appeared on the big screen in the 1940s, Lauren Bacall hypnotised audiences with her talent and raw beauty Published: 12 Aug 2014 In Lauren Bacall, we lose one of Hollywood’s wisest crackers on screen and off – here are some of her sharpest lines Published: 13 Aug 2014 Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Email You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” When a willowy young actress named Lauren Bacall uttered those seductive words to the grizzled Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks’s 1944 film To Have and Have Not, she foreshadowed a passion that would go far beyond the silver screen.

“Everyone could see their love right there on celluloid,” says their son Steve Bogart, 47. “He was the great love of her life, and she his.” In 1943, the year that she was signed by Warner Bros., Bacall, whose career had been launched by a cover of Harper’s Bazaar, was a 19-year-old model with a patrician grace but no acting experience. Bogie, 44 and a major star in the Warner stable, was in a deteriorating marriage (his third) to Mayo Methot, an actress who was battling both the bottle and—as gossip column accounts of their brawls suggested—Bogie. When Hawks told Betty, as Bacall was known, that he’d like to cast her opposite either Bogie or Cary Grant, she remembered thinking, “Cary Grant—terrific! Humphrey Bogart—yuck.” At their first meeting, at the Warner Bros, studio, she found Bogart “slighter than I imagined—5’10½”—wearing his costume of no-shape trousers, cotton shirt and scarf around neck.

Nothing of import was said, but he seemed a friendly man.” Some weeks later, after auditioning for To Have and Have Not, she again bumped into Bogie. “I just saw your test,” he said. “We’ll have a lot of fun together.” The fun didn’t start at once. Though her character in the film was sophisticated, in real life Bacall was sexually inexperienced and so nervous on the set that she physically shook. During her first scene, “I realized that one way to hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to my chest, and eyes up at Bogart,” she wrote in her 1978 autobiography, Lauren Bacall: By Myself. “It worked.” In fact, “the Look” would be known as Bacall’s trademark. As filming progressed, Bacall warmed to her costar and he to her. “I don’t know how it happened. It was almost imperceptible,” she wrote. Three weeks into the movie, she was sitting at her dressing table, combing her hair, when Bogie came in to say goodnight.

“He was standing behind me—we were joking as usual—when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin and kissed me.” She gave him her phone number on the back of a matchbook. For the next year, the two held clandestine trysts wherever they could—always careful not to further enrage Methot, whom Bogie was in the process of divorcing. When they would see each other or talk on the phone, “his first words were always, ‘Hello, Baby,’ ” she wrote. “My heart would literally pound.” He was, she thought, “a gentle man—diametrically opposed to most of the parts he played.” Bogie was tortured by their secrecy. “I wish with all my heart that things were different,” he wrote to her. “When I walked away from you that last time and saw you standing there so darling, I did die a little in my heart.” On May 21, 1945, shortly after his divorce came through, he and Bacall were married on a friend’s farm in Ohio.

Three years later, their son Stephen (named after Bogie’s character in To Have and Have Not) was born, and in 1952 they had a daughter, Leslie. Of the years that followed, Bacall would write, “Whenever I think of the word ‘happy’ now, I think of then.” They made three more movies together, and in their Holmby Hills house in Los Angeles, she cooked, gardened and entertained the couple’s high-profile Hollywood friends. Bogie loved it. “She’s my wife, so she stays home and takes care of me,” he boasted. “Maybe that’s the way you tell the ladies from the broads in this town.” But Bacall’s real chance to prove what she was made of came in the terrible months after the winter of 1956, when Bogie was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. A tender Bacall nursed him throughout the illness, and on Jan. 14, 1957, he died. Afterward, the devastation that the 33-year-old Bacall suffered was nearly indescribable.

She tried an affair with Frank Sinatra and a rocky, 12-year marriage to Jason Robards, but ultimately it was her children (including son Sam Robards) and career that restored her. In the end, Bacall would be forever associated with her first husband. Indeed, their image as ideal lovers was so strong that in 1981 they provided the hook for a popular song, “Key Largo”: “We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall…” Show Full Article Lauren Bacall's voice resonated with women - LA Times Lauren Bacall's voice resonated with women Lauren Bacall costars with Gregory Peck in "Designing Woman" Hulton Archive / Getty Images Lauren Bacall starred with Gregory Peck in “Designing Woman” in 1957. That was also the year she lost husband and frequent costar Humphrey Bogart. Lauren Bacall starred with Gregory Peck in “Designing Woman” in 1957. That was also the year she lost husband and frequent costar Humphrey Bogart. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Betsy Sharkey Lauren Bacall captivated men, inspired women and owned every scene she was in The voice.

If you heard it once, you never forgot. So distinctive was its smoky, sexual growl, you could pick it out of a lineup. Its owner, Lauren Bacall, wrapped it around words, controlling them, making them slightly dangerous, making them do her bidding, along with the men, and it was usually men, who were hanging on to each one. But Bacall, who died Tuesday at the grand old age of 89, was so much more than the voice. And more than an actress, she was a symbol of the kind of woman that postwar 1950s-era housewives would dream of becoming — and that the feminist movement would lionize. Intelligent, independent and, yes, a sexual being. But one in charge. She was a spitfire from the start. At 5 feet, 8½ inches, she was taller than the other young women making names in the movie business in the 1940s and '50s. She had an elegant, high-end style that made her a photographer's favorite long before paparazzi became a bad word.

But she wasn't a classic beauty — those cheekbones, those come-hither eyes, the sense of entitlement that she radiated on screen made her seem dangerous, too hot to handle long before Hollywood tried, and failed, to handle her. Screen siren Lauren Bacall dies at 89 Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. Sultry Hollywood screen and stage legend Lauren Bacall has died at the age of 89. See more videos On screen, even after all these years, Bacall is still best known for her first film and her first husband. She was just 19 and Humphrey Bogart 44 when they began filming "To Have and Have Not." Soon they were Bogie and Bacall, married not long after, and iconic almost immediately, whether they wanted to be or not. It was a great love, the kind that, well, they made movies about. His death at 57 of cancer did not end the romance or, at least, the public's fascination with it.

For all the incredible poise and presence she brought in that first 1944 film, and the others she would do with Bogie before he died, Bacall registered immediately as a fierce woman in a time when that quality wasn't highly valued in Hollywood. Alongside Bogart, she would protest the House Un-American Activities Committee's targeting of actors. In the business, it marked her as difficult. Read more stories That she had a string of hits by the time she was 30, including "The Big Sleep" and "Key Largo," should have ensured her marquee status. But it did not. In the years after Bogart's death, there were a few notable films, including "North West Frontier," but by the '60s she was more often taking guest spots on TV series, such as "Dr. Kildare." For years, Broadway would claim her, as the Great White Way has a habit of embracing difficult women. There Bacall would prove her acting mettle, winning a Tony for "Applause" in 1970, which would turn into an Emmy-nominated TV movie a few years later with its "All About Eve" story line.

In 1981, she again won a Tony, for "Woman of the Year," a role Katharine Hepburn, another iconic actress, had put her stamp on. In the post-Bogie era — many, many years of it — she became more of a character actor on screen. As Lauren Bacall, legend, in a walk-on part in the sixth season of "The Sopranos," she is literally punched out by Tony Soprano's favorite bad-boy nephew, Christopher (Michael Imperioli), who steals her pricey celebrity gift bag. It was 2006, she was in her 80s, and she took the punch like a champ. Even though at times she seemed underappreciated by the movie world, she was nearly always working. She was booked to film a crime movie when she died. On film, there were multiple roles each year for many years. She would — fittingly — be one-half of a bickering married couple opposite Henry Fonda in the film adaptation of Helen Gurley Brown's bestselling "Sex and the Single Girl" in 1964.

She turned up as a rural woman helping protect Nicole Kidman's troubled woman on the run in Lars von Trier's "Dogville" in 2003. Bacall was rarely vulnerable on screen. But it is there in the overlooked 1991 film "A Star for Two" opposite Anthony Quinn. They play lovers trying to rekindle a romance 40 years later, and the ache in her eyes is exquisite. As a leading actress, Bacall, in a sense, was typecast early on. The sultry woman who was smarter than anyone else in the room — opposite Gregory Peck in 1957's "Designing Woman," as part of the trio of hotties alongside Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable in 1953's "How to Marry a Millionaire," and the list goes on. Whether she toplined the movie or was just a minor character, Bacall always owned any scene she was in. Not that she wasn't generous to those playing opposite her — she was — but the eye just gravitated back toward her, to whatever that voice was saying.

There is a remarkable moment in "The Mirror Has Two Faces," the 1996 film that would earn Bacall an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe. As mother to Barbra Streisand's newly-in-love professor, they are talking over morning coffee. It's a quiet scene but filled with pathos as Bacall, as the mother, looks at her daughter and says, "Awful thing to look back on your life and realize you've settled." Much of the moment's power is that sense you have that Bacall never settled. She lived an exceptional life and, for all of its ups and downs — the marriage with actor Jason Robards that came later and ultimately came apart, the way Hollywood didn't always make the most of her talent — none of it matters. Bacall was Bacall through it all, and it doesn't get any better than that.

Question: Lauren Bacall was married at different times to Humphrey Bogart and which other actor?
Answer: Jason Robards