Lauren Bacall on screen and stage

American actress Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) had an extensive career in films, television shows, and plays. She was one of the leading ladies during the Golden Age of Hollywood along with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth.^[1] Bacall started her career as a teenage fashion model when she appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and was discovered by Howard Hawks' wife Nancy.^[2][3] As she naturally had a high-pitched and nasal voice, she received lessons to help deepen it and was required to shout verses by Shakespeare for hours every day as part of her training.^[4][5]

Publicity photo, March 1945

Bacall's first film appearance was with Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not. The following year she married Bogart and went on to appear with him in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). She also starred in comedies such as How to Marry a Millionaire in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe, Designing Woman in 1957 with Gregory Peck, and Sex and the Single Girl in 1964 with Natalie Wood. Bacall also appeared in Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Shootist (1976).

In Bacall's later years, she appeared in the films All I Want for Christmas (1991), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), My Fellow Americans (1996), Diamonds (1999), Dogville (2003), Eve (2008) Wide Blue Yonder (2010) and The Forger (2012). For her role as Hannah Morgan in The Mirror Has Two Faces, Bacall won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award.^[6][7][8] Her television work included appearances on Mr. Broadway (1964), Chicago Hope (1998), and The Rockford Files (1979), as well as providing the voice of Evelyn on the animated series Family Guy (2014).

Bacall also performed on Broadway in the plays Cactus Flower in 1965 and The Visit in 1995 and musicals such as Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. For her roles in Applause and Woman of the Year, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.^[9][10]

Filmography

In To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart (1944)

In Dark Passage with Humphrey Bogart (1947)

In How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1944-10-111944	To Have and Have Not	Marie "Slim" Browning		[2]
1945-11-021945	Confidential Agent	Rose Cullen		[11]
1946-07-261946	Two Guys from Milwaukee	Herself (cameo)		[12]
	The Big Sleep	Vivian Sternwood Rutledge		[2]
1947-09-05 1947	Dark Passage	Irene Jansen		[2]
1948-07-161948	Key Largo	Nora Temple		[2]
1950-02-091950	Young Man with a Horn	Amy North		[2]
	Bright Leaf	Sonia Kovac		[11]
1953-11-051953	How to Marry a Millionaire	Schatze Page		[2]
1954-09-301954	Woman's World	Elizabeth Burns	Alternate title: A Woman's World	[13]
1955-07-151955	The Cobweb	Meg Faversen Rinehart		[14]
	Blood Alley	Cathy Grainger		[1]
1956-12-011956	Written on the Wind	Lucy Moore Hadley		[11]
1957-05-161957	Designing Woman	Marilla Brown Hagen		[2]
1958-02-111958	The Gift of Love	Julie Beck		[11]
1959-10-071959	North West Frontier	Catherine Wyatt	Alternate title: Flame Over India	[11]
1964-07-221964	Shock Treatment	Dr. Edwina Beighley		[11]
	Sex and the Single Girl	Sylvia Broderick		[15]
1966-02-231966	Harper	Elaine Sampson	Alternate title: The Moving Target	[11]
1974-11-241974	Murder on the Orient Express	Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard		[11]
1976-08-201976	The Shootist	Bond Rogers		[2]
1980-09-121980	HealtH	Esther Brill		[1]
1981-05-151981	The Fan	Sally Ross		[2]
1988-04-151988	Appointment with Death	Lady Westholme		[16]
	Mr. North	Amelia Cranston		[11]
	John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick	Herself	Documentary film	[17]
1989-03-071989	Tree of Hands	Marsha Archdale	Alternate title: Innocent Victim	[18]
1990	Misery	Marcia Sindell		[2]
19911991	A Star for Two	Edwige		[15]
	All I Want for Christmas	Lillian Brooks		[19]
1994-12-231994	Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)	Slim Chrysler		[11]
1996-11-151996	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Hannah Morgan		[2]
	My Fellow Americans	Margaret Kramer		[11]
1997-02-121997	Day and Night	Sonia	French title: Le Jour et la Nuit	[20]
1999-01-241999	Get Bruce	Herself	Documentary film	[21]
	Madeline: Lost in Paris	Madame Lacroque (voice)	Animated film	[22]
	Diamonds	Sin-Dee		[11]
	Presence of Mind	Mado Remei		[11]
	The Venice Project	Countess Camilla Volta		[23]
	A Conversation with Gregory Peck	Herself	Documentary film	[24]
2003-05-192003	Dogville	Ma Ginger		[2]
	Gone Dark	May Markham	Alternate title: The Limit	[25]
2004-09-052004	Howl's Moving Castle	Witch of the Waste (voice)	Animated film	[19]
	Birth	Eleanor		[1]
	Amália Traïda	TV Announcer	Short film	[26]
2005-05-162005	Manderlay	Mam		[1]
2006-03-102006	These Foolish Things	Dame Lydia		[27]
2007-08-102007	The Walker	Natalie Van Miter		[28]
2008-09-012008	Eve	Grandma	Short film	[29]
	Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King	The Grand Witch (voice)	Animated film	[30]
2010-08-192010	Wide Blue Yonder	May	Alternate title: All at Sea	[31]
2011	The Forger	Anne-Marie Cole	Alternate title: Carmel-by-the-Sea (final film role)	[11]
2012	Ernest & Celestine	The Grey One (voice)	Animated film (final animated film role)	[19]

Television

With Humphrey Bogart (middle) and Henry Fonda in the TV broadcast play "The Petrified Forest", (1956)

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1953	What's My Line?	Herself – Mystery Guest	3 episodes	[32]
1954	Light's Diamond Jubilee	Herself – Guest Star	Television special	[33]
1955	Producers' Showcase	Gabby Maple	Episode: "The Petrified Forest"	[34]
1956	Ford Star Jubilee	Elvira Condomine	Episode: "Blithe Spirit"	[1]
1963	The DuPont Show of the Week	Lorraine Boswell	Episode: "A Dozen Deadly Roses"	[35]
	Dr. Kildare	Virginia Herson	Episode: "The Oracle"	[15]
1964	Mr. Broadway	Barbara Lake	Episodes: "Take a Walk Through a Cemetery", "Something to Sing About"	[36]
1965	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Amanda / Barbara	Episode: "Double Jeopardy"	[37]
1973	Applause	Margo Channing	Television special (videotaped stage performance)	[38]
1975	Happy Endings	Catharine	Television special (segment: "A Commercial Break")	[39]
1978	Perfect Gentlemen	Lizzie Martin	Television film	[40]
1979	The Rockford Files	Kendall Warren	Episodes: "Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs: Part 1 & 2"	[41]
1989	Dinner at Eight	Carlotta Vance	Television film	[1]
1990	A Little Piece of Sunshine	Beatrix Coltrane		[42]
1991	HBO Storybook Musicals	Freezelda (voice)	Episode: "The Ice Queen's Mittens"	[43]
1993-02-131993	The Portrait	Fanny Church	Television film	[44]
	General Motors Playwrights Theater	Herself – Host	10 episodes	[45]
	A Foreign Field	Lisa	Television film	[46]
	Great Performances	Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music"	[47]
1995-06-031995	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Television film	[48]
1998	Chicago Hope	Samara Visco Klein	Episodes: "Risky Business", "Absent Without Leave"	[49]
1999	Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke	Doris Duke	Television miniseries	[11]
2006	The Sopranos	Herself – Guest Star	Episode: "Luxury Lounge"	[2]
20082008	Empire State Building Murders	Penny Baxter	Television film	[50]
2014	Family Guy	Evelyn (voice)	Episode: "Mom's the Word" (final television role)	[51]

Theatre

With Humphrey Bogart (left) and AFRS Broadcaster Jack Brown during a broadcast to troops overseas during World War II.

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1942	Johnny 2x4	Ensemble	Broadway (credited as Betty Bacall)	[12]
	Franklin Street	Unnamed teenager		[2]
1959	Goodbye Charlie	Charlie	Broadway	[52]
1965	Cactus Flower	Stephanie		[52]
1970	Applause	Margo Channing	Broadway and West End	[53]
1977	Wonderful Town	Ruth Sherwood	Summer stock	[54]
1979	V.I.P. Night on Broadway	Herself	Broadway (benefit concert)	[55]
1981	Woman of the Year	Tess Harding	Broadway	[15]
1985	Sweet Bird of Youth	The Princess Kosmonopolis	West End	[56]
1989	The Players Club Centennial Salute	Herself	Broadway (benefit concert)	[57]
1995	The Visit	Claire Zachanassian	Chichester Festival	[58]
1996	Angela Lansbury: A Celebration	Herself	Broadway (benefit concert)	[59]
1999	Waiting in the Wings	Lotta Bainbridge	Broadway	[27]

Radio

• Lux Radio Theatre (1946) - Episode: To Have and Have Not^[60]
• Bold Venture (1951–1952) - 78 episodes^[61]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Lauren Bacall
• Humphrey Bogart on stage, screen, radio and television

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External links

• Lauren Bacall on screen and stage at IMDb
• Lauren Bacall on screen and stage at the TCM Movie Database