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The death of classic Hollywood leading lady Lauren Bacall was announced today. A New Yorker by birth, she began her career modelling when she was snapped up by the movies to star alongside Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, an event which changed both her professional and private lives. She and Bogart fell in love and were married, going on to star in further vehicles which were hits with a public captivated by their romance: The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo. From a renowned beauty in her early career, she matured into a waspish character actress in films such as Young Man with a Horn, musical How to Marry a Millionaire, The Cobweb, Douglas Sirk favourite Written on the Wind, rip-roaring adventure North West Frontier, detective yarn Harper, Murder on the Orient Express, John Wayne's final bow The Shootist, HealtH and The Fan (both with James Garner), Stephen King horror Misery, Pret-a-Porter, Lars von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay, Birth and The Walker. Always popular for her frank anecdotes about old Hollywood, she was working right to the end, one of the last of the Golden Age stars. |
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