LAUREN BACALL - APPLAUSE PLEASE!

On Saturday, November 14th Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy's Governors Awards ceremony. Bacall, who was born on September 16, 1924 (85) as Betty Joan Perske, starred in more than 60 films but never won an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, coming closest with a nomination for "The Mirror Has Two Faces".
The screen siren earned movie immortality with her husky voice, sultry gaze and curt retorts in films like "Dark Passage," and her 1944 debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" launched one of the most electric on- and off-screen pairings in cinema history.
Other films that she had acted in that are some of my favorite include:
Key Largo - as Nora Temple with Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.
Bright Leaf - as Sonia Kovac wtih Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal
Dark Passage - as Irene Jansen with Humphrey Bogart
How to Marry a Millionaire - as Schatze Page with Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable
Written on the Wind - as Lucy Moore Hadley with Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone.
Sex and the Single Girl - as Sylvia Broderick with Natalie Wood
The Shootist - as Bond Rogers with John Wayne
Murder on the Orient Express - as Mrs. Hubbard

With 69 films to her credit and not to forget her wonderful performances on Broadway in "Applause" and "Woman of the Year" which garnered her Tony Awards.
I would recommend you take a look at her very interesting and talented film career as well as picking up a copy of her autobiography "By Myself".

I have thoroughly enjoyed her performances and believe she has led a true fascinating Hollywood career and to date a very good life.

And most of all she was the voice over for Fancy Feast commercials.

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