Lauren Bacall Biography

Fast Facts

• Received the Bette Davis Medal of Honor by the Bette Davis Foundation in 2008
• Won a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Mirror Has Two Faces" in 1997
• Received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1997 for her contributions to the arts
• Ranked No․ 20 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years ․․․100 Stars" list for Female Legends
• Was honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Board of Review, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Stockholm Film Festival, among others
• Worked as a model and a theater usher before getting her first role, a walk-on in Broadway's "Johnny 2 x 4," in 1942
• Made her screen acting debut as Marie "Slim" Browning in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not․"
• Was discovered when director Howard Hawks' wife spotted her modeling in a small picture in Vogue Magazine
• Quote: "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that․"
• Quote: "[on being called a legend] "It's a title and category I am less than fond of․ Aren't legends dead?""
• Often collaborated with her first husband, Humphrey Bogart, in her earliest films, including "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep․"
• Widely recognized for her distinctively husky speaking voice
• Best known for playing Vivian Rutledge in "The Big Sleep" and Nora Temple in "Key Largo․"
• After seeing Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," she claimed she couldn't understand why a friend was "mad about him," later remarking, "So much for my judgment at that time․"