Photo FeaturesCelebrating 2-Time Tony Winner Lauren BacallLook back at the life and career of late stage and screen icon Lauren Bacall.
By
Playbill Staff
September 16, 2019
Lauren Bacall in Applause.
Lauren Bacall was born September 16, 1924. The two-time Tony Award winner, also the recipient of an honorary Academy Award, is well-known for her acclaimed film roles, including To Have and Have Not,Key Largo,How To Marry a Millionaire,The Mirror Has Two Faces, and many more. She has also penned two memoirs: By Myself and Now.
She win Tony Awards for her starring turn in two Broadway musicals: Applause, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's adaptation of the film All About Eve, and Woman of the Year, a John Kander and Fred Ebb show drawn from the classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film.
Other Broadway credits include Goodbye Charlie, Cactus Flower, and Waiting In the Wings. She also appeared in the U.K. in The Visit, and in regional productions of Wonderful Town and Sweet Bird of Youth. She died August 12, 2014.
Flip through her stage highlights below:
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Celebrating Two-Time Tony Winner Lauren Bacall
Celebrating Two-Time Tony Winner Lauren Bacall
Looking back at the life and career of late stage and screen icon.
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Goodbye, Charlie
Lauren Bacall and Sydney Chaplin in Goodbye Charlie
Lauren Bacall and Sydney Chaplin in Goodbye Charlie
Lauren Bacall, Sarah Marshall and Sydney Chaplin in Goodbye Charlie
Lauren Bacall and Sydney Chaplin in Goodbye Charlie
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