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:
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
Cactus Flower
Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower
Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower
Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower
Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower
Applause Playbill - Sept 1970
Director Ron Field and Lauren Bacall in rehearsal for Applause
Director Ron Field and Lauren Bacall in rehearsal for Applause
Lauren Bacall in Applause
Lauren Bacall in Applause
Lauren Bacall and Len Cariou in Applause
Lauren Bacall in Applause
Len Cariou and Lauren Bacall in Applause
Lauren Bacall in Applause
Lauren Bacall and Walter Matthau at the 1970 Tony Awards.
Lauren Bacall, publicity still for the 1971 Tony Awards
Robert Mandan and Lauren Bacall in the TV movie of Applause
Woman of the Year Playbill - June 1981
Lauren Bacall and Harry Guardino in rehearsal for Woman of the Year
Lauren Bacall and cast in Woman of the Year
Martha Swope
Harry Guardino and Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year
Helon Blount, Lauren Bacall and Marian Haraldson in Woman of the Year
Lauren Bacall and Harry Guardino in Woman of the Year
Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year
Waiting in the Wings Playbill
Lauren Bacall and Patricia Conolly in Waiting in the Wings
Elizabeth Wilson, Rosemary Murphy, Helena Carroll, Patricia Conolly, Lauren Bacall, Rosemary Harris and Bette Henritze in Waiting in the Wings
Rosemary Harris and Lauren Bacall in Waiting in the Wings
