has died at the age of 89. The US actress, a star of
Hollywood's golden age of cinema, passed away at home after suffering a stroke. In a short statement, her family said, "With deep sorrow, yet great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall."
© Photo: Getty ImagesLauren, who was best known for her
husky voice and smouldering stare, had a Hollywood career that spanned a remarkable seven decades.Born Betty Joan Perske in Brooklyn, New York, in 1924, she made her
silver screen debutat the age of 19 in
To Have and Have Not, opposite her future husband
Humphrey Bogart.
Iconic couples: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey BogartThat film also gave her one of her most memorable lines – "You don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?
You just put your lips together and… blow."
© Photo: Getty ImagesShe went on to star with Humphrey in
Key Largo,
The Big Sleepand
Dark Passage. The couple were
married from 1945 until his death in 1957, and had two children together.She had a third baby with her second husband
Jason Robards, to who she was married between 1961 and 1969.Lauren's other screen credits included
How To Marry A Millionaire, which she starred in alongside
Marilyn Monroeand Betty Grable, and
Murder On The Orient Express.
© Photo: Getty ImagesAs late as 1996, she
won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nominationfor her work in
The Mirror Has Two Faces, and in 2009 received an
honourary Academy Awardfor "
her central place in the golden age of motion pictures".
