Lauren Bacall, who made her film debut at age 19, has died. She was 89.
Actress Lauren Bacall has died of a stroke at her home in Manhattan, according to reports in numerous media outlets, including Variety. She was 89 years old.
Her death was announced in a Tweet by the estate of her late husband, Humphrey Bogart: “With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall.”
Bacall, who started as a model, made her film debut in 1944 at age 19 in To Have or Have Not, starring opposite Bogart. They married soon after, even though he was more than 20 years her senior, and remained devoted to one another until he died of cancer 12 years later in 1957.
Bacall won two Tony Awards, in the musicals Applause and Woman of the Year. She was nominated for an Academy Award in The Mirror Has Two Faces, with Barbra Streisand, in 1997. That same year, at age 72, she was named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful Women.” Also in 1997, she received the Kennedy Center Honors, and in 1999, the American Film Institute voted her one of the 25 most significant female movie stars in history.
