Lauren Bacall

In 2004, Bacall started appearing in advertisements for the Tuesday Morning discount store franchise. Joan Blondell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6309 Hollywood Boulevard. Lauren Bacall has written two autobiographies, Lauren Bacall By Myself (1978) and Now (1994). She died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Bacall's Broadway stage roles have included Goodbye, Charley in 1959, Cactus Flower in 1965, Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. She married as her third husband, in 1947, the producer Michael Todd, who divorced her in 1950. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). Powell (who became an actor, producer, and director).

Some of her other films include: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Written on the Wind (1956), Harper (1966), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Shootist (1976), and Diamonds (1999). Her second husband, married on September 19, 1936, was the actor, director, and singer Dick Powell; they were divorced on July 14, 1944, and had two children, Ellen Powell and Norman S. She also starred with Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). Barnes (1892-1953); they divorced in 1936. Bacall's first motion picture was To Have and Have Not (1944), in which she appeared with Humphrey Bogart. She was married first in 1932 to the cinematographer George S. She is the mother of two sons, news producer Stephen Bogart and actor Sam Robards, and one daughter Leslie Bogart, who became a nurse. She was widely seen in two films released not long before her death, Grease (1978) and The Champ (1979).

Bacall was married to Humphrey Bogart from 1945 until his death in 1957, and to Jason Robards from 1961 until their divorce in 1969. She also appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Desk Set (1957) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). She made her film debut in 1944. Continuing to work regularly for the rest of her life, Blondell was well received in her later films, and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in The Painted Veil (1951). Born in New York, New York as Betty Joan Perske, Bacall studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942. By the end of the decade she had made nearly 50 films. Lauren Bacall (born September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress. Her stirring rendition of Remember My Forgotten Man in the Busby Berkeley production of Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), in which she co-starred with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, became an anthem for the frustrations of the unemployed and President Herbert Hoover's failed economic policies.

Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as The Public Enemy (1931), and was one half of the gold-digging duo (with Glenda Farrell) in nine films. During the Great Depression, Blondell was one of the highest paid individuals in the United States. The popularity of her films made a great contribution to the studio's profitability. She appeared in more Warner Brothers films than any other actress, and referred to herself as "Warner's workhorse". During the 1930s she would embody the depression era gold-digger, and with her huge eyes, blonde hair and wise cracking personality, became a crowd favourite.

She soon moved to Hollywood where she was placed under contract by Warner Brothers Studios, making her film debut in 1930. She won a local beauty contest and travelled to New York to become an actress. The daughter of travelling showpeople, Blondell had seen much of the world by the time the family settled in Dallas, Texas while she was a teenager. Her younger sister, Gloria Blondell (1910-1986), was also an actress.

Her father, known as Eddie Joan Blondell, was a vaudeville comedian who was one of the original Katzenjammer Kids. She was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. Born into a vaudeville family in New York City, Blondell was a sexy, wisecracking, blonde pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers who appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979) was an American actress.