Lauren Bacall on screen and stage of her training. Bacall's first film appearance was with Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not". The following year she married Bogart and went on to appear with him in "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "Key Largo" (1948). She also starred in comedies such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe, "Designing Woman" in 1957 with Gregory Peck, and "Sex and the Single Girl" in 1964 with Natalie Wood. Bacall also appeared in "Murder on the Orient Express" (1976) and "The Shootist" (1976). In Bacall's later years, she appeared
Lauren Bacall in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996). Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx, New York, the only child of Natalie ("née" Weinstein; 1901–1977), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales. Both her parents were Jewish. According to Bacall, her mother emigrated from Iași, the Kingdom of Romania, through Ellis Island, and her father was born in New Jersey to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a significant center of Jewish life, in present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. Soon after her