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
Betty Eagleton 1954. After 39 years of marriage, Wally died in 1993 and Betty returned to Beckindale after living in Filey. When Betty arrived in 1994, she soon became known as one of the village gossips. She came into town looking for her old flame Seth Armstrong (Stan Richards). Betty then soon settled in and host a 1940s theme night in The Woolpack Pub at Christmas 1994. Betty then stood up for what she believed in, and even tried to call off Zoe Tate's (Leah Bracknell) lesbian wedding in 1996. In 2000, her ex-boyfriend Reggie arrived in the village. It was transpired