Shimon Peres branching out into other commodities; his mother was a librarian. Peres had a younger brother, Gershon. He was related the American film star Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske), and they were described as first cousins, but Peres said, "In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family... but I'm not exactly sure what our relation is... It was she who later said that she was my cousin;
1940s in film Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film won nine Academy Awards. 1940s in film Hundreds of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra's masterpiece "It's a Wonderful Life" and Orson Welles's masterpiece "Citizen Kane" were released. The film noir genre was at its height. Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film "Rebecca", and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives"; the film was directed