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
Joan Marsh 1943, "so she won't have to wait a year before remarrying." Marsh made her final film appearance the next year in "Follow the Leader". Marsh later managed a stationery shop, and she died at age 87 in Ojai, California in 2000. Joan Marsh Joan Marsh (born Nancy Ann Rosher, July 10, 1913 – August 10, 2000) was an American child actress in silent films between 1915 and 1921. Later, during the sound era, she resumed her acting career and performed in a variety of films during the 1930s and 1940s. Marsh, born Nancy Ann Rosher, and briefly known as Dorothy