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 Lou Holland Betty Lou Holland Betty Lou Holland (born December 25, 1926) is an American actress who worked on stage, in television, and in film during the decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. She is best known for her work on Broadway and as a lead in a 1960 television adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster". Betty Lou Holland was born in New York City, she began acting on the stage in the 1940s and appeared on Broadway. She was in "Call Me Mister", "Annie Get Your Gun", and "The Devil's Disciple". In "The Member of the Wedding", the