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 better able to modernise the church. In 2014 Ruby Haswell (Alicya Eyo), Ali's girlfriend, became pregnant, but tried to keep it a secret from Betty due to her reputation as a gossip. In July 2014, Betty departed on a cruise around New Zealand by herself. She was due back in January but extended it to March. Betty returned to Emmerdale in May 2015, and she was furious when Victoria explained that she had stopped reading her emails because she found them boring. Betty announced that she was leaving Emmerdale to move back to Australia but made up with Victoria shortly