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 Barclay with two children by her second marriage, to Leroy Hillman. Her last marriage was to George Sullivan, with whom she remained until his death. The couple eventually settled in Palm Desert, California. Barclay died in Palm Desert, California, on November 22, 2002, aged 88. Joan Barclay Joan Barclay (born Mary Elizabeth Greear, August 31, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s, starring mostly in B-movies and cliffhangers, with her career starting during the silent film era. Barclay was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her family moved to California when she was still a