Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall (, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures". Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in "To Have and Have Not" (1944). She continued
Betty Millard her ninth decade. Betty Millard died on March 6, 2010, at her home in New York City. Her papers were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. "American Quarterly" Vol. 48, No. 1 (Mar., 1996): 1-42. Betty Millard Elizabeth "Betty" Boynton Millard (10 October 1911 – 6 March 2010) was a writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist, and a feminist. She is known for her feminist publication "Woman against Myth", as well as her involvement with the United States Communist Party in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, on October 12, 1911, to