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
Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents or Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes is a 1993 French comedy film directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann and starring Josiane Balasko. She received her second nomination to the César Award for Best Actress for this role. In 1958 open referendum for the adoption of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic, the daily life of Irene, communist activist who was rescued from concentration camps by the Red Army when she was young, and who is married to Bernard