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
You'll Have to Put Him to Sleep with the Marseillaise and Wake Him Up with a Oo-La-La girls that US soldiers have learned "a lot of things in France," and in order to keep men interested they should adopt French mannerisms and learn how to speak French. As the title suggests, American girls should learn La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. The chorus reads: You'll Have to Put Him to Sleep with the Marseillaise and Wake Him Up with a Oo-La-La You'll Have to Put Him to Sleep with the Marseillaise and Wake Him Up with a Oo-La-La is a World War I song written in 1918. Andrew B. Sterling wrote the lyrics, and Harry Von Tilzer