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 Freeman (actress) from the 1950s through the 1980s including "National Velvet", "Family Affair", "Gunsmoke", and "Bonanza". She made a guest appearance on "Perry Mason" in 1962 as defendant Jennifer Wakely in "The Case of the Fickle Filly". In 1966, Freeman guest starred on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in "The Bat Cave Affair". She appeared four times on the NBC western series "The Virginian". Her last motion picture performance came as "Mrs. Jarvis" in the 1984 horror film, "". In 1994, Freeman appeared as an actress for the last time in an episode of the TV series "Renegade". Joan Freeman (actress) Joan Freeman