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
Girls Just Want to Have Fun celebrities such as "EastEnders" actress Nina Wadia, "Coronation Street" actress Kym Marsh, "Life of Riley" actress Caroline Quentin, glamour girl Danielle Lloyd, "X Factor" finalist Lucie Jones, singer Sonique (herself a breast cancer survivor), former "EastEnders" actress Lucy Benjamin, and "Celebrity Big Brother"s Nicola T. Girls Just Want to Have Fun "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a song written by and first recorded in 1979 by American musician Robert Hazard. It is better known as a single by American singer Cyndi Lauper, whose version was released in 1983. It was the first major single released by Lauper as