The 84-year-old Laurene Bacall was married to screen legend Humphrey Bogart until his death in 1957.
Bacall made her screen debut opposite Bogart in the 1944 movie "To Have and Have Not," the first of more than 30 films she starred in.
She is perhaps best known for being a film noir leading lady in such films as The Big Sleep (1946) and Dark Passage (1947), as well as a comedienne, as seen in 1953's How to Marry a Millionaire and 1957's Designing Woman.
Bacall also enjoyed Tony-winning success in the Broadway musicals Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. She starred in films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964) with Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, Harper (1966) with Paul Newman, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner and Janet Leigh, and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery among other stars.Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and a an Academy Award nomination.
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