Legendary actress Lauren Bacall passed away at the age of 89 on Tuesday. The news was broken by the Bogart Estate’s Twitter account, which is partly managed by her son Stephen Humphrey Bogart.
Bacall rose to fame in the 1940s by starring in To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart. The couple would get married in 1945 and have two children – Stephen Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Bogart – before Humphrey died in 1957. She would later marry Jason Robards in 1961 and have a third child with him in the same year.
During an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition in 2005, Bacall admitted that being so closely connected with her first husband frustrated her.
“The only thing that I am not pleased about is when people only talk about ‘Bogie’ to me as though I had no other life at all,” she said. “When I had, unfortunately, many, many more years without him than I did with him.”
After Humphrey died, she continued to work in cinema well into her late 80s, starring in Designing Woman with Gregory Peck, Murder on the Orient Express and Misery (to name a few) along the way. After her film career began to cool off, she went to Broadway and won a pair of “Best Actress” Tony Awards for “Applause” in 1970 and “Woman of the Year” in 1981.
In 1997 she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces. Although she didn’t win the award, Bacall’s contributions to cinema would be recognized with an honorary Oscar at the 2009 Governors Awards.
