Lauren Bacall Net Worth

Lauren Bacall's Quotes

• I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
• I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.
• I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
• I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, "I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on." And I thought, "That's right, honey, you did not." That was his concept of what a mother should be.
• I would hate now [2005] to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster? I'd prefer not to.

Interesting Facts about Lauren Bacall

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#6) (1995).
2. Ranked #20 in the AFI's top 25 Actress Legends.
3. Ranked #11 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
4. Mother of actor Sam Robards, Stephen H. Bogart and Leslie Bogart.
5. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1997).
6. Bacall lived in the same New York apartment building (The Dakota) as Beatle John Lennon when he was shot and later died on December 8, 1980. When interviewed on the subject in a recent British television program hosted by former model Twiggy, Bacall said she had heard the gunshot but assumed that it was a car tire bursting or a vehicle backfiring.
7. Was crowned "Miss Greenwich Village" in 1942.
8. Shortly after Humphrey Bogart's death, she announced her engagement to Frank Sinatra to the press. Sinatra promptly backed out.
9. Her screen persona was totally based and modeled after Howard Hawks's wife, Slim. She even uses her name in Avontuur op Martinique (1944).
10. Those close to her called her by her real first name, "Betty".
11. Still undiscovered, Bacall volunteered as a hostess at the New York chapter of the Stage Door Canteen, working Monday nights when theaters were closed.
12. Having lost her job as a showroom model and quit acting school for lack of funds, the teenage Bacall found work as a Broadway theater usher. George Jean Nathan voted her the prettiest usher of the 1942 season in the pages of "Esquire".
13. The only child of William Perske and Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, Lauren's father, William Perske, was born in New Jersey to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Lauren's mother, Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. Her father was a medical instrument salesman and her mother was a secretary. When she was six years old, Bacall's parents divorced, after which Lauren rarely saw her father. Her mother modified her own maiden name and adopted the surname Bacal. Lauren added an extra "l" after becoming an actress to avoid the name rhyming with "crackle".
14. Is one of the initial "Rat Pack" with Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Swifty Lazar (aka "Swifty" Lazar) and their close friends.
15. Won a Tony Award for her role as Margo Channing in the Broadway production of "Applause", a musical based on the movie, All About Eve (1950). It was presented by Walter Matthau.
16. With late husband Humphrey Bogart, had a kind of vocal disorder named after her. "Bogart-Bacall syndrome"' (or BBS) is a form of muscle tension dysphonia most common in professional voice users (actors, singers, television/radio presenters, etc.) who habitually use a very low speaking pitch. BBS is more common among women than men and has been blamed on "social pressure on professional women to compete with men in the business arena".
17. Had starred, with her husband Humphrey Bogart, on the syndicated radio program "Bold Venture" (1951-52). Her character's name was Sailor Duval.
18. Actress Kathleen Turner had often been compared to Bacall. When Turner and Bacall met, Turner reportedly introduced herself to Bacall by saying "Hi, I'm the young you.".
19. Her autobiography, "By Myself", won a National Book Award in 1980.
20. Before her death she was the only surviving legend mentioned in a popular phrase from Madonna's 1990 #1 hit song "Vogue".