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Born Betty Joan Perske, the daughter of Jewish parents in the Bronx, Lauren Bacall would soon became the epitome of New York cool. She was the slim, caustic partner of Humphrey Bogart, whom she married at the age of twenty and starred with in such films as “To Have and Have Not,” “Dark Passage,” “Key…
Sometimes mothers really do know best. We gathered up some of the funniest, sauciest and wisest dating advice from just a few of our favorite moms in pop culture. Take notes! Nora Ephron “Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive too and in touch with feelings, but the only…
Art and memorabilia that belonged to the late Hollywood film star Lauren Bacall sold for $3.6 million during a two-day sale, according to Bonhams auction house. Proceeds from the marathon auction which ended late Wednesday and two bronze sculptures by British artist Henry Moore that were sold earlier at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale…
Getting tired of your windowless closet, better known as a New York apartment? Or maybe you’ve decided to give your roommate — or uninvited guests (mice I’m looking at you) — some space and are on the market for a new home. Well, if you have a spare $26 million to drop on a new…
An art collection amassed by the late movie star Lauren Bacall, including eight sculptures by Henry Moore, will go under the hammer next year in New York, Bonhams auction house said on Friday. Bacall, the husky voiced actress who was married to and appeared with Humphrey Bogart in films such as “The Big Sleep” and…
Before Beyonce, there was Lauren Bacall. The countless odes and elegies to the late actress, who died last week at age 89, have all but confirmed her place as Hollywood Golden Age’s queen of cool. And now, we hear her impeccable style (which a “To Have or Have Not” obsessed tween may or may not…
Actress Lauren Bacall, who died on August 13 at 89, was an early presence in my life. As a pre-teen in 1944 Montreal I saw Bacall (nee Betty Perske) in “To Have and To Hold” never dreaming that she would one day grace my columns in The Forward! My classmates at the Workmen’s Circle School…
For all her onscreen boldness and teaching-Bogie-how-to-whistle bravado, actress Lauren Bacall, who died on August 12 at age 89, spent a good part of her career timorously trying to dodge Hollywood anti-Semitism. Born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, she would later adopt an altered version of her Romanian Jewish mother Natalie Weinstein-Bacal’s name, because…
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