Her voice, her look, her laconic wit: Lauren Bacall, movie star of the forties, was a Hollywood icon. Now the celebrated actress has died at the age of 89 years in New York.

Lauren Bacall, one of the greatest actresses of Hollywood’s golden era is dead. She died in her apartment in New York, said the organization “Humphrey Bogart Estate”. The group that administers the estate of the years with Bacall married actor, it refers to Bacall and Bogart’s son Stephen common. This had confirmed his mother’s death. In “deep sadness, but also with gratitude for her amazing life” would be announced her death, it said. Bacall was 89 years old.

With her smoky voice, a slim figure and distinctive facial features themselves Bacall picked up by many actresses of her time. She starred in more than 30 films, including classics like “The Big Sleep”, “How to Marry a Millionaire” and “Murder on the Orient Express”. Her screen debut in 1944 alongside her future husband Bogart in Howard Hawks’

To Have and Have Not “. In 2009 she was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
Bacall was just 19 when she met “Casablanca” star Bogart. They were married for eleven years together until his death in 1957 of throat cancer. The native New Yorker and Bogart had two children together. With her ​​second husband, actor Jason Robards, they had another son.

After Bogart’s early death Bacall moved from Hollywood back to New York. She was also celebrated in numerous stage appearances on Broadway.

Even with gray hair yet joined the actor in the last years before the camera. With Nicole Kidman, she starred in the thriller “Dogville” in 2003. Lars von Trier brought them in 2005 for “Manderlay” in front of the camera. In Paul Schrader’s “The Walker” (2007), a remake of “A Gigolo”, she plays an elderly lady who appreciates the company of a gay gigolos

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