Goodbye to Lauren Bacall

When we still hadn´t recovered from the loss of Robin Williams, we had to say goodbye to Lauren Bacall. The news caught us unawares as usually this type of news does but Bacall was 89 years old when she died last week. Lauren Bacall, whose real name was Betty Joan Perske, was one of the icons of Hollywood´s golden age: her career was inextricably linked with the black and white film noir and her image also became a fashion icon.

She worked as a model before starting her acting career and it was then that she caught the attention of the wife of Howard Hawks who hired her for her first film with Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not. She had a characteristic way of looking, a commanding appearance and a husky voice which became her most outstanding features and films such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo contributed to creating this image of Lauren Bacall as a seductress, a sultry woman who was at the same time strong, independent and insolent. As time went by, Bacall focused her career on stage roles and won two Tony Awards for a comedy and a musical. She received only an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Barbra Streisand´s mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces but she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. By saying goodbye to Lauren Bacall we say goodbye to a bit of the history of cinema.

 Some of the scenes of her films have become memorable thanks to Lauren Bacall´s way of saying her lines and those scenes have even turned into iconic moments in film history. Are you capable of finding those lines that have been quoted thousands of times?