lauren bacall, my favourite old hollywood actress, who had the sultry voice of a lioness gargling with whiskey, poison and dark chocolate, brought a welcome change to the submissive, exasperated, fretting and breathy feminine characters that were so prevalent in classic films. bacall enjoyed a stellar film career, beginning with a humphrey bogart film in the 1940's, enjoying a career in film until the 1990's. voted one of the most significant female movie stars in history, bacall excelled in films due to her whip-smart intellect, talent and powerful presence, mostly choosing empowered female character roles, although she had a firm grasp on playing a femme fatale, due in part to her husky voice, exquisite looks and unfair lashings of sex-appeal. bacall and bogart met on the set of 'to have and have not' when she was 19-years-old and he was 45, marrying later that year until bogart's death in 1957.
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