Lauren Bacall: A Class Act [Gallery]

By Steel Trap on August 13, 2014

Actress Lauren Bacall was known as “The Look” because she was smokin’ hot.

In the wake of the shocking news actor Robin Williams passed after an apparent suicide, another beloved actor, Lauren Bacall, leaves us while dying from more natural causes. A former fashion model in New York, she was just 19 when she was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart in the first of their four films. The special bond between Bacall and her leading man was as apparent onscreen as it was off, and the large disparity in their ages was not without controversy. But their passion for one another could not be denied. In fact, they would have to take 15 minute breaks between shooting to run off to the dressing room together. Fortunately for viewers, this only added to the brilliance of each film. If you have not seen Dark Passage, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Key Largo, you owe it to yourself to do so. Classic Film Noir movies like these are never to be made again, each possesses the right mix of glamour, deceit and innocence which only a 1940s’ Hollywood could produce.