The acting community lost another incomparable member in Lauren Bacall on Tuesday. The Hollywood legend died of a massive stroke in her home at the age of 89, a family member told TMZ.
"With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall," the Humphrey Bogart Estate tweeted.
Bacall started her dazzling acting career in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not" after director Howard Hawks's wife discovered her on a 1943 fashion-magazine cover. Hawks cast her in his movie "To Have and Have Not," which co-starred Bacall's future husband Humphrey Bogart.
Bogart and Bacall married the next year and made three more films together including "Key Largo," "The Big Sleep" and "Dark Passage." The famous Hollywood couple (separated in age by 25 years) had two children, Stephen and Leslie, together before Bogart died of throat cancer in 1957.
The Golden Age actress married actor Jason Robards Jr. in 1961. The couple suffered a story marriage (Robards drank heavily), but had one child, Sam, before divorcing in 1969, according to Entertainment Weekly. She moved back to New York where she grew up, and went to work on the stage.
She received two Tony awards in her career. Her first came in 1970 for "Applause" and she earned the second for her role in 1981's "Woman of the Year." She picked up her sole Oscar nomination for the 1996 film "The Mirror Has Two Faces," starring Barbara Streisand and Jeff Bridges.
The Academy Awards celebrated her work in Hollywood's Golden Age with its Honorary Award at the 2010 Oscar ceremony.
She last appeared on screen in 2012's "The Forger," with Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Panettiere and Alfred Molina. She also provided her voice for a 2014 episode of "Family Guy."
