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Lauren Bacall's Greatest Roles

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Aug 13, 2014 12:36 AM
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To Have and Have Not (1944)

Just 19 and in her very first role, the young model came off far more worldly than her years, spawned a catchphrase ("You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow") and won the heart of her much-older costar Humphrey Bogart.


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The Big Sleep (1946)

In the film noir based on Raymond Chandler's iconic novel, she and costar Bogart had so much onscreen heat that the studio recut the film to add more scenes of them together.


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Key Largo (1948)

Continuing their on- and off-screen partnership, Bogie and Bacall starred in a gripping drama in which they must outsmart gangsters during a hurricane.


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Young Man With a Horn (1950)

The actress shares screen time with Doris Day and Kirk Douglas in a tale of a wayward musician.


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20th Century Fox

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

In this big screen musical, Bacall teamed up with bombshells Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe.


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MGM

Designing Woman (1957)

In this romantic comedy, she and Gregory Peck meet and marry on vacation, and then find they have nothing in common when they get back home (until, of course, they do).


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G.W. Films Limited

Murder on the Orient Express (1976)

Bacall was part of an all-star cast in this splashy film version of the Agatha Christie mystery.

 


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Paramount Pictures

The Shootist (1976)

The screen legend teamed up with another legend, John Wayne, for this western.


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TriStar Pictures

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

Who else had the class and gravitas to play Barbra Streisand's mother? Nobody!

 


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Lions Gate Entertainment

Dogville (2003)

The screen legend kept pushing the boundaries by working with Lars von Trier in this unusual film.

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