Today in history: 16 September 1924 Lauren Bacall was born on
this date in New York City. She was the only child of Natalie
Weinstein-Bacal, a secretary who later legally changed her
surname to Bacall, and William Perske, who worked in sales.
Bacall's parents were Jewish immigrants, from Poland and
Romania, who emigrated through Ellis Island. She is first cousin
to Shimon Peres, current President and former Prime Minister of
Israel. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she took the
Romanian form of her mother's last name, Bacall. Bacall no
longer saw her father and formed a close bond with her mother,
whom she took with her to California when she became a movie
star. Lauren Bacall first emerged as leading lady in the
Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not (1944) in which she
sang How Little We Know.
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