Yet another death involving Tinseltown, but this one was due to natural causes.

"Lauren Bacall, the sultry blonde siren who became an overnight star via a memorable film debut at age 19 opposite Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks’ “To Have and Have Not,” died Tuesday at her home of a suspected stroke. She was 89.

The Bogart estate tweeted the news.

Much later in life, she was Oscar-nommed for supporting actress for her role as Barbra Streisand’s mother in 1997’s “The Mirror Has Two Faces.”

Born Betty Joan Perske, “a nice Jewish girl from the Bronx,” she stunned audiences in the forever-after-famous “you know how to whistle” scene in the 1944 romance “To Have and Have Not,” in which she was as flirtatious as possible within the parameters of the Hays Code.

Audiences were impressed; her co-star, the 44-year-old Bogart, even more so. They were soon married and remained devoted to one another for the next 12 years, until Bogart’s death in 1956.

It wasn’t until almost 20 years later that Bacall would emerge from the shadow of being Bogart’s wife/widow and hit her stride, this time onstage, where she scored successes in the comedy “Cactus Flower” and then won two Tonys in musicals “Applause” and, later, “Woman of the Year.”

Her gravel-voiced, sultry persona, however, immediately transformed her into a celebrity. The voice was said to have come from a year shouting into a canyon. Regardless, “the Look,” her slinky, pouty-lipped head-lowered stare, influenced a generation of actresses."

Never cared for her much and her politics, like her husband's Humphrey Bogart's, were decidedly Left. Nevertheless RIP.

She had a long run.

She was generally good in everything she was in. Too bad she was struck down in the prime of her life. Only 89.

This may be an internet hoax.

"On Tuesday (August 12) the actress' reps officially confirmed that Lauren Bacall is not dead. “She joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. She's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said.

Some fans have expressed anger at the fake report saying it was reckless, distressing and hurtful to fans of the much loved actress. Others say this shows her extreme popularity across the globe."

http://en.mediamass.net/people/lauren-bacall/deathhoax.html

I first saw the report of her death on TV, not the internet, and then went to the internet to find the story to post here. So the report may not be true.

She was a really BIG lib. Anyone remember when TBL's Libby used her picture as her avatar?

Rest in peace.

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She was a really BIG lib.

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She was a really BIG lib. Anyone remember when TBL's Libby used her picture as her avatar?

Rest in peace.

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Forgot to mention, did you all know Libby died last year? Cancer. I don't believe she was that old, maybe around 60?

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Forgot to mention, did you all know Libby died last year? Cancer. I don't believe she was that old, maybe around 60?

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Ok, it's official. Dr McCoy has pronounced.

Here's an interesting piece on the Bogart/Bacall involvement with the Hollywood 10. The author believes the two of them were naïve and used but woke up to the truth. Of that I am not so sure. I recall Robert Welch once speaking of tough guy Bogart as one of the "yellowish and reddest" of the Hollywood crowd.

"Bogie and Bacall and Hollywood’s Communists"

http://humanevents.com/2014/08/15/bogie-...ods-communists/