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Lauren Bacall, whose sultry voice and dazzling screen presence made her a star, has died at her home in New York City’s Dakota Building, opposite Central Park. She was 89.
Bacall, born in 1924 and originally named Betty Joan Perske, came to fame playing Marie ‘Slim’ Browning opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not. Further roles in such classic films noir as The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948) – all with Bogart, whom she married in 1945 – ensured her fame.