Bogie’s “BABY” LAUREN BACALL takes "The BIG SLEEP" at 89.
The legendary silky voiced slinky beauty who was Humphrey Boart’s co-star on and off the screen has passed from a massive stoke at her family home in New York City.
She married Bogart in 1945 and were together until his death in 1957.
The New York born Betty Jane Persky was a former model was brought to Hollywood and put to work by iconic director Howard Hawks who first teamed the budding ingenue with Bogie in “To Have and Have Not” an adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella. Hawks pretty much threw out Papa’s tale of one armed sailor with a vendetta concentrating instead on the budding romance between “Slim” and “Steve” -- which happened right before the camera with Bogart and the then 19 year old Bacall.