--- title: 21 Gorgeous Photos of Lauren Bacall description: A classic Hollywood star, Bacall was known for her sultry looks and elegant style. As TIME wrote when she first made a name for herself in To Have and Have Not, in 1944, “Lauren Bacall has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle… She has a javelinlike vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness” canonical: https://time.com/3105948/lauren-bacall-dead-photos/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-13T02:40:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:54.728Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 21 Gorgeous Photos of Lauren Bacall og:description: A classic Hollywood star, Bacall was known for her sulty looks and elegant style og:url: https://time.com/3105948/lauren-bacall-dead-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt064b1930b3b9eedf/69869f55169ab0d45627ab51/42-19653887.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: American actress Lauren Bacall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 21 Gorgeous Photos of Lauren Bacall twitter:description: A classic Hollywood star, Bacall was known for her sulty looks and elegant style twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt064b1930b3b9eedf/69869f55169ab0d45627ab51/42-19653887.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 21 Gorgeous Photos of Lauren Bacall by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 13, 2014 2:40 AM UTC  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/CorbisSunset Boulevard/Corbis by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 13, 2014 2:40 AM UTC  circa 1945: American screen star Lauren Bacall wearing a polo neck jumper. (Photo by Scotty Welbourne/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) Scotty Welbourne—Getty Images  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  circa 1945: American screen star Lauren Bacall wearing an ornate beaded necklace. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  1945 --- Original caption: Waist-up publicity portrait of actress Lauren Bacall. She is shown seated, looking backward over her left shoulder. Photo, 1945\. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Bettmann/Corbis  Portrait of Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Bettmann/Corbis  circa 1946: American screen star Lauren Bacall looks up from under her brows in her distinctive manner. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  circa 1945: American screen star Lauren Bacall pictured against a zebra skin background. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  1945 --- Actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  1950: American screen star Lauren Bacall wearing a dark satin suit for her role as Amy North in 'Young Man with a Horn', directed by Michael Curtiz. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  circa 1945: American screen star Lauren Bacall, whose successful film career spans more than fifty years. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) John Kobal Foundation—Getty Images  Publicity photo of American actress Lauren Bacall. ca.1945. Transcendental Graphics—Getty Images  American actress Lauren Bacall (Betty Jane Perske) sitting on a bed with a melancholy look. 1950s Mondadori/Getty Images  Smoking a cigarette, circa 1950. John Engstead—Getty Images  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  LIFE  Orig2 381 Silver Screen Collection—Getty Images  American actress Lauren Bacall, circa 1950\. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) Silver Screen Collection—Getty Images  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard/Corbis  American actress Lauren Bacall --- Image by © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Sunset Boulevard / Corbis ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3105948/lauren-bacall-dead-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3105948/lauren-bacall-dead-photos/"},"headline":"21 Gorgeous Photos of Lauren Bacall","datePublished":"2014-08-13T02:40:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:54.728Z","description":"A classic Hollywood star, Bacall was known for her sultry looks and elegant style. 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