RIP Lauren Bacall

image of actress Lauren Bacall at age 82, with flowing white hair and a glint in her eye
Lauren Bacall at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2007. [Malcolm Taylor | Getty Images. Via.]

Actress Lauren Bacall has died at age 89. Her New York Times obituary is here.

Here are some things about Lauren Bacall: She was a great actor. She was fierce and feisty and opinionated and political. She was suspended 12 times by Warner Bros. studio for rejecting scripts while under contract. She had a low voice. She was Jewish. She was a Democrat. She was from the Bronx. She was happily married twice. She had three children.

She wanted to be remembered as herself, as an independent person, in her obituaries.

RIP Ms. Bacall.

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