Lauren Bacall, the sultry actress with the heavy-lidded eyes and husky voice who captured Humphrey Bogart’s heart both on and off the movie screen, died on Tuesday at the age of 89.
“With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm the passing of Lauren Bacall,” the estate of the Bogart family said on a verified Twitter account.
A member of the late The Big Sleep star’s family told gossip website TMZ.com she died of a massive stroke at her home on Tuesday morning.
Bacall was married to Bogart from 1945 until his death in 1957. They had two children.
One of the leading ladies of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Lauren starred in a string of acclaimed movies, including How to Marry a Millionaire, Designing Woman, Key Largo and The Mirror Has Two Faces, after which she married her co-star Humphrey in 1945.
The blonde beauty later went on to date Frank Sinatra before marrying Jason Robards in 1961, with whom she had one son, Sam, before their divorce in 1969.
Lauren, won best actress Tony Awards for “Applause” in 1970, “Woman of the Year” in 1981, received an Honorary Academy Award for her work in 2009 and recently appeared on an episode of Family Guy’.