Named one of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, Lauren Bacall was a talented actress and certified smoke-show.
The classmate and ex-girlfriend of Kirk Douglas stood tall at 5′ 8.5″ and was trained to speak in a lower register, giving Bacall her signature sultry growl. Bacall’s breakthrough came starring opposite her future husband, Humphrey Bogart (who was 25 years her senior), in To Have and Have Not (1944). She was so nervous during the screen test that she couldn’t stop shaking, so to mitigate the quiver, Bacall pressed her chin to her chest, forcing her to look up at the camera. This became Bacall’s signature expression dubbed “The Look.”
Bacall married Bogart the following year and went on to star in numerous Hollywood films, such as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and How to Marry a Millionaire (with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable).
It’s impossible not to fall in love with the week’s Vintage Vixen, Lauren Bacall, who can say it all with a single, sexy look. (There are too many GIFs in this gallery, but the rizz was just too powerful to resist.)
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