Just 19 and in her very first role, the young model came off far more worldly than her years, spawned a catchphrase ("You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow") and won the heart of her much-older costar Humphrey Bogart.
In the film noir based on Raymond Chandler's iconic novel, she and costar Bogart had so much onscreen heat that the studio recut the film to add more scenes of them together.
Continuing their on- and off-screen partnership, Bogie and Bacall starred in a gripping drama in which they must outsmart gangsters during a hurricane.
The actress shares screen time with Doris Day and Kirk Douglas in a tale of a wayward musician.
In this big screen musical, Bacall teamed up with bombshells Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe.
In this romantic comedy, she and Gregory Peck meet and marry on vacation, and then find they have nothing in common when they get back home (until, of course, they do).
Bacall was part of an all-star cast in this splashy film version of the Agatha Christie mystery.
The screen legend teamed up with another legend, John Wayne, for this western.
Who else had the class and gravitas to play Barbra Streisand's mother? Nobody!
The screen legend kept pushing the boundaries by working with Lars von Trier in this unusual film.
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