according to the L.A. Jewish Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\nAfter her parents\u2019 divorce, when she was six, she took the second half of her mother\u2019s maiden name, Bacal, later adding an \u201cl.\u201d Her big break was a role, at age 19, in the film \u201cTo Have and Have Not,\u201d where she played opposite Bogart. The two married in 1945.<\/p>\n
Bacall went on to perform in more than 40 films, including \u201cThe Big Sleep\u201d and \u201cHow to Marry a Millionaire.\u201d She also performed on stage, winning Tony Awards for her starring roles in the musicals \u201cApplause\u201d and \u201cWoman of the Year.\u201d Her 1980 autobiography, \u201cLauren Bacall: By Myself,\u201d won a National Book Award.<\/p>\n
According to her\u00a0New York Times obituary<\/a>, Bacall wrote that she felt \u201ctotally Jewish and always would.\u201d However, she wrote that she and Bogart, an Episcopalian, had their two children christened in an Episcopal church in deference to Bogart\u2019s concern that \u201cwith discrimination still rampant in the world, it would give them one less hurdle to jump in life\u2019s Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Times reported that during her romance with Bogart, Bacall asked him if it mattered to him that she was Jewish. His answer, she wrote, was \u201cHell, no \u2014 what mattered to him was me, how I thought, how I felt, what kind of person I was, not my religion, he couldn\u2019t care less \u2014 why did I even ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bogart died in 1957. Bacall later married actor Jason Robards, with whom she had a son.<\/p>\n
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