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Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

Lauren Bacall

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Lauren Bacall
Age: 89 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 16
Died: 2014
Died: August 12
Film Actor
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Singer
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Stage Actor
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Voice Actor
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The Bronx
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Betty Joan Perske
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