Lauren Bacall-Early life

 

Born Betty Joan Perske in New York City on September 16, 1924. Bacall was the only child of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal and William Perske. Her parents were Jewish immigrants.

 

She is first cousin to Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister of Israel. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she took her mother's last name, Bacall. Bacall no longer saw her father.  She formed a close bond with her mother whom she took with her to California when she became a movie star.