Happy 86th Birthday to Lauren Bacall!

Lauren Bacall, the big screen icon who burst onto the scene in 1944′s To Have and Have Not opposite Humphrey Bogart and is still making movies 66 years later, turns 86 today!

It was a year ago that Miss Bacall received a well-deserved Honorary Oscar for her remarkable film career in which she starred in three more films (Key Largo, The Big Sleep and Dark Passage) with Bogart, her late husband as well as such well-known films as How to Marry a Millionaire, Designing Woman, Written on the Wind, Young Man With a Horn, Blood Alley, Harper, Murder on the Orient Express, The Shootist, The Fan and 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

More recent films have been The Walker, These Foolish Things, Dogville, Manderlay and Birth.

When Hollywood had few good roles for her in the 60s and early 70s, Miss Bacall turned to the Broadway stage and starred in Goodbye Charlie followed by the smash hit Cactus Flower which ran for two years to sold-out audiences.

Then came her greatest stage triumph of all: Applause, the musical version of All About Eve. It won Bacall the Tony Award and she stayed with the show for nearly five years as it ran on Broadway and in London and a national tour. She returned to Broadway in 1980 in the musical Woman of the Year and won a second Tony Award.

She then triumphed on the London stage in Sweet Bird of Youth. Her most recent Broadway show was a six-month run in the play Waiting in the Wings in 2000.

Miss Bacall is also an accomplished author who won the National Book Award for her autobiography By Myself in 1978. She updated the book a few years ago and it was re-released as By Myself … And Then Some.

It’s a superb read.

Happy birthday to this amazing showbiz legend who is still showing them how it’s done.