Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her husky voice and sultry looks.

She first emerged as leading lady in the film noir genre, including appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage, as well as a comedian in How to Marry a Millionaire and Designing Woman. Bacall has also worked in the Broadway musical, gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.

In 1999, Bacall was ranked as one of the 25 actresses on the AFI’s 100 Years. 100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award at the inaugural Governors Awards.

Born in New York City, Bacall was the only child of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacall, and William Perske, who worked in sales. Her parents were Jewish immigrants, their families having come from Poland, Romania and Germany. She is first cousin to Shimon Peres, current President and 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 and formed a close bond with her mother, whom she took with her to California when she became a movie star.

Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner were honored with a rare double ceremony for the 2,372nd and 2,373rd stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Leron Gubler, President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce presided over the ceremony. Guests included Dakota Fanning, Bob Daly, Rene Russo, Steven Spielberg, Nate Parker, Tristan Wilds, Gina Prince Blythewood, Gavin Hood, and many others.

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In the past two decades, Lauren Shuler Donner has established herself as one of the most successful and versatile producers in Hollywood. To date, her films have grossed two and a half billion dollars worldwide.

In 2000, Shuler Donner began a new franchise with “X Men”, and followed up in 2003 with “X2”. The film was released by Twentieth Century Fox on May 2nd and broke box office records with an opening weekend total of $86 million dollars nationwide. Not only did the film gross $406 million dollars internationally, it is also the only sequel of 2003 to receive critical acclaim as well. “X3- The Last Stand” was released in May, 2006 and a month later it was on its way to the half billion dollar mark for domestic and international box office.

Shuler Donner’s other films include: “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Hotel for Dogs,’ “Cirque de Freak,” “Mr. Mom,” “Ladyhawke,” “Dave,” “Free Willy,” “You’ve Got Mail,” ” Any Given Sunday,” “Constantine,” “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “Pretty in Pink,” both of which garnered platinum records for their soundtracks. Together the Donners worked on the “Free Willy” trilogy.

Shuler Donner is a dedicated philanthropist who thrives on giving back to the community. She was on the Board of Directors for Hollygrove Children’s Home until it merged with EMQ in 2006. She has been on the Advisory Board of Women in Film, the Advisory Boards of TreePeople and Planned Parenthood and the Executive Committee of the Producer’s Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is serving currently on the Advisory Board of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, the Advisory Board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Board of Directors for the Producers Guild of America.

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered British actors of the 20th century. He married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright.

Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is generally regarded to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier’s AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable

Laurence Trimble was an American silent film actor, writer and director. Trimble began his career as an actor in the 1910 silent Saved by the Flag. He made 100 silent films between 1908 and 1926. Trimble was best known for his films starring his dogs, Jean, the Vitagraph Dog, and later Strongheart.

Trimble was born in Robbinston, Maine, and in 1908 he sold an animal story to a magazine in New York. The magazine referred him to Vitagraph Company to write a story about making films. Trimble became a member of the Vitagraph company and both he and his dog Jean were employed as actors. His dog became Jean the Vitagraph Dog, the first canine to have a leading role in motion pictures.

Jean died in 1916, and Trimble and his wife Jane Murfin found another dog on a trip to Germany. They purchased a German shepherd police dog named Etzel von Oeringen that would become more successful. They changed his name to Strongheart and he became the first major canine film star.