Lauren Bacall, the iconic, husky-voiced Hollywood actress, was remembered at a small family funeral on Tuesday night in Manhattan.
Only close family were at the closed-casket ceremony at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home.
We’re told the ceremony was very small and private with only around 50 guests, and security at the entrance allowed only those on the list to attend. Then a larger group of family and friends gathered at Bacall’s apartment at The Dakota, overlooking Central Park, where she lived from 1961 until her death at age 89 last week.
We’re told that the event was again limited to a small guest list, but Bacall’s longtime friends Anjelica Huston and Michael Douglas were there to pay their respects to the star, and guests “spent time looking at Bacall’s hundreds of old photos, including many glamorous ones of herself, and posters from her movie career around her magnificent apartment.”
Bacall attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York with Michael’s father, Kirk Douglas (above with Bacall in 1950’s “Young Man With a Horn”), now 97.
Bacall later admitted she had “an incredible crush” on Kirk at the time. She helped him break into movies, getting him his role in the 1946 movie “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” Bacall and Douglas then starred together in “Young Man With a Horn” and 1999’s “Diamonds.”