Details on Robin Williams' Death; Remembering Lauren Bacall
HOLMES: I want to bring you up-to-date now on the latest on the investigation into the death of the actor and comedian Robin Williams. Police believe Williams committed suicide by hanging. The 63-year-old was found dead in his California home Monday, a belt around his neck, and some cuts on his left wrist. Authorities say no sign of a struggle. It's going to take several weeks, though, for the results of the toxicology test to be determined whether Williams was under the influence of drugs or alcohol when he died. And on Tuesday, the world lost another Hollywood star, the legend screen icon Lauren Bacall dying of an apparent stroke at her home in New York. She was 89 years old. Bacall shot to fame in the 1940s, becoming recognizable from that husky voice of hers, the sultry looks, and the well- chronicled love life as well. Nischelle Turner with more.</s>LAUREN BACALL AS MARIE "SLIM" BROWNING, "TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT": You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.</s>NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With those word in the film "To Have and to Have Not," audience imagination soared, and a screen icon was born. The confident, smoldering expression, the downturned face and upturned eyes, earned Lauren Bacall the nickname "The Look." Ironically, the 19-year-old struck the pose because she felt insecure.</s>BACALL: I mean, that was what started "The Look," was nerves. Was trying to keep my head steady.</s>TURNER: Bacall was more than a movie legend. She was from Hollywood's golden era, and the wife of actor Humphrey Bogart.</s>BACALL (singing): And her tears flowed like wine.</s>TURNER: "The Big Sleep" was among a handful of films they made together, but their love affair was one of Tinsel Town's greatest romances. Bogart died of cancer in 1957, leaving Bacall a widow at 32 with two small children. For a time, she was engaged to family friend and singer Frank Sinatra. When the romance fizzled, Sinatra headed to Las Vegas. Soon, Bacall fell in love again and married actor Jason Robards, with whom she had a son. She blamed his drinking for their divorce.</s>BACALL: I don't even know if he enjoyed it, but he was hooked on it, and he was -- it really almost destroyed him, and fortunately did not.</s>TURNER: Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16th, 1924. Her parents were Jewish immigrants who divorced when she was just six. As a lanky teen, she modeled to earn extra money, taking her mother's maiden name, Bacal, adding a second "L" to make it easier to pronounce. Film director Howard Hawks saw her photograph on a magazine cover. A screen test later, and Hawks changed her name.</s>BACALL: He felt that Lauren Bacall was better-sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me, he wanted to control me.</s>TURNER: Big screen or small, even her fellow actors viewed her as a legend.</s>ADAM ARKIN, ACTOR: John Houston, Charlie Chaplin, and she just knows or has been around everyone that has formed what we know of this business.</s>TURNER: Bacall's film costars read like the who's who of Hollywood, but it was on Broadway where she achieved her most critical acclaim.</s>BACALL: Oh, I loved it, though. That was my original dream anyway, to be on stage.</s>TURNER: She spent nearly 20 years on the stage, starring in "Cactus Flower," "Applause," and "Woman of the Year," earning two Tony Awards. In her later years, her film career saw a renaissance. She starred opposite Barbara Streisand in "The Mirror Has Two Faces," earning her only Oscar nomination. And she was still acting in her 80s in such films as "Dogville," and "Birth," with Nicole Kidman. A diva, a film star, a Broadway jewel, and a classic legend of an era gone by.</s>HOLMES: Nischelle Turner there. And the team at CONNECT THE WORLD would like to hear from you, facebook.com/CNNconnect, have your say there. And you can always tweet me @HolmesCNN. And a quick reminder before we go, coming up on "Amanpour," we're going to be speaking with an official from the Russian Foreign Ministry about the controversy surrounding that convoy full of humanitarian aid, say the Russians. The Ukrainians say we're not sure. Also, of course, there are still Russian troops on the border. Could there be military action ahead? "Amanpour" will look into all of this. That's 7:00 PM in London, 8:00 PM in Berlin, right here on CNN. I'm Michael Holmes, that was CONNECT THE WORLD, thanks for your company today. Isha Sesay is next. END