Lauren Bacall

The famous look was nerves. When Lauren Bacall made her first film, To Have and Have Not, in 1944, she was nineteen, and so frightened that her head shook. To steady it, she pressed her chin down toward her chest and looked up at the camera from under her brows. The press called it "The Look," and it made her a star almost overnight, along with a low, husky voice and one line delivered to Humphrey Bogart: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."

She was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City, at about two in the morning, the time Astro-Databank lists from biographical sources. Her Sun is in Virgo, with Mercury, retrograde, also in Virgo, both in the third house, which concerns speech, voice and everyday communication. Virgo is precise, observant and quietly self-critical. A third-house Virgo Sun describes someone whose voice and words are her craft, and Bacall's voice, deliberately lowered under the director Howard Hawks's coaching, became one of the most recognizable in film.

Cancer is her rising sign, and Venus, in Leo, sits in the first house. Venus in Leo gives glamour, warmth and a strong physical presence, and Bacall's first impression on screen was pure star power. Cancer underneath adds protectiveness and a guarded sensitivity.

She grew up in New York, the only child of Jewish immigrant parents who divorced when she was young; her father largely vanished from her life. She took a version of her mother's surname, Bacal, and added a second "l." She worked as a model and an usher, and in 1943 she appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, where Hawks's wife, Slim, spotted her and urged her husband to give her a screen test.

On the set of To Have and Have Not she fell in love with Bogart, who was forty-four and married. They married in 1945 and made The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo together. They had two children, and the marriage lasted until Bogart died of cancer in 1957.

Her Moon is in the final degree of Aries and occupies her tenth house, the most public sector of a chart. An Aries Moon is independent and outspoken, and in the tenth those emotions play out in public. Bacall was famously blunt, a committed liberal who opposed the anti-Communist blacklist in Hollywood in 1947 and who never tolerated fools.

Mars, retrograde in Aquarius, falls in her eighth house of loss and renewal. After Bogart's death she rebuilt her life and career, marrying the actor Jason Robards and turning to Broadway, where she won Tony Awards for Applause and Woman of the Year. She received an Oscar nomination for The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996 and an honorary Oscar in 2009.

She died on August 12, 2014, at eighty-nine. The Virgo voice had been her instrument for seventy years.