LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Lauren Bacall, whose  sultry roles in film noir movies “To Have and Have Not,” “The  Big Sleep” and “Dark Passage” earned her Hollywood immortality,  is to get an honorary Oscar.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture  Arts and Sciences voted late on Thursday to honor Bacall with  an honorary Oscar, along with other Hollywood figures.

The 84-year-old Bacall, who was married to screen legend  Humphrey Bogart until his death in 1957, has never received an  Oscar, although she was nominated for her supporting role in  1996 movie “The Mirror Has Two Faces.”

Bacall made her screen debut opposite Bogart in the 1944  movie “To Have and Have Not,” the first of more than 30 films  she starred in.

The Board of Governors also voted to award honorary Oscars  to producer and director Roger Corman and cinematographer  Gordon Willis, and to give the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial  award to producer and movie executive John Calley.

Corman is a king of low-budget “B movies” who made “It  Conquered the World” (1956), “The Little Shop of Horrors”  (1960) and “The Raven” (1963), which was based on the poem by  American author Edgar Allan Poe.
Willis has been a cinematographer on more than 30 films,  and was nominated for two Oscars.

Calley’s producing credits  include “Postcards from the Edge” (1990) and this year’s  “Angels & Demons.”
The honorary Oscars that Bacall, Corman and Willis will  receive are to honor “extraordinary distinction in lifetime  achievement” or service to the motion picture academy.

The Thalberg Award was created to honor producers who  create “high quality” work, the academy said.
All four will receive their awards on Nov. 14 at an event  in Hollywood.

Organizers of the Oscars created the event to  hand out those statues ahead of the Academy Awards in March and  ease the time crunch for the telecast of the glitzy show.