5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
How tall was Lauren Bacall?
Lauren Bacall is commonly listed at 5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Lauren Bacall’s 5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 5 ft 9 in
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Lauren Bacall beside others
Lauren Bacall is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 0.5 in (62 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 0.5 in (92.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 8.5 in: B. J. Novak, Donald Glover and Laurel Marsden.
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Where this height comes from
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