NEW YORK: Tributes flowed for screen legend Lauren Bacall, days after the iconic star of Hollwyood’s golden age died aged 89.

Bacall, famed for her on and off-screen romance with Humphrey Bogart, died after suffering a stroke at her home at New York’s exclusive Dakota apartments, where fans converged to lay flowers.

Her death came only a day after the death by suicide of another Hollywood great, Robin Williams, 63, which also stunned movie lovers worldwide.

“First Robin, who was a genius, and now Lauren,” said Barbra Streisand, who starred with Bacall in the 1996 film “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” which the singer and actress also directed.

“It was my privilege to have known her, to have acted with her, and to have directed her. And, most of all, to have had her as a wise and loving friend,” she told Entertainment Weekly magazine.

“Thank you, Lauren, for teaching us all how to whistle,” added comedian Seth McFarlane, creator of “Family Guy,” on Twitter. Her vocal appearance on the edgy animated TV series last March was among her final acting credits.

Outside the Dakota apartments, best-known as the place where John Lennon was murdered in 1980, neighbors remembered Bacall fondly.

“It was always fun to see her,” Patti van Dyke told AFP as she walked her dog past the neo-Gothic residence by Central Park.

“She would always remember my name and ask about my career.”

“She had the most beautiful laugh I’ve ever experienced,” added Claire Hogenauer, a lawyer who regularly saw Bacall out and about.

New York-born Bacall electrified Hollywood in her 1944 screen debut “To Have and Have Not,” when she famously met Bogart and “taught him how to whistle.”