Bacall to Arms Foray voices Lauren Bacall. The title refers both to Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and actress Lauren Bacall, whose acclaimed film debut was in "To Have and Have Not", based on another Hemingway novel, as well as a play on the term "A Call to Arms". Bob Clampett started his directing career with black-and-white animated shorts for the Looney Tunes series, this phase of his career lasting from 1937 to 1941. In 1941, fellow director Tex Avery departed the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. Clampett replaced Avery as the head of a unit producing films for the Merrie Melodies series, while
Eve (2008 film) Eve (2008 film) Eve is a 2008 American short film written and directed by Natalie Portman, starring Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirlby. The film, Portman's directorial debut, was produced by her production company Handsomecharlie Films and distributed by Relativity Media. Kate (Olivia Thirlby) is a young woman visiting her grandmother (Lauren Bacall) to talk about her mother "Eve" but instead she surprisingly ends up as both chauffeur and chaperone on her grandmother's romantic dinner date with a widower named Joe (Ben Gazzara). "Eve" was shot on location at the Firebird Restaurant in New York City. "Eve" premiered at