Dolores Moran the cover of such magazines as "Yank". She was given supporting roles in films, such as "Old Acquaintance" (1943) with Bette Davis. Warner Bros. attempted to increase interest in her, promoting her along with Lauren Bacall as a new screen personality when Bacall was cast alongside Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" (1944). The film made a star of Bacall, but Moran languished, and subsequent films did little to further her career. "The Horn Blows at Midnight" (1945) gave her a leading role with Jack Benny and Alexis Smith, but her film appearances after this were sporadic, and
Lauren Bacall "Miss Bacall – generates quite a lot of pressure as a sharp-eyed, knows-what-she-wants girl", wrote Bosley Crowther of The New York Times of her performance. And, in 1948, she was in John Huston's melodramatic suspense film "Key Largo" with Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. In the film, according to film critic Jessica Kiang, "Bacall brings an edge of ambivalence and independence to the role that makes her character much more interesting than was written". Bacall turned down scripts she did not find interesting, and thereby earned a reputation for being difficult. Despite this, she further solidified her star status in