Lauren Bacall on screen and stage of her training. Bacall's first film appearance was with Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not". The following year she married Bogart and went on to appear with him in "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "Key Largo" (1948). She also starred in comedies such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe, "Designing Woman" in 1957 with Gregory Peck, and "Sex and the Single Girl" in 1964 with Natalie Wood. Bacall also appeared in "Murder on the Orient Express" (1976) and "The Shootist" (1976). In Bacall's later years, she appeared
Lauren Bacall film scholars consider "Written on the Wind", directed by Douglas Sirk in 1956, to be a landmark work in the melodrama genre. Appearing with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack, Bacall played a career woman whose life is unexpectedly turned around by a family of oil magnates. Bacall wrote in her autobiography that she did not think much of the role, but reviews were favorable. Wrote "Variety", "Bacall registers strongly as a sensible girl swept into the madness of the oil family". While struggling at home with Bogart's battle with esophageal cancer, Bacall starred with Gregory Peck in "Designing