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 Through her father, she was a relative of Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski), the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and ninth President of Israel. Peres has stated, "In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family... but I'm not exactly sure what our relation is... It was she who later said that she was my cousin; I didn't say that". In 1941, Bacall took lessons at the American