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
Lauren Bacall in the film noir genre with appearances with Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "Key Largo" (1948), and starred in the romantic comedies "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953), with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, as well as "Designing Woman" (1957), with Gregory Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film, "The Shootist" (1976), by Wayne's personal request. Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for "Applause" (1970) and "Woman of the Year" (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance