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 with a picture opening could be represented there, standards had been so lowered" and didn't feel she had yet achieved the status of a major star, and was thereby unworthy of the honor: "I want to feel I've earned my place with the best my business has produced." At the time, Bacall was still under contract to 20th Century Fox. Following "How to Marry a Millionaire", she appeared in yet another CinemaScope comedy directed by Jean Negulesco, "Woman's World" (1954), which failed to match its predecessor's success at the box office. In 1955 a television version of Bogart's breakthrough film,