Lauren Bacall a visit to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1945. It was there that Bacall's press agent, chief of publicity at Warner Bros. Charlie Enfield, asked the 20-year-old Bacall to sit on the piano while U.S. Vice President Harry S. Truman played. After "To Have and Have Not", Bacall was seen opposite Charles Boyer in "Confidential Agent" (1945), which was poorly received by critics. By her own estimation, it could have caused considerable damage to her career, had her performance as the mysterious, acid-tongued Vivian Rutledge in Hawks's film noir "The Big Sleep" (1946), co-starring Bogart,
The Uninvited (1944 film) The Uninvited (1944 film) The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural horror film directed by Lewis Allen, in his feature film debut. It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel "Uneasy Freehold". The film stars Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Donald Crisp, and introduces Gail Russell. Its plot follows an adult brother and sister who purchase a home in Cornwall plagued by paranormal events. Though set in England, "The Uninvited" was filmed at locations in San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona in 1943. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures, who released it theatrically in the United States in February 1944.