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,
Lauren Bacall Chicago theatre, Bacall won the Sarah Siddons Award in 1972, and again in 1984. In 1976, she co-starred with John Wayne in "The Shootist". The two became friends, despite significant political differences between them. They had also worked together in "Blood Alley" (1955). In 1981, Bacall appeared in star vehicle "The Fan". While the film received mixed reviews, her performance got a favorable reception, Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" writing about her character of Sally Ross as "the most fully drawn, the most engaging, and the sexiest character that Miss Bacall has played on the screen since her