Lauren Bacall on screen and stage of her training. Bacall's first film appearance was with Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not". The following year she married Bogart and went on to appear with him in "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "Key Largo" (1948). She also starred in comedies such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe, "Designing Woman" in 1957 with Gregory Peck, and "Sex and the Single Girl" in 1964 with Natalie Wood. Bacall also appeared in "Murder on the Orient Express" (1976) and "The Shootist" (1976). In Bacall's later years, she appeared
Lauren Bacall to do so, she replied that "being a widow is not a profession". During the filming of "The African Queen" (1951), Bacall and Bogart became friends with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. She began to mix in non-acting circles, becoming friends with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and the journalist Alistair Cooke. In 1952, she gave campaign speeches for Democratic Presidential contender Adlai Stevenson. Along with other Hollywood figures, Bacall was a staunch opponent of McCarthyism. Bacall had a relationship with Frank Sinatra. During an interview with Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne, Bacall stated that she had ended the romance,