Dolores Moran the cover of such magazines as "Yank". She was given supporting roles in films, such as "Old Acquaintance" (1943) with Bette Davis. Warner Bros. attempted to increase interest in her, promoting her along with Lauren Bacall as a new screen personality when Bacall was cast alongside Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" (1944). The film made a star of Bacall, but Moran languished, and subsequent films did little to further her career. "The Horn Blows at Midnight" (1945) gave her a leading role with Jack Benny and Alexis Smith, but her film appearances after this were sporadic, and
Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable, Bacall got positive notices for her turn as the witty gold-digger, Schatze Page. "First honors in spreading mirth go to Miss Bacall", wrote Alton Cook in the "New York World-Telegram & Sun". "The most intelligent and predatory of the trio, she takes complete control of every scene with her acid delivery of viciously witty lines." After the success of "How to Marry a Millionaire", she was offered, but declined, with Bogart's support, the coveted invitation from Grauman's Chinese Theatre to press her hand- and footprints in the theatre's cemented forecourt. She felt at the time that "anyone