“I went to a sneak preview… I was sort of stunned by it, because you don't realize what you've done. I never knew what was going to happen, but they knew. Warners knew, and Howard knew.”

—  Lauren Bacall

On her role in To Have and Have Not (1944)
Private Screenings interview (2005)

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