The Life Cycle of a Star Image: Lauren Bacall from Ingenue to Hollywood Legend

Early Publicity I: Star Meets Public

“This is a scene from Warner Bros’ newest feature picture: To Have and Have Not, from the novel by Hemingway. It shows famed screen star Humphrey Bogart with a girl named Lauren Bacall. We believe that with the release of this enormously dramatic film, Lauren Bacall becomes one of the most exciting discoveries in the history of motion pictures. (Much of the credit for Miss Bacall’s sensational debut goes to Humphrey Bogart, whose readiness to help a newcomer over the rough spots has made him as popular with his colleagues as with the picture-going public).” 

--- From a press booklet, preserved within the Warner Bros. Archives

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