title: The Films Of Lauren Bacall: Her Films and Career
author:  Lawrence J. Quirk 
description: This volume begins with a biography supplemented with many sexy shots of Lauren. After that each film starting with 1944 "To Have and Have Not" through 1982 "Health" is described and critiqued including Lauren's experiences on the set of each one.
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  Lauren
  
  
  Bacall
  
  
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  For my children Stephen, Leslie, Sam and in memory of my mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First and always, to my children, and then to my grandchildren — Bogarts and
  Robards — next and future generations with abiding love for all
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [By Myself](005_part1.htm)
  
  
  [And Then Some](007_part2.htm)
  
  
  [Acknowledgements](010_Acknowledgements.htm)
  
  
  [Copyright](012_copyright.htm)
  
  
  [About the Publisher](About_the_Publisher.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [_By Myself_](003_toc.htm#c005)
  
  
  
  
  
  **A** _ll I had known of_ films was Bette Davis and Leslie Howard. (I was in
  love with him – alas, was never to meet him.) She was my fifteen-year-old idea
  of perfection – fine actress, dramatic bravery, doomed tragedy, sardonic wit –
  all an actress should be, and when I cut school I would sit all day in a movie
  house sobbing through _Dark Victory_ or _Jezebel_ or _T