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  • After her initial role in To Have and Have Not, having used the name Lauren Bacall, she costarred with Bogart, whom she married in 1945, in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948).

    Lauren Bacall. 2009

  • Lackawanna: No. Andy Williams: Lackawanna, does it help you to know that, contrary to rumor, I didn't really dub Lauren Bacall's voice in "To Have and Have Not"?

    Spencer Green: A Very Clich�� Encrusted Christmas Blog 2009

  • Trivia: Williams was performing on radio with his brothers at age 14 when he was asked to dub Lauren Bacall in singing "How Little We Know" in the movie "To Have and Have Not" in 1944.

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News By GARY LYCAN 2010

  • It is a book that I expect has Schadenfreude levels on Wall Street surging to all-time highs, because it details one aspect of what has long been known to people close to the Street: that the greatly respected-and self-respecting-firm of Morgan Stanley & Company, famous for doing "first-class business in a first-class way" (pronounced as if there is a "w" after each vowel or, to paraphrase Lauren Bacall to Bogie, "just puwrse your lips and gloat"), has frequently dealt in an underhanded manner that would have Ivan Boesky enviously gnawing the carpet (a fine 900-knot Persian, natürlich).

    The Return of Gentility? No, It's Scoundrel Time! 1997

  • It is a book that I expect has Schadenfreude levels on Wall Street surging to all-time highs, because it details one aspect of what has long been known to people close to the Street: that the greatly respected-and self-respecting-firm of Morgan Stanley & Company, famous for doing "first-class business in a first-class way" (pronounced as if there is a "w" after each vowel or, to paraphrase Lauren Bacall to Bogie, "just puwrse your lips and gloat"), has frequently dealt in an underhanded manner that would have Ivan Boesky enviously gnawing the carpet (a fine 900-knot Persian, natürlich).

    The Return of Gentility? No, It's Scoundrel Time! 1997

  • So, I think we found something which has taken us a long time with a confrontation and a Bogey, you know, kind of Lauren Bacall kind of relationship, so I think that will work.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2003 2003

  • He was thrilled to live in California and anxious to nt in; he became friendly with many of the town's most influential popular entertainers, such as Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, who were more than happy to welcome him to their ranks.

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • I imitated all the different ways the station plays their call letters and numbers, always the same Lauren Bacall voice, she whispered it seductively in your ear, propositioning you, T.

    Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011

  • His home movies reveal a shy, diminutive Judy Garland and an impossibly handsome, robust Rock Hudson in the same frame, a lighthearted Lauren Bacall posing on deck and a mischievous Natalie Wood mugging for the camera.

    Penelope Andrew: Gay Icons and American Dreams in New Documentary: Making the Boys Penelope Andrew 2011

  • Clicking over to him with my vixen slippers, I looked him over the way Lauren Bacall looked at Bogart in the Big Sleep and said, "You know how to whistle?"

    Shrine Meg Pokrass 2011

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