Lauren Bacall’s acting career began with Saturday morning classes at the New York School of the Theatre, followed by, at age fifteen, a year of study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. An introduction to Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland led to a brief modeling career. For Bacall’s second appearance in the magazine’s pages, Vreeland captioned a photo with a mention of the eighteen year old’s acting ambitions. The inside double page spread, and the now famous Red Cross cover shot by photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, caught the attention of Slim Hawks, wife of director Howard Hawks. Upon his wife’s recommendation, Hawks brought Bacall to Hollywood to test for a contract and subsequently signed her. Some six months later, he tested her for the lead in his 1944 film, To Have and Have Not, opposite Humphrey Bogart. The couple went on to co-star in The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and director John Huston’s Key Largo. Married in 1945, they appeared together in the1955 live television presentation of Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest.