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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)

Bogie and Bacall's first film together

Legend persists that 17-year old Andy Williams dubbed 19-year old Lauren Bacall's singing voice in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Ain’t so. But what's true is that the legendary public and private relationship of Bacall and Bogie began during filming, and their onscreen chemistry is impossible not to see. Bogart is an American ex-pat living in the Vichy-controlled French colony of Martinique in 1940, trying to eke out a living as a fishing boat captain and mind his own business while the war rages outside the movie frame. But thanks to a snappy screenplay by William Faulkner and Jules Forthman, he falls into both love and trouble. Directed by Howard Hawks, this is a sexy, old-fashioned wartime picture with some great dialogue and a ton of style. (Trivia note: This is the one in which Bacall as “Slim” trims Bogie down to size with the classic come-hither line, "You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.")

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