A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
2003 · 11 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 65 VOTES
Overview
In the '40s Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules Furthman writes a script, which follows the book closely. The location of the story is Cuba, but the US Government is against depicting corruption and violence on Cuba, and threatens to withdraw the film's export license. William Faulkner rewrites the script, and relocates the story to Martinique. Hawks's wife, Nancy Slim Gross, happens to see a young model at the cover of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and shows it to her husband. Hawks is a star-maker, who likes to discover and nurture new talents. After a screen test, he chooses the 19-year-old model as the lead actress opposite Humphrey Bogart. She changes her name from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. At the first takes she is so nervous that she shakes.
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00:00:12 that had for so long eluded him.
00:00:39 Writer Ernest Hemingway and director Howard Hawks...
00:01:11 that he was a taciturn, seemingly unemotional man.
00:01:47 Hawks handed the novel over...
00:02:10 by withholding its export license...
00:02:35 who was delighted to be collaborating with the more successful Hemingway.
00:03:04 How long have you been away from home?
00:03:29 and as a young woman earned bit parts on Broadway.
00:03:59 Hawks then began the process of turning Betty Perske into Lauren Bacall.
00:04:29 Faulkner later found a way, while filming, to shoehorn in this scene...
00:05:02 Bogart hadn't paid much attention to her.
00:05:32 chin kept low, eyes gazing up.
00:05:59 He said, "Come on, kid, everything's gonna be all right."
00:06:20 This was highly unusual behavior for Bogart...
00:06:50 There was a real strength of character in him.
00:07:18 The only person that wasn't happy was Howard Hawks.
00:07:44 While Hawks wasn't happy, Bogart's wife Mayo was even less so.
00:08:13 reinventing her past to refashion her as Lauren Bacall, a star.
00:08:42 with his leading lady...
00:09:14 He wanted to divorce Mayo...
00:09:39 and they were great together. They had a great look together.
00:10:13 Always known as a pro, Bogart began showing up ill-prepared.
01:09:04 had at last achieved the stardom...