Mia, I've probably made this comment before on your channel, but i must say how much i enjoy that you've set yourself apart from other reaction channels by reacting to classic black and white movies. Thank you so much for doing these movies.
@@mildredpierce4506 have either of you seen this documentary "The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché", is a good introductory film about her life and the search for her films. She was a Writer/Director/Producer on about 1,000 films {most about 1-6 minutes in length} but only about 60 remain today. The documentary was made by a Canadian film company, which never seems to have been officially released on DVD or video from 1995, probably more of an academic film that the public rarely gets to see czcams.com/video/zli0mysaUeU/video.html There is also the 2019 film "Be Natural: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" which you can rent on CZcams for a day, for like $3 in SD quality. Most of her films are happy ending fable type stories, mixed with a bit of comedy and heart.
I've made this comment before as well. Billy Wilder was set to do the movie "Roman Holiday" in color. But the studio wanted him to film it on a Hollywood sound stage. He basically said "you want to do Rome on a sound stage in Hollywood? Are you stupid or sump'n?" The Hollywood moguls said "okay, but there goes your color budget." Most black and white filmography was done because Hollywood moguls were so cheap they were chintzy. I do love B&W flicks though...
“Lauren Bacall was terrified on the set of her first film. Fortunately, Humphrey Bogart was able to put her at ease with humor and acting tips. Bacall had nervous shakes in her first scenes and quickly learned that keeping her chin down and her eyes up kept her head from trembling. It developed into a trademark sultry look.”
“At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film where she says to him: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
Years later she did marry Jason Robards Jr., and they had one child together (besides the two Lauren Bacall had with Bogie). I believe it was Jason's alcoholic problems that broke up her second marriage. She remained single after that.
Bogey and Bacall were even better together in "The Big Sleep". BTW, Walter Brennen is the only male or female actor to win three Academy Awards in the supporting actor category.
I just discovered this channel today. I'm so excited to see so many of my favorites already done. "The Big Sleep" is a definite winner, and one I hope gets selected for this channel.
Trivia: Humphrey Bogart and his drinking cronies (Frank Sinatra was one of them) were the original rat pack. The name came about when Lauren saw Bogie and his friends returning from sailing in a storm wet and drunk. She said that they looked like a pack of wet rats.
. Originally, the Rat Pack was a group of friends centered around the group’s leader, Humphrey Bogart. The original members included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney, Jerry Lewis and Cesar Romero. Sinatra was in the second Rat Pack with Sammy Davis, Dean Martin Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop
@@okay5045 Jerry Lewis might have been underage to do a lotta drinking with Bogart in the late 40s/early 50s and we all know that that would never have been allowed to happen in Hollywood.
“Lauren Bacall writes in her autobiography that it was in the third week of shooting that friendly banter between her and Humphrey Bogart turned to something more. At the end of shooting one day, "...he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive - he was a bit shy - no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my phone number on the back. I did." Bogart was 44 years old and in an unhappy third marriage. The relationship with Bacall was obvious on the set, and while it sparked the onscreen chemistry for his movie, Howard Hawks was furious. He warned Bacall away and threatened that the relationship could damage her career - that she could end up at Monogram Pictures. (By some accounts, Hawks was jealous and had designs on Bacall himself.) Hawks warned that Bogart would drop Betty after filming was completed, but nothing could be further from the truth. Bogart was divorced and married Bacall in 1945. They made three more films together and remained married until Bogart's death from cancer in January, 1957.”
This is the movie that made me fall in love with older movies, period. The dialogue is so killer I think the entire thing could have been filmed in one room and it still would have been fascinating to watch. Thanks for reacting to this!
One of my Mom's favorite movies. Bogart and Bacall were a team from the beginning. What a wonderful movie. You have to see "The Big Sleep", "Key Largo", and "Dark Passage". To think, this was Bacall's debut.
So glad you picked this one! Lauren Bacall is utterly breath-taking in appearance and performance. And Bogart? He can't keep that smile off his face. Her little shimmy away from the piano and the way she looked into Bogey's eyes as they left the bar - true magic.
Bacall turned major heads being a sultry 18 year old with a deep baritone voice and seductive eyes. This 1st Bogie & Bacall feature is not one to forget! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to your next reaction!
“The most famous scene in the film is undoubtedly the "you know how to whistle" dialog sequence. It was not written by Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman, or William Faulkner, but by Howard Hawks. He wrote the scene as a screen test for Bacall with no real intention that it would necessarily end up in the film. The test was shot with Warner Bros. contract player John Ridgely acting opposite Bacall. The Warners staff, of course, agreed to star Bacall in the film based on the test, and Hawks thought the scene was so strong he asked Faulkner to work it into one of his later drafts of the shooting script.”
Great reaction, Lauren Bacal just sizzles on screen. Bogie was married at the time he met Lauren; he and his wife were known in Hollywood as the battling Bogarts, it was not a happy marriage.
Oh, yes! If you're looking for Couples Chemistry, this is one of the greatest examples ever. For all the times I've seen this, I never tire of watching Bogart and Bacall do their thing here.
One night, perhaps about 30 years ago, I was watching TV, and a group of actors were trying to duplicate the scene where Lauren Bacall and Bogart are in the hotel room, ending with the line "you know how to whistle, Steve, just put your lips together and blow". Several actors tried to do it, but they could not do it as well as the original.
I heard something like this recently on a podcast dedicated to Jack Benny. One of his shows (I think it was a TV not radio show) had Bacall and Bogart as guest stars. As often happens on the Jack Benny show there is a lengthy scene that takes place in his home. They come to visit in his home and everyone seems to try on the line.
So many great movies by Bogart. In A Lonely Place, Dark Passage, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Harder They Fall. Another great movie with Hoagy Carmichael and Lauren Bacall is 1950's Young Man With a Horn. Also starring Doris Day and Kirk Douglas.
I’m going to just recommend Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power great chemistry and incredibly beautiful couple. They made three films together that were all big hits but my favorites was nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards The Razors Edge 1946 and That Wonderful Urge 1948 a comedy which Tierney was not known for in film yet when she was on Broadway that’s what she did comedies. Somerset Maugham the author had Gene Tierney in mind for Isabel when he was writing the screenplay
Mia, in regards to Lauren Bacall singing, she won two Tony awards for best lead actress in a musical. The first was for Applause a musical adaptation of All About Eve, and the second was for Women of the Year, a musical adaptation of the film with the same name.
Lauren Bacall stood out at the time because there was nothing about her that gave off the vibes of the wilting flower in need of saving. Everything about her screamed "strength" and "WOMAN." Not "girl." She had a very deep voice for a leading lady, which gave her this sultry, smoky sound. The looks she gave and her body language gave off a sense of immense confidence and wisdom, like she could handle herself completely and utterly. She was an absolute smoke show. A "bad bitch," to use modern vernacular. I'm fortunate enough to have ended up with a woman possessing many of the same qualities. She makes my heart pound. Just like Bacall did when I watched this movie growing up. 😁
Mia so glad to see you back. This is one my very favorites. Howard Hawks wife Nancy nicknamed Slim saw Lauren Bacall on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine and brought her to Howard's attention.
This is one of my favorite films because of the dialogue and the male/female dynamic, along with _Casablanca, Adam’s Rib, The Thin Man_ and _It Happened One Night._
Bogart would tutor Bacall in the art of acting beginning in The Big Sleep. He would teach her that when she would enter a scene, she would be entering to go somewhere else, from somewhere else, having done something else, with an intent to do something else, and not just entering the scene.
I LOVE that you do your homework on the movies and actors. The guy in the straw hat with the lieutenant was Sheldon Leonard. He played Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls.
I grew up on these masterpieces on television and later in revival art-house theaters, so it always pains me at the ignorance of young people about any cinema made before 1970/1980. Mia has such an open mind and an enthusiasm and the right attitude to engage these classics. No disrespect, no holier-than-thou attitude, no snark, no irrelevant criticisms. You see the entertainment value and the beauty in the works. Subbed.
Thank you for your reaction to one of my favorite on-screen couples, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. There's something about their on-screen chemistry that gave viewers an extra special kick when you knew it was for real off-screen. Indeed, Bogart was the great love of Bacall's life, and she was his.
@Harry Betteridge Yep, that's true. The one that stung me was either old age or wounded and grounded. After it stung me was just barely moving in the grass that hid him from view. I was sitting on the grass, put my arms behind me to lean on them a bit. Then suddenly my wrist felt as though it had caught fire. There in the grass was the honey bee.
Fun little fact about Lauren Bacall's performance she mentioned in at least one interview that she was holding something in most scenes. The reason for that was it was to stop her hands shaking. She was apparently terrified throughout the shooting of the movie, she was so nervous about it all.
We learned what sexual chemistry really meant with Bogie&Bacall!The steam oozed off the screen !They married,and lived happily until his death in 1959!
This is a great anti Nazi adventure story. It is nothing like the Hemingway story but is great nonetheless. Lauren Bacall plays a typical Howard Hawks lady, strong and independent companion for her man. All of his female leads were independent females patterned after his wife who was nicked named, as was Bacall in the movie, Slim. Bogart and Bacall, of course, had great real life and on screen chemistry. Also Walter Brennan was one of my favorite character actors. I love it.
Bacall had a high pitched voice until Hawks made her work with a tape recorder to lower it. She was also shocked to find out she was going to sing. Andy Williams recorded a version of How Little We Know for the film, but they were able to use Bacall's voice instead.
When he sez " get on the phone" he tells them to call the port authority to let them leave on the boat. He tells the two that he is going to pistol whip both of them until they call. " so any way you look at it one of you is going to get whipped for nothing." My favorite part of the movie
If I recall correctly, Hawks thought that Lauren Bacall's voice was too high pitched. He told her to go out into the middle of nowhere, the desert or a forest, and scream as loudly as she could and to keep screaming until she went hoarse and couldn't talk. Then go home, rest and let her vocal cords recover. That is where Lauren Bacall's incredible voice came from0
One way to get chemistry in a movie is to cast leads who fall in love with each other on set. Hoagy Carmichael was a law student, but he gave up a career in that field to become a songwriter and performer. It's fortunate that he did, because he gave us Star Dust, Riverboat Shuffle, Washboard Blues, Rockin' Chair, Georgia on My Mind, Up a Lazy River, New Orleans, The Nearness of You, Heart and Soul, Two Sleepy People, Hong Kong Blues, Skylark, Ole Buttermilk Sky, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening, and a bunch of other songs. Walter Brennan was so good in this, playing a drunk simpleton. How different that is from his other roles, such as the menacing Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine. He won three Oscars for best supporting actor, and was nominated for a fourth.
Much better to have Hoagy Carmichael the musician than Hoagy Carmichael the lawyer. We'll never run out of lawyers. Brennan was great, could do any character role. Loved him in How The West Was Won, a real evil old scoundrel.
Has there been a director with more classics than Howard Hawks? He’s directed comedies (“Bringing Up Baby,” “His Girl Friday”), westerns (“Red River,” Rio Bravo”), film noir (“The Big Sleep,” “To Have and Have Not”), adventures (“Only Angels Have Wings”), gangster epics (“Scarface”) and war dramas (“Sergeant York,” “Air Force”).
It's appropriate that you're following Howard Hawks' "To Have and Have Not" with "What's Up, Doc" as its director, Peter Bogdanovich (RIP), was reviving the Hawks screwball style; there's even a reference to TH&HN with Barbra Streisand constantly calling Ryan O'Neal "Steve," even though his character's name is Howard!
The guy who slaps Bacall is Sheldon Leonard, who had a lot of supporting roles in film playing gangsters. He also played Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life", who in the No-George reality owned Martini's bar. He became big in TV comedies as a producer, being responsible for a number of popular famous TV series, like "Make Room For Daddy" and "The Andy Griffith Show". Sheldon Leonard has been immortalized as the source of the first names of the principal characters in "The Big Bang": Sheldon and Leonard.
This is my favorite Bogart film! Or at least tied with Sierra Madre. Perhaps not so much for the story line, but because of the Bogart/Bacall interaction, and of course Bacall's cool-seductive acting performance.
Hi Mia, I've always loved this film, mainly for Lauren Bacall and of course her interaction with Bogart. You commented on 'The Look', being a byproduct of Bacall's nerves, but also her incredible stillness is the hallmark of a great actor. HC at the piano is such a bonus too. I've watched this with several people previously but nobody has ever tracked my thoughts so closely or been moved in the way you have so I've really enjoyed this! Many similarities with Casablanca of course: Bogie as the moral concience of a world in crisis. Simply wonderful!
Walter Brennan, who played Eddy, was famous for his roles in Westerns and the TV show "The Real McCoys". He was also in a Disney movie. Great character actor.
Mia,I love how much you appreciate the greatness of these actors and filmmakers. The icing on the cake was when you said you love Hoagy Carmichael ! I was pretty young when I discovered his music,a nd from that point on I was on a constant search for anything with his music and lyrics in it . I even when so far as to memorize all the lyrics to 'Budda's Gong" . PS - another great song of his is "Buttermilk Sky".
TLDR: His worst novel became this masterpiece?! 😮 🎬 Hi Mia, I'm late to this party🎉, but I just wanted to thank you. Despite taking History of Film, and continued appreciation of this art, u *always* add something I didn't know, remember (SDSU was a few decades ago 😂), or thought 💭 about. I didn't know the backstory / history of the bet made with Hemingway, nor the business and rights info. I'm also a biz geek 🤓. Amazing story! 🎥 This screenwriting is chef's kiss 💋. I worked as a copywriter for many years, and I'd give up all the special effects of modern film for witty, smart dialogue in an instant. I'm watching this in 2024. Exactly 80 yrs after the release. It *still* holds up!😮 You've inspired me to rewatch the entire movie w these things in mind. , instead of Adulting today. Cool if I blame you 😂? ❤ Thx if u read this novella.❤ It's not well-written. Wanna see if we can turn it into cinematic history?😅 - just me in Palm Springs 🌴 (2 yrs after u posted)
Bogart was a professional actor, and showed the same intense chemistry on demand even with actresses he didn't get along with in real life, like Ingrid Bergmann and Katheryn Hepburn. The one who needed a boost was the neophyte Bacall, and the real-life romance must have helped her act her side of the pairing.
Great review! I always enjoy your film reactions... I recommend checking out Random Harvest (1942) starring Greer Garson and Ronald Colman couples chemistry or another Greer Garson movie of 1942, Mrs. Miniver to see her chemistry with Walter Pidgeon - whom she was often paired with onscreen. :))
@11:54- the guy with the beret (the local Vichy cop/Gestapo) is Dan Seymour, who made appearances in other Bogart movies, including "Key Largo," and "Casablanca" (uncredited). He generally played "the heavy" for obvious reasons !
What's Up Doc is such a good film and an excellent opportunity to pay respects to the recently deceased Peter Bogdanovich. It would be very interesting to compare it with Bringing Up Baby which inspired it.
Someday please watch the awesome team up of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Pat O'Brien in the movie "Angels With Dirty Faces". great old gangster movie.
I'm so happy to find your channel, I LOVE Bogie's films and Bogie and Lauren. My first film starring them was "Dark Passage" but I had no idea they were married until I saw their son's documentary about them on TCM years ago. I credit my father (RIP) and an older cousin for my love for classic films, especially film noir. Their first pairing here was definitely meant to be, I thought she was a perfect foil to him and in "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo".
This is the second film, after Casablanca, that Bogart did about a man trapped in territory controlled by Vichy France. Vichy was technically independent and at war with Germany but also collaborated with Germany. That's one of the tensions you feel in both films.
You are amazing Mia. I am VERY familiar with this movie and Bogie and Bacall. It's good to hear someone else appreciate it. My favorite of their movies!
Bacall had eyes that haunt you deep in the night, ...if you're lucky. Yet, it wasn't just the eyes that allowed her to stand toe-to-toe with Bogart in four films, it was the strength and acting ability, that shined through the "big screen." Some call it "charisma," or "sex-appeal," but essentially it was simply talent. Either way, you could see it in those beautiful "ganders" of hers. With Bacall, ...the eyes have it.
Boogie and Bacall had two children. Stephen named after Steve in this movie and Leslie a girl who was named after Leslie Howard who insisted that Bogie reprise the role that of gangster Duke Mantee that he did originally on Broadway. It was his big break in movies.
I saw you for the first time tonight doing some research on seven samurai then watched you react to this movie. You have such a pleasant and respectful manner in the way you describe the film and your knowledge of lighting, editing and score is really cool. Much luck to you and your channel.
Classic film that started it all with Bogie & Bacall! My understanding is that Howard Hawks's wife-Slim Hawks- discovered LB from a fashion magazine. They named the lead character after Hawk's own wife. Hawks certainly had a type and his wife was a cool lanky blonde very much like Bacall.
Your wonderful, tactile reaction feels just right for this - IMO maybe the very best film from Classical Hollywood - the effect goes beyond the story, the characters, the acting - it's like we're just floating on the surface of a dream - the whole movie feels like one of those extended riffs from Carmichael, this breezy perfection that puts us into a trance
This is the first Humphrey Bogart movie I watched, now I want to watch all of his films along with Lauren!! The guy playing piano and singing , the music was so perfect, I wanna see more of him too.
I once saw a biopic about Bogart which claims that someone present at the shooting of To Have and Have Not remarked that Bogie and Bacall have more of a conversation just looking at each other than they do saying their lines. I also recall comedian Robert Klein interviewing Bacall and assuring her that when this first played and she told Bogart to put his lips together and blow, the whole theater erupted in whistles. And if I might remark on current events, it's great seeing a movie saying that France will never stay conquered in this time when we hope that Ukraine will never stay conquered -- history does not repeat, but it often rhymes.
2:10 Howard Hughes never made a bad business deal, even toward the end of his life when people thought he was going crazy. 12:04 The big cop in the white suit (Dan Seymour) was Abdul in Casablanca. Fun fact: Hoagy Carmichael originally trained as a lawyer with a law degree from Indiana University.
Howard Hawks' wife at the time is the one who pointed out Bacall in a magazine to Hawks. Hawks and his wife called each other "Slim" and "Steve." She was known as Slim, generally. When Peter Bogdanovich made , a quasi-remake of , the Streisand's character called the character of Howard "Steve." Bogdanovich was a big fan of Hawks and wrote a book about Hawks. Bogdanovich had a long-term relationship with Cybill Shepherd, during which, she said, they watched a lot of old movies. When Shepherd got the script for , she told creator Glen Gordon Caron that it was a "Hawksian" comedy. He didn't know what that was (but it was). The scripts for were notoriously extra long because of the overlapping dialogue.
Recommendations: You need to review "Holiday" which is an under the radar, under-rated film with Grant and Hepburn...they filmed that and "Bringing Up Baby" both in 1938. They did 4 films together, the most of any if his leading ladies with Irene Dunne at 3 and Ingrid Bergman at 2. Another frequent pairing was the breathtakingly stunning Gene Tierney and Vincent Price...a must watch is Gene Tierney as the original "Gone Girl" in the 1945 film "Leave Her to Heaven" which Price briefly appears and Tierney was nominated but unfortunately lost to Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce" which is a shame they came out in the same year as Tierney could transform just with her eyes. Loved her and the film "Laura" which was TCM's famed film critic, the late great Robert Osborne, top 10 favorite film of all time! Another top noir film is "Mildred Pierce" from 1945 with Joan Crawford in her Oscar winning role. Also, another noir with Lana Turner in between the veins "Double Idemnity" (which I know you reviewed and had to love that risque, double entendre tennis match dialogue between Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck)...is the 1946 film "The Postman Always Rings Twice." In a similar vein of noir-ish is "A Place in the Sun" from 1951 with a gorgeous 18 yr old Liz Taylor and the hunky Montgomery Clift. (Taylor and Clift did 3 films before he died.) And "The Heiress" with de Havilland and Clift who maybe truly loves the homely, untalented girl for herself or does he want her inheritance which her domineering father has made clear he wouldn't see a dime of in which she wins her second Oscar for in 1949. Oh, and can't forget the iconic "All About Eve" from 1950 which starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Themla Ritter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm with a brief appearance by a yet star, Marilyn Monroe. It has the record for most Oscar nominations with 14 and is the only film in history with 4 female nominations...2 for Best and 2 for Supporting. Snappy dialogue with a deliciously and devilishly clever story. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night." More Bette Davis you should check out like "Now, Voyager" from 1943 with Paul Henreid and Gladys Cooper, the 1940 noir "The Letter," and 1938 "Jezebel" with Henry Fonda and George Brent with whom she also did "Dark Victory" in 1939 which Ronald Reagan made an appearance as did Humphrey Bogart. She did 11 films with Brent. "Charade" from 1963 has an all-star cast with Grant and Audrey Hepburn with Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, and James Coburn...I dare you to figure out the ending... And that goes for another brilliant film from 1973 "The Sting" reuniting the stellar combination of Paul Newman and Robert Redford with the scary Robert Shaw...again, it will fool you at every turn. The poker game scene on the train is hilarious. Also, Audrey Hepburn's début in the romantic drama/comedy filmed on location in beautiful Rome, "Roman Holiday" from 1953 with the gorgeous Gregory Peck in which she won her Oscar. She is a princess on a world tour and just wants to have some fun with people her age and be normal. Peck is a American newspaper man as a correspondent and finds her and discovers her true identity and plans to write an expose piece for a lot of money. Another great movie that is part screwball, comedy, romance, and action is "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, and Peter Faulk. Gorgeous costumes. They are racing from NY to Paris going the long way across Russia. It's hilarious but around 3 hours. Hijinks all the way. It was written and directed by Blake Edwards, who did all the "Pink Panther" movies and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and he had Henry Mancini do the score. And what I consider the original screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" in 1937 with Grant and Dunne and Ralph Bellamy (who would play second fiddle to Grant again in 1940 "His Girl Friday which the rapid fire dialogue and talking over each other was fantastic), which was nominated for a boatload of Oscars and McCarey won for best director. Same dog as "Bringing Up Baby" and the quote of him saying that Kathrine Hepburn's character was "making this up from motion pictures" when she called him "Jerry the Nipper" when they were in jail which is what Irene Dunne called him in the film "The Awful Truth" which came out the previous year...great inside joke for die-hard Grant fans. Both are in my top 10 if not top 5 films of all time. More obscure or less talked about but equally as good is the "5 hankie/tissue" rating of "Penny Serenade" with Grant and Dunne. It's a heartbreaker and Grant got his first Oscar nomination which he should've won at least 1-2 Best Actors. Also "Houseboat" from 1958 with Grant and a younger bombshell Sophia Loren. He is widowed with 3 kids and she is the daughter of a famous Italian composer who is quite controlling that comes to be the nanny of the kids after meeting one who escaped from the concert and she brought him home. Cary falls in love with her and did in real life, asking her to marry him. Lastly, (as I'm sure people have told you about his last film "Father Goose" from 1964 with Leslie Caron), "Operation Petticoat" from 1959 with Grant and Tony Curtis who idolized Grant growing up and obviously imitated Grant's voice in his millionaire persona in your already reviewed "Some Like It Hot," also from 1959. Two lesser Hitchcock films are "The Man Who Knew Too Much" from 1956 with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day who get mixed up with a man who was murdered and passed along his spy info that a top English diplomat will be killed. Their son is also kidnapped. Tom Cruise stole the climax part of this for the early beginning portion of his "Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation" movie. And "Dial M for Murder" from 1954 with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland and other familiar character actors Hitch would use in all of his various films about twice. She is married to a washed up tennis player and is having an affair with an American writer of mysteries. He hires someone to kill her to get her money but it goes awry and he starts to try to pretty successfully cover his tracks while placing blame and framing her. Another must watch Hitchcock film called "Suspicion" from 1941 with Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant where Cary is or isn't a gold-digging murderer in which Fontaine won her Oscar...more of a sympathy likely for her role in "Rebecca" in 1940 like Stewart winning for "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) instead of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939). Next to 1962, 1939 was the hardest year for Oscar competition in Hollywood history as far as quality top iconic films of all time.
Good movie choice.... again... as always! @ 11:15 It's an internal French conflict like in Casablanca when France when fell to the Nazis. The fight between the Free French and Vichy French. @25:10 Totally agree. Like Victor Laszlo in Casablanca telling Rick much the same thing. Two more Bogart & Bacall movies you'll enjoy are "Key Largo" including E.G. Robinson, and "Dark Passage" using some very effective subjective filming angles in there. You'll spot some well known actors in these from It's A Wonderful Life and Citizen Kane. Two more memorable Bogart wartime movies to note, "Action in the North Atlantic" ('43). And "Across the Pacific" ('42) where I'm tempted to tell you of a big blooper and a point of irony about it, but I'd hate to spoil the fun Mia of you spotting them! Of course this is a hint. 😉 One other absolute to-do Bogart movie is "The Maltese Falcon"! I knew you'd love To Have and Have Not. There was a "making of" featured on TCM about the many behind the scenes drama taking place during filming you would enjoy. 😎👍
Hawks's wife, Nancy "Slim" Keith, discovered Bacall whose original name was Betty Perske before Hawks changed it. Try The Big Sleep for another really good Bogie & Bacall film. BTW, overlapping dialogue was a Hawks trademark.
In the Steve Martin film noir spoof "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Rachel Ward does her own version of the "whistle" line: If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles.
As much as I love Bogart, another adaptation of the novel, The Breaking Point (dir. Michael Curtiz of Casablanca), has become one of my favorite noirs.
If you really wanna see something, check out a 1950 movie called "The Breaking Point" with John Garfield (one of the last big movies he did before HUAC ended him), Patricia Neal, and a bunch of others. I've never had a handle on how it happened, but someone somewhere decided to film this same story more as a Hemingway kind of thing than a Howard Hawks kind of thing. Michael Curtiz did it toward the tail end of his golden period, so it's not like it's a cheap ripoff made by a nobody. "Breaking Point" is about a guy with a wife and two little daughters trying to keep his Southern California charter business afloat rather than a sport fisherman fucking around in the Caribbean - seeing two very different Golden Age powerhouses like Hawks and Curtiz take on the same source material is fascinating indeed. "Breaking Point" is more of a social realism film noir kind of deal rather than a Hawksian fever dream - not that there's anything at all wrong with a Hawksian fever dream. There's no attempt to create a Bogie/Bacall thing in "Breaking Point" either, the writers and director of "Breaking Point" are much more story and character focused than movie star focused. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Howard Hawks but I much prefer "Breaking Point" to "To Have and Have Not" - it's definitely worth a look, anyway. The last shot will rip your heart out and hand it to you in a way that Hawks' film never even attempts - again, that's not a slam against Hawks, just an underline of how different the two movies are. Criterion put out a lovely Blu-Ray a few years ago, it should still be around.
Your reaction to this classic was dead on perfect! You nailed everything... writing, acting, dialogue, chemistry. I've watched this at least 15 times in 20 years, and I think it's better than Casablanca, because of Lauren Bacall. And Hogie Carmichael. Sadly, no one from today knows him or his music.
I'm impressed, I think only about 1 in 100,000 people under 50 would know who Hoagy Carmichael was, let alone know anything about his music. So many great movies, continue your wonderful work. Don't even think about these modern 'terminator', zombie, vampire, fantasy movies. Although...I really wouldn't mind seeing an esrly John Wayne western like: "The Searchers" (one of the very best westerns ever made), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "Red River", or "The Horse Soldiers". Please consider these.
I'm so glad you have the insight to appreciate the lighting in a classic and highly professional black and white production. So many others your age don't seem to have any artistic appreciation of that. I started watching another reaction of a different movie when 15 seconds into it the "reactor" said, "Oh, is this going to be in black and white? I don't know how I'm going to feel about that." I stopped watching immediately. She obviously didn't have the taste that you do. Black and white still photography, for example, even in the 21st century is a highly regarded and classic photographic art form. But many in the supposedly brilliant younger generation just don't get it. . .Not so brilliant. Glad you do get it. Great reaction video!
I absolutely love black and white and how directors would use different lighting patterns to convey the light to shadow ratios! So much can be said in black and white! I think in some cases it’s more effective than a movie told in color! But it’s not always something I believed, only until I really began watching classic films did I come to appreciate storytelling in black and white! It’s definitely not for everyone, but it is such a beautiful way of conveying stories! Thank you so much for watching and I am glad you enjoyed this reaction 😁
I have just discovered your site. I love your reviews. I really enjoy you going into the movies a little deeper than most. It is wonderful for you to discover all these old movies. I am going to suggest two for you that are poles apart. The first one is The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The Irish dialogue might be difficult so you might need the closed caption on. It is a very funny movie. It was actually filmed in Ireland. The second movie is Witness for the Prosecution. That stars Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, and Tyrone Powers. This is a sensational movie with the best twist at the end you have ever seen. Keep up the good work!
they setted it on Vichy's Martinique, as Hitler invaded France in 1940, but the original novel where located in the Cuba island, where Hemingway lived and ended his life in a suicide!
Mia, I've probably made this comment before on your channel, but i must say how much i enjoy that you've set yourself apart from other reaction channels by reacting to classic black and white movies. Thank you so much for doing these movies.
As a big fan of old movies of various kinds and specifically film noir, I too enjoy Mia’s choice of movies to react to.
@@mildredpierce4506 have either of you seen this documentary "The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché", is a good introductory film about her life and the search for her films. She was a Writer/Director/Producer on about 1,000 films {most about 1-6 minutes in length} but only about 60 remain today. The documentary was made by a Canadian film company, which never seems to have been officially released on DVD or video from 1995, probably more of an academic film that the public rarely gets to see czcams.com/video/zli0mysaUeU/video.html There is also the 2019 film "Be Natural: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché" which you can rent on CZcams for a day, for like $3 in SD quality. Most of her films are happy ending fable type stories, mixed with a bit of comedy and heart.
I've made this comment before as well. Billy Wilder was set to do the movie "Roman Holiday" in color. But the studio wanted him to film it on a Hollywood sound stage. He basically said "you want to do Rome on a sound stage in Hollywood? Are you stupid or sump'n?" The Hollywood moguls said "okay, but there goes your color budget." Most black and white filmography was done because Hollywood moguls were so cheap they were chintzy. I do love B&W flicks though...
Looks like George Lucas borrowed a lot of Capt Morgan's attitude & smoothness when he built Han Solo.
“Lauren Bacall was terrified on the set of her first film. Fortunately, Humphrey Bogart was able to put her at ease with humor and acting tips. Bacall had nervous shakes in her first scenes and quickly learned that keeping her chin down and her eyes up kept her head from trembling. It developed into a trademark sultry look.”
“At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film where she says to him: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
They stayed married until Bogart's death and Bacall never remarried. I think that showed the power of the connection between them.
Years later she did marry Jason Robards Jr., and they had one child together (besides the two Lauren Bacall had with Bogie). I believe it was Jason's alcoholic problems that broke up her second marriage. She remained single after that.
The actor playing Frenchy (the bar owner) is Marcel Diallo. He was the one who ran the roulette wheel in Casablanca.
I adore these movies that Bogie and Bacall made together. Their chemistry was electrifying.
The chemistry between Bogey and Bacall felt so real because IT WAS REAL!!
"Just put your lips together and... blow!"
Bogey and Bacall were even better together in "The Big Sleep". BTW, Walter Brennen is the only male or female actor to win three Academy Awards in the supporting actor category.
I just discovered this channel today. I'm so excited to see so many of my favorites already done. "The Big Sleep" is a definite winner, and one I hope gets selected for this channel.
Many character/supporting actors have deserved to receive awards throughout the years and never got them.
There are no small parts,only small actor
You can see how Bogart fell for her. Whistling indeed.
Trivia: Humphrey Bogart and his drinking cronies (Frank Sinatra was one of them) were the original rat pack. The name came about when Lauren saw Bogie and his friends returning from sailing in a storm wet and drunk. She said that they looked like a pack of wet rats.
Bogart was the head rat. Sinatra eventually became the leader
. Originally, the Rat Pack was a group of friends centered around the group’s leader, Humphrey Bogart. The original members included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney, Jerry Lewis and Cesar Romero.
Sinatra was in the second Rat Pack with Sammy Davis, Dean Martin Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop
Great job lady ,Lauren was clean and Bogies double breast and was cold
@@okay5045 Jerry Lewis might have been underage to do a lotta drinking with Bogart in the late 40s/early 50s and we all know that that would never have been allowed to happen in Hollywood.
“Lauren Bacall writes in her autobiography that it was in the third week of shooting that friendly banter between her and Humphrey Bogart turned to something more. At the end of shooting one day, "...he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive - he was a bit shy - no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my phone number on the back. I did." Bogart was 44 years old and in an unhappy third marriage. The relationship with Bacall was obvious on the set, and while it sparked the onscreen chemistry for his movie, Howard Hawks was furious. He warned Bacall away and threatened that the relationship could damage her career - that she could end up at Monogram Pictures. (By some accounts, Hawks was jealous and had designs on Bacall himself.) Hawks warned that Bogart would drop Betty after filming was completed, but nothing could be further from the truth. Bogart was divorced and married Bacall in 1945. They made three more films together and remained married until Bogart's death from cancer in January, 1957.”
12 years on a happy marriage is way better than the alternative
This is the movie that made me fall in love with older movies, period. The dialogue is so killer I think the entire thing could have been filmed in one room and it still would have been fascinating to watch. Thanks for reacting to this!
One of my Mom's favorite movies. Bogart and Bacall were a team from the beginning. What a wonderful movie. You have to see "The Big Sleep", "Key Largo", and "Dark Passage". To think, this was Bacall's debut.
And she was only 19. Awesome job on her part.
...and Dead Reckoning.
So glad you picked this one! Lauren Bacall is utterly breath-taking in appearance and performance. And Bogart? He can't keep that smile off his face.
Her little shimmy away from the piano and the way she looked into Bogey's eyes as they left the bar - true magic.
Bacall turned major heads being a sultry 18 year old with a deep baritone voice and seductive eyes. This 1st Bogie & Bacall feature is not one to forget! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to your next reaction!
“The most famous scene in the film is undoubtedly the "you know how to whistle" dialog sequence. It was not written by Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman, or William Faulkner, but by Howard Hawks. He wrote the scene as a screen test for Bacall with no real intention that it would necessarily end up in the film. The test was shot with Warner Bros. contract player John Ridgely acting opposite Bacall. The Warners staff, of course, agreed to star Bacall in the film based on the test, and Hawks thought the scene was so strong he asked Faulkner to work it into one of his later drafts of the shooting script.”
Great reaction, Lauren Bacal just sizzles on screen. Bogie was married at the time he met Lauren; he and his wife were known in Hollywood as the battling Bogarts, it was not a happy marriage.
Oh, yes! If you're looking for Couples Chemistry, this is one of the greatest examples ever. For all the times I've seen this, I never tire of watching Bogart and Bacall do their thing here.
bogie and bacall, such iconic duo 🤩🤗
One night, perhaps about 30 years ago, I was watching TV, and a group of actors were trying to duplicate the scene where Lauren Bacall and Bogart are in the hotel room, ending with the line "you know how to whistle, Steve, just put your lips together and blow". Several actors tried to do it, but they could not do it as well as the original.
I heard something like this recently on a podcast dedicated to Jack Benny. One of his shows (I think it was a TV not radio show) had Bacall and Bogart as guest stars. As often happens on the Jack Benny show there is a lengthy scene that takes place in his home. They come to visit in his home and everyone seems to try on the line.
So many great movies by Bogart. In A Lonely Place, Dark Passage, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Harder They Fall. Another great movie with Hoagy Carmichael and Lauren Bacall is 1950's Young Man With a Horn. Also starring Doris Day and Kirk Douglas.
The Caine Mutiny Trial, don't forget that one. Bogart is incredible in that (excellent) movie.
I’m going to just recommend Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power great chemistry and incredibly beautiful couple.
They made three films together that were all big hits but my favorites was nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards The Razors Edge 1946 and That Wonderful Urge 1948 a comedy which Tierney was not known for in film yet when she was on Broadway that’s what she did comedies.
Somerset Maugham the author had Gene Tierney in mind for Isabel when he was writing the screenplay
Mia, in regards to Lauren Bacall singing, she won two Tony awards for best lead actress in a musical. The first was for Applause a musical adaptation of All About Eve, and the second was for Women of the Year, a musical adaptation of the film with the same name.
Lauren Bacall stood out at the time because there was nothing about her that gave off the vibes of the wilting flower in need of saving. Everything about her screamed "strength" and "WOMAN." Not "girl." She had a very deep voice for a leading lady, which gave her this sultry, smoky sound. The looks she gave and her body language gave off a sense of immense confidence and wisdom, like she could handle herself completely and utterly. She was an absolute smoke show. A "bad bitch," to use modern vernacular.
I'm fortunate enough to have ended up with a woman possessing many of the same qualities. She makes my heart pound. Just like Bacall did when I watched this movie growing up. 😁
It feels like a unofficial sequel to Casablanca
Rick finds another love of his life!
Mia so glad to see you back. This is one my very favorites. Howard Hawks wife Nancy nicknamed Slim saw Lauren Bacall on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine and brought her to Howard's attention.
This is one of my favorite films because of the dialogue and the male/female dynamic, along with _Casablanca, Adam’s Rib, The Thin Man_ and _It Happened One Night._
Adam' Rib is delightful.
Also, it's very surprising and joyful to see a young person (I'm 56yo, but also an "old movie" geek) appreciate a B & W movie!
Bogart would tutor Bacall in the art of acting beginning in The Big Sleep. He would teach her that when she would enter a scene, she would be entering to go somewhere else, from somewhere else, having done something else, with an intent to do something else, and not just entering the scene.
I LOVE that you do your homework on the movies and actors.
The guy in the straw hat with the lieutenant was Sheldon Leonard. He played Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls.
And he played Nick in It's A Wonderful Life
Bogart and Bacall fell in love making this picture and we got to watch it unfold!
I grew up on these masterpieces on television and later in revival art-house theaters, so it always pains me at the ignorance of young people about any cinema made before 1970/1980. Mia has such an open mind and an enthusiasm and the right attitude to engage these classics. No disrespect, no holier-than-thou attitude, no snark, no irrelevant criticisms. You see the entertainment value and the beauty in the works. Subbed.
Thanks, Mia, you're hitting on all cylinders!! The incomparable Walter Brennan was the first actor to win three Academy Awards.
Thank you for your reaction to one of my favorite on-screen couples, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. There's something about their on-screen chemistry that gave viewers an extra special kick when you knew it was for real off-screen. Indeed, Bogart was the great love of Bacall's life, and she was his.
" Was you ever stung by a dead bee? " Yep, in the left wrist.
@Harry Betteridge Yep, that's true. The one that stung me was either old age or wounded and grounded. After it stung me was just barely moving in the grass that hid him from view. I was sitting on the grass, put my arms behind me to lean on them a bit. Then suddenly my wrist felt as though it had caught fire. There in the grass was the honey bee.
Fun little fact about Lauren Bacall's performance she mentioned in at least one interview that she was holding something in most scenes. The reason for that was it was to stop her hands shaking. She was apparently terrified throughout the shooting of the movie, she was so nervous about it all.
We learned what sexual chemistry really meant with Bogie&Bacall!The steam oozed off the screen !They married,and lived happily until his death in 1959!
This is a great anti Nazi adventure story. It is nothing like the Hemingway story but is great nonetheless. Lauren Bacall plays a typical Howard Hawks lady, strong and independent companion for her man. All of his female leads were independent females patterned after his wife who was nicked named, as was Bacall in the movie, Slim. Bogart and Bacall, of course, had great real life and on screen chemistry. Also Walter Brennan was one of my favorite character actors. I love it.
I believe it is "To Have and Have Not".
Bacall had a high pitched voice until Hawks made her work with a tape recorder to lower it. She was also shocked to find out she was going to sing. Andy Williams recorded a version of How Little We Know for the film, but they were able to use Bacall's voice instead.
When he sez " get on the phone" he tells them to call the port authority to let them leave on the boat.
He tells the two that he is going to pistol whip both of them until they call.
" so any way you look at it one of you is going to get whipped for nothing."
My favorite part of the movie
If I recall correctly, Hawks thought that Lauren Bacall's voice was too high pitched. He told her to go out into the middle of nowhere, the desert or a forest, and scream as loudly as she could and to keep screaming until she went hoarse and couldn't talk. Then go home, rest and let her vocal cords recover. That is where Lauren Bacall's incredible voice came from0
One way to get chemistry in a movie is to cast leads who fall in love with each other on set.
Hoagy Carmichael was a law student, but he gave up a career in that field to become a songwriter and performer. It's fortunate that he did, because he gave us Star Dust, Riverboat Shuffle, Washboard Blues, Rockin' Chair, Georgia on My Mind, Up a Lazy River, New Orleans, The Nearness of You, Heart and Soul, Two Sleepy People, Hong Kong Blues, Skylark, Ole Buttermilk Sky, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening, and a bunch of other songs.
Walter Brennan was so good in this, playing a drunk simpleton. How different that is from his other roles, such as the menacing Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine. He won three Oscars for best supporting actor, and was nominated for a fourth.
Much better to have Hoagy Carmichael the musician than Hoagy Carmichael the lawyer. We'll never run out of lawyers.
Brennan was great, could do any character role. Loved him in How The West Was Won, a real evil old scoundrel.
Has there been a director with more classics than Howard Hawks? He’s directed comedies (“Bringing Up Baby,” “His Girl Friday”), westerns (“Red River,” Rio Bravo”), film noir (“The Big Sleep,” “To Have and Have Not”), adventures (“Only Angels Have Wings”), gangster epics (“Scarface”) and war dramas (“Sergeant York,” “Air Force”).
Billy Wilder, for one. And Akira Kurosawa, all the action samurai films, Stray Dog, Ikiru, Rashômon.
It's appropriate that you're following Howard Hawks' "To Have and Have Not" with "What's Up, Doc" as its director, Peter Bogdanovich (RIP), was reviving the Hawks screwball style; there's even a reference to TH&HN with Barbra Streisand constantly calling Ryan O'Neal "Steve," even though his character's name is Howard!
The guy who slaps Bacall is Sheldon Leonard, who had a lot of supporting roles in film playing gangsters.
He also played Nick in "It's A Wonderful Life", who in the No-George reality owned Martini's bar.
He became big in TV comedies as a producer, being responsible for a number of popular famous TV series, like "Make Room For Daddy" and "The Andy Griffith Show".
Sheldon Leonard has been immortalized as the source of the first names of the principal characters in "The Big Bang": Sheldon and Leonard.
I would certainly recommend..
The Big Sleep. 🙂
The flag comment also referenced Vichy: French who collaborated with the Nazis.
This is my favorite Bogart film! Or at least tied with Sierra Madre. Perhaps not so much for the story line, but because of the Bogart/Bacall interaction, and of course Bacall's cool-seductive acting performance.
Hi Mia, I've always loved this film, mainly for Lauren Bacall and of course her interaction with Bogart. You commented on 'The Look', being a byproduct of Bacall's nerves, but also her incredible stillness is the hallmark of a great actor. HC at the piano is such a bonus too. I've watched this with several people previously but nobody has ever tracked my thoughts so closely or been moved in the way you have so I've really enjoyed this!
Many similarities with Casablanca of course: Bogie as the moral concience of a world in crisis. Simply wonderful!
Walter Brennan, who played Eddy, was famous for his roles in Westerns and the TV show "The Real McCoys". He was also in a Disney movie. Great character actor.
“You know how to whistle, don’t you?
Just put your lips together and … blow”.
One of the most classic of all movie lines!
Mia,I love how much you appreciate the greatness of these actors and filmmakers. The icing on the cake was when you said you love Hoagy Carmichael ! I was pretty young when I discovered his music,a nd from that point on I was on a constant search for anything with his music and lyrics in it . I even when so far as to memorize all the lyrics to 'Budda's Gong" . PS - another great song of his is "Buttermilk Sky".
TLDR: His worst novel became this masterpiece?! 😮
🎬 Hi Mia,
I'm late to this party🎉, but I just wanted to thank you. Despite taking History of Film, and continued appreciation of this art, u *always* add something I didn't know, remember (SDSU was a few decades ago 😂), or thought 💭 about.
I didn't know the backstory / history of the bet made with Hemingway, nor the business and rights info. I'm also a biz geek 🤓. Amazing story! 🎥 This screenwriting is chef's kiss 💋.
I worked as a copywriter for many years, and I'd give up all the special effects of modern film for witty, smart dialogue in an instant. I'm watching this in 2024. Exactly 80 yrs after the release. It *still* holds up!😮
You've inspired me to rewatch the entire movie w these things in mind. , instead of Adulting today. Cool if I blame you 😂? ❤ Thx if u read this novella.❤ It's not well-written. Wanna see if we can turn it into cinematic history?😅 - just me in Palm Springs 🌴 (2 yrs after u posted)
To have and have Not is one of my fav Bacall and Bogart movies.
Bogart was a professional actor, and showed the same intense chemistry on demand even with actresses he didn't get along with in real life, like Ingrid Bergmann and Katheryn Hepburn. The one who needed a boost was the neophyte Bacall, and the real-life romance must have helped her act her side of the pairing.
Did you mean Audrey Hepburn? Because Bogart and Bacall and Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were famously close friends.
@@Hexon66 Oops! Thank you.
Great review! I always enjoy your film reactions... I recommend checking out Random Harvest (1942) starring Greer Garson and Ronald Colman couples chemistry or another Greer Garson movie of 1942, Mrs. Miniver to see her chemistry with Walter Pidgeon - whom she was often paired with onscreen. :))
You should see them play opposite each other in "The Big Sleep ".
@11:54- the guy with the beret (the local Vichy cop/Gestapo) is Dan Seymour, who made appearances in other Bogart movies, including "Key Largo," and "Casablanca" (uncredited). He generally played "the heavy" for obvious reasons !
True, their chemistry was fantastic. All movies they made together, they just were meant to be, the camera loved. I LOVE What's Up, Doc? .
What's Up Doc is such a good film and an excellent opportunity to pay respects to the recently deceased Peter Bogdanovich. It would be very interesting to compare it with Bringing Up Baby which inspired it.
Someday please watch the awesome team up of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Pat O'Brien in the movie "Angels With Dirty Faces". great old gangster movie.
Thank you! This is the first time that I have smiled all the way through To Have & Have Not.
I'm so happy to find your channel, I LOVE Bogie's films and Bogie and Lauren. My first film starring them was "Dark Passage" but I had no idea they were married until I saw their son's documentary about them on TCM years ago. I credit my father (RIP) and an older cousin for my love for classic films, especially film noir. Their first pairing here was definitely meant to be, I thought she was a perfect foil to him and in "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo".
This is the second film, after Casablanca, that Bogart did about a man trapped in territory controlled by Vichy France. Vichy was technically independent and at war with Germany but also collaborated with Germany. That's one of the tensions you feel in both films.
You are amazing Mia. I am VERY familiar with this movie and Bogie and Bacall. It's good to hear someone else appreciate it. My favorite of their movies!
Bacall had eyes that haunt you deep in the night, ...if you're lucky. Yet, it wasn't just the eyes that allowed her to stand toe-to-toe with Bogart in four films, it was the strength and acting ability, that shined through the "big screen." Some call it "charisma," or "sex-appeal," but essentially it was simply talent. Either way, you could see it in those beautiful "ganders" of hers. With Bacall, ...the eyes have it.
Boogie and Bacall had two children. Stephen named after Steve in this movie and Leslie a girl who was named after Leslie Howard who insisted that Bogie reprise the role that of gangster Duke Mantee that he did originally on Broadway. It was his big break in movies.
I saw you for the first time tonight doing some research on seven samurai then watched you react to this movie. You have such a pleasant and respectful manner in the way you describe the film and your knowledge of lighting, editing and score is really cool. Much luck to you and your channel.
Oh, how lovely! Thank you so much for watching 😁 and I wish you well on your research of Seven Samurai!!
Classic film that started it all with Bogie & Bacall! My understanding is that Howard Hawks's wife-Slim Hawks- discovered LB from a fashion magazine. They named the lead character after Hawk's own wife. Hawks certainly had a type and his wife was a cool lanky blonde very much like Bacall.
Your wonderful, tactile reaction feels just right for this - IMO maybe the very best film from Classical Hollywood - the effect goes beyond the story, the characters, the acting - it's like we're just floating on the surface of a dream - the whole movie feels like one of those extended riffs from Carmichael, this breezy perfection that puts us into a trance
This is the first Humphrey Bogart movie I watched, now I want to watch all of his films along with Lauren!! The guy playing piano and singing , the music was so perfect, I wanna see more of him too.
I love this movie and The Big Sleep. I have seen them both at least 10 times.
I once saw a biopic about Bogart which claims that someone present at the shooting of To Have and Have Not remarked that Bogie and Bacall have more of a conversation just looking at each other than they do saying their lines. I also recall comedian Robert Klein interviewing Bacall and assuring her that when this first played and she told Bogart to put his lips together and blow, the whole theater erupted in whistles. And if I might remark on current events, it's great seeing a movie saying that France will never stay conquered in this time when we hope that Ukraine will never stay conquered -- history does not repeat, but it often rhymes.
2:10 Howard Hughes never made a bad business deal, even toward the end of his life when people thought he was going crazy. 12:04 The big cop in the white suit (Dan Seymour) was Abdul in Casablanca. Fun fact: Hoagy Carmichael originally trained as a lawyer with a law degree from Indiana University.
Howard Hawks' wife at the time is the one who pointed out Bacall in a magazine to Hawks. Hawks and his wife called each other "Slim" and "Steve." She was known as Slim, generally. When Peter Bogdanovich made , a quasi-remake of , the Streisand's character called the character of Howard "Steve." Bogdanovich was a big fan of Hawks and wrote a book about Hawks. Bogdanovich had a long-term relationship with Cybill Shepherd, during which, she said, they watched a lot of old movies. When Shepherd got the script for , she told creator Glen Gordon Caron that it was a "Hawksian" comedy. He didn't know what that was (but it was). The scripts for were notoriously extra long because of the overlapping dialogue.
Recommendations: You need to review "Holiday" which is an under the radar, under-rated film with Grant and Hepburn...they filmed that and "Bringing Up Baby" both in 1938. They did 4 films together, the most of any if his leading ladies with Irene Dunne at 3 and Ingrid Bergman at 2.
Another frequent pairing was the breathtakingly stunning Gene Tierney and Vincent Price...a must watch is Gene Tierney as the original "Gone Girl" in the 1945 film "Leave Her to Heaven" which Price briefly appears and Tierney was nominated but unfortunately lost to Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce" which is a shame they came out in the same year as Tierney could transform just with her eyes. Loved her and the film "Laura" which was TCM's famed film critic, the late great Robert Osborne, top 10 favorite film of all time!
Another top noir film is "Mildred Pierce" from 1945 with Joan Crawford in her Oscar winning role.
Also, another noir with Lana Turner in between the veins "Double Idemnity" (which I know you reviewed and had to love that risque, double entendre tennis match dialogue between Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck)...is the 1946 film "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
In a similar vein of noir-ish is "A Place in the Sun" from 1951 with a gorgeous 18 yr old Liz Taylor and the hunky Montgomery Clift. (Taylor and Clift did 3 films before he died.)
And "The Heiress" with de Havilland and Clift who maybe truly loves the homely, untalented girl for herself or does he want her inheritance which her domineering father has made clear he wouldn't see a dime of in which she wins her second Oscar for in 1949.
Oh, and can't forget the iconic "All About Eve" from 1950 which starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Themla Ritter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm with a brief appearance by a yet star, Marilyn Monroe. It has the record for most Oscar nominations with 14 and is the only film in history with 4 female nominations...2 for Best and 2 for Supporting. Snappy dialogue with a deliciously and devilishly clever story. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
More Bette Davis you should check out like "Now, Voyager" from 1943 with Paul Henreid and Gladys Cooper, the 1940 noir "The Letter," and 1938 "Jezebel" with Henry Fonda and George Brent with whom she also did "Dark Victory" in 1939 which Ronald Reagan made an appearance as did Humphrey Bogart. She did 11 films with Brent.
"Charade" from 1963 has an all-star cast with Grant and Audrey Hepburn with Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, and James Coburn...I dare you to figure out the ending...
And that goes for another brilliant film from 1973 "The Sting" reuniting the stellar combination of Paul Newman and Robert Redford with the scary Robert Shaw...again, it will fool you at every turn. The poker game scene on the train is hilarious.
Also, Audrey Hepburn's début in the romantic drama/comedy filmed on location in beautiful Rome, "Roman Holiday" from 1953 with the gorgeous Gregory Peck in which she won her Oscar. She is a princess on a world tour and just wants to have some fun with people her age and be normal. Peck is a American newspaper man as a correspondent and finds her and discovers her true identity and plans to write an expose piece for a lot of money.
Another great movie that is part screwball, comedy, romance, and action is "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, and Peter Faulk. Gorgeous costumes. They are racing from NY to Paris going the long way across Russia. It's hilarious but around 3 hours. Hijinks all the way. It was written and directed by Blake Edwards, who did all the "Pink Panther" movies and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and he had Henry Mancini do the score.
And what I consider the original screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" in 1937 with Grant and Dunne and Ralph Bellamy (who would play second fiddle to Grant again in 1940 "His Girl Friday which the rapid fire dialogue and talking over each other was fantastic), which was nominated for a boatload of Oscars and McCarey won for best director. Same dog as "Bringing Up Baby" and the quote of him saying that Kathrine Hepburn's character was "making this up from motion pictures" when she called him "Jerry the Nipper" when they were in jail which is what Irene Dunne called him in the film "The Awful Truth" which came out the previous year...great inside joke for die-hard Grant fans. Both are in my top 10 if not top 5 films of all time.
More obscure or less talked about but equally as good is the "5 hankie/tissue" rating of "Penny Serenade" with Grant and Dunne. It's a heartbreaker and Grant got his first Oscar nomination which he should've won at least 1-2 Best Actors.
Also "Houseboat" from 1958 with Grant and a younger bombshell Sophia Loren. He is widowed with 3 kids and she is the daughter of a famous Italian composer who is quite controlling that comes to be the nanny of the kids after meeting one who escaped from the concert and she brought him home. Cary falls in love with her and did in real life, asking her to marry him.
Lastly, (as I'm sure people have told you about his last film "Father Goose" from 1964 with Leslie Caron), "Operation Petticoat" from 1959 with Grant and Tony Curtis who idolized Grant growing up and obviously imitated Grant's voice in his millionaire persona in your already reviewed "Some Like It Hot," also from 1959.
Two lesser Hitchcock films are "The Man Who Knew Too Much" from 1956 with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day who get mixed up with a man who was murdered and passed along his spy info that a top English diplomat will be killed. Their son is also kidnapped. Tom Cruise stole the climax part of this for the early beginning portion of his "Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation" movie.
And "Dial M for Murder" from 1954 with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland and other familiar character actors Hitch would use in all of his various films about twice. She is married to a washed up tennis player and is having an affair with an American writer of mysteries. He hires someone to kill her to get her money but it goes awry and he starts to try to pretty successfully cover his tracks while placing blame and framing her.
Another must watch Hitchcock film called "Suspicion" from 1941 with Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant where Cary is or isn't a gold-digging murderer in which Fontaine won her Oscar...more of a sympathy likely for her role in "Rebecca" in 1940 like Stewart winning for "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) instead of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939). Next to 1962, 1939 was the hardest year for Oscar competition in Hollywood history as far as quality top iconic films of all time.
FINALLY someone who fell in love with this movie as hard as me
Overlapping dialogue is the hallmark of a Howard Hawks movie.
In the 1970s, Robert Altman was sometimes credited with this innovation, but he was always clear that he'd learned from Hawks.
You can just see them falling in love on the screen
Lauren played Paul's agent in "Misery" - small part but most overlook it
The Big Sleep and Dark Passage are two other pairings of this duo, love this genre
The dialog around the kiss: it’s even better when you kiss back… was repeated in Rio Bravo between John Wayne and Angie Dickinson.
Good movie choice.... again... as always!
@ 11:15 It's an internal French conflict like in Casablanca when France when fell to the Nazis. The fight between the Free French and Vichy French.
@25:10 Totally agree. Like Victor Laszlo in Casablanca telling Rick much the same thing.
Two more Bogart & Bacall movies you'll enjoy are "Key Largo" including E.G. Robinson, and "Dark Passage" using some very effective subjective filming angles in there. You'll spot some well known actors in these from It's A Wonderful Life and Citizen Kane. Two more memorable Bogart wartime movies to note, "Action in the North Atlantic" ('43). And "Across the Pacific" ('42) where I'm tempted to tell you of a big blooper and a point of irony about it, but I'd hate to spoil the fun Mia of you spotting them! Of course this is a hint. 😉 One other absolute to-do Bogart movie is "The Maltese Falcon"!
I knew you'd love To Have and Have Not. There was a "making of" featured on TCM about the many behind the scenes drama taking place during filming you would enjoy. 😎👍
Wow. I can't believe there aren't more movie reaction channels with videos featuring this great film. Good for you, Mia, for being a trailblazer.
Hawks's wife, Nancy "Slim" Keith, discovered Bacall whose original name was Betty Perske before Hawks changed it. Try The Big Sleep for another really good Bogie & Bacall film. BTW, overlapping dialogue was a Hawks trademark.
Much as I love black and white movies, What's Up Doc? is so entertaining, and Madeline Kahn is a scream! Can't wait!
"Casablanca in the Caribbean." Great flick. Love your reactions.
They are such a sweet couple! I will once again pitch Dark Passage. It is a lesser-know Boggart Bacall but they have some really nice moments.
Mia, just wanted to mention that Warner Bros. is just an abbreviation, so when said out loud it is Warner Brothers.
I hope you watch The Big Sleep eventually. It's my favorite of the Bogie/Bacall films.
In the Steve Martin film noir spoof "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Rachel Ward does her own version of the "whistle" line:
If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles.
As much as I love Bogart, another adaptation of the novel, The Breaking Point (dir. Michael Curtiz of Casablanca), has become one of my favorite noirs.
If you really wanna see something, check out a 1950 movie called "The Breaking Point" with John Garfield (one of the last big movies he did before HUAC ended him), Patricia Neal, and a bunch of others. I've never had a handle on how it happened, but someone somewhere decided to film this same story more as a Hemingway kind of thing than a Howard Hawks kind of thing. Michael Curtiz did it toward the tail end of his golden period, so it's not like it's a cheap ripoff made by a nobody. "Breaking Point" is about a guy with a wife and two little daughters trying to keep his Southern California charter business afloat rather than a sport fisherman fucking around in the Caribbean - seeing two very different Golden Age powerhouses like Hawks and Curtiz take on the same source material is fascinating indeed. "Breaking Point" is more of a social realism film noir kind of deal rather than a Hawksian fever dream - not that there's anything at all wrong with a Hawksian fever dream. There's no attempt to create a Bogie/Bacall thing in "Breaking Point" either, the writers and director of "Breaking Point" are much more story and character focused than movie star focused. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Howard Hawks but I much prefer "Breaking Point" to "To Have and Have Not" - it's definitely worth a look, anyway. The last shot will rip your heart out and hand it to you in a way that Hawks' film never even attempts - again, that's not a slam against Hawks, just an underline of how different the two movies are. Criterion put out a lovely Blu-Ray a few years ago, it should still be around.
Your reaction to this classic was dead on perfect! You nailed everything... writing, acting, dialogue, chemistry. I've watched this at least 15 times in 20 years, and I think it's better than Casablanca, because of Lauren Bacall. And Hogie Carmichael. Sadly, no one from today knows him or his music.
I'm impressed, I think only about 1 in 100,000 people under 50 would know who Hoagy Carmichael was, let alone know anything about his music.
So many great movies, continue your wonderful work. Don't even think about these modern 'terminator', zombie, vampire, fantasy movies.
Although...I really wouldn't mind seeing an esrly John Wayne western like: "The Searchers" (one of the very best westerns ever made), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", "Red River", or "The Horse Soldiers". Please consider these.
I'm so glad you have the insight to appreciate the lighting in a classic and highly professional black and white production. So many others your age don't seem to have any artistic appreciation of that. I started watching another reaction of a different movie when 15 seconds into it the "reactor" said, "Oh, is this going to be in black and white? I don't know how I'm going to feel about that." I stopped watching immediately. She obviously didn't have the taste that you do. Black and white still photography, for example, even in the 21st century is a highly regarded and classic photographic art form. But many in the supposedly brilliant younger generation just don't get it. . .Not so brilliant. Glad you do get it. Great reaction video!
I absolutely love black and white and how directors would use different lighting patterns to convey the light to shadow ratios! So much can be said in black and white! I think in some cases it’s more effective than a movie told in color! But it’s not always something I believed, only until I really began watching classic films did I come to appreciate storytelling in black and white! It’s definitely not for everyone, but it is such a beautiful way of conveying stories! Thank you so much for watching and I am glad you enjoyed this reaction 😁
Mia - I recommend The Big Sleep as another Bogart Bacall movie.
I have just discovered your site. I love your reviews. I really enjoy you going into the movies a little deeper than most. It is wonderful for you to discover all these old movies. I am going to suggest two for you that are poles apart. The first one is The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. The Irish dialogue might be difficult so you might need the closed caption on. It is a very funny movie. It was actually filmed in Ireland. The second movie is Witness for the Prosecution. That stars Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, and Tyrone Powers. This is a sensational movie with the best twist at the end you have ever seen. Keep up the good work!
they setted it on Vichy's Martinique, as Hitler invaded France in 1940, but the original novel where located in the Cuba island, where Hemingway lived and ended his life in a suicide!