Christopher Bray

Bogart and Bacall’s first film together might as well have been called Carry On Flirting

Just a few months after the release of To Have and Have Not, with its sassy, sexy script, the film’s stars were married. But, as in many of Bogart’s films, romance also involved intrigue

Bogart and Bacall in a colourised still from To Have and Have Not (1944). [Alamy] 
issue 17 August 2024
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    Catherine Curzon

    White Owl, pp. 162, £22

You must remember this… Harry Morgan is leaning on the bar wondering how the femme fatale and her wounded freedom fighter husband are doing. Then Slim walks in, wearing two wisps of black satin linked by a hoop around her navel. Harry tells her it’s time he checked on his patient.

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