Roger Lewis

Complicated and slightly creepy: the Bogart-Bacall romance

Bogart appears as a belligerent alcoholic and the much younger Bacall an arrogant manipulator in William J. Mann’s account of their ‘passionate’ love story

Bogart and Bacall met while making To Have and Have Not, the 1944 film directed by Howard Hawks, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. [Getty Images] 
issue 19 August 2023
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  • Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair

    William J. Mann

    Harper Collins, pp. 635, £3

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