Lauren Bacall was only 19 when she made her film debut in this one and despite her glamorous worldly wise portrayal she said she was scared to death the whole time. And Hoagie Carmichael on the piano. Now you have to watch Best Years of our Lives. You simply have to.
It is "Stumpy" or Walter Brennan from Rio Bravo [John Wayne Movie], 14/15 years before. The piano player in the bar is the famous songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, who wrote famous tunes like Georgia on My Mind, Star Dust, and a host of others. And the song from this movie, The Hong Kong Blues. the Mob Boss played the doorman to the gambling room, 2 years earlier in Casablanca.
This movie came after Casablanca and was the movie where Bogart met Bacall, his future wife. They made 4 movies together and stayed married until Bogart's death.
The guy who slapped Lauren Bacall is Sheldon Leonard who played heavies in all kinds of movies including It’s a Wonderful Life and Guys and Dolls. He went on to be a big time TV producer.
Mr Leonard was also "Nick" at Martini's Bar in "It's a Wonderful Life" and later Executive Producer of The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show...both warm innocent TV shows from the early 60'.
Now you need to wach "Key Largo" & "The Big Sleep" to really get an idea of how good of an on-screen couple Lauren and Humphrey were. There are a few more, but start with those two.
These movies are very similar in plots. Casablanca was a city in the French colony of Morocco in North Africa, Martinique was a French Island in the Caribbean. Both were controlled by the Vichy French government which capitulated with the Germans following the fall of Paris in 1939. In each story, there are French resistance fighters who are needing help from Humphrey Bogart's character. Bogart plays an American expat in both. In Casablanca he runs a bar and here he runs a charter fishing service. Bacall and the married Bogart did begin an affair during filming. Bogart who was 46 yrs old would divorce his third wife and marry the 20 yr old Bacall a month later. It was quite the scandal being 1945. They would remain married for the next 12 years, until his death and have 2 children. Until the day she died in 2014 she recalled that Bogey was the one true love of her life.
@@BubbaCoop Casablanca was based upon the play _Everybody Comes to Rick's_ and this movie is based upon the Hemingway novel of the same name, _To Have and Have Not._ Whether one influenced the other is unknown to me.
@@robertanderson6929 I don't know that it had any affect on this movie, but Casablanca was filmed first. The Breaking Point was also based on the same Hemingway novel.
Once again, a great old movie, and a great reaction. Thanks so much for watching these classics, and getting to know all the old actors and actresses. It's wonderful that you appreciate them so much, and letting us watch them with you. God bless you!
Director Howard Hawks loved this kind of storyline. He pretty much designed it. Rio Bravo is pretty much the same just in a different location. And there's the excellent ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Best reaction ever!
Howard Hawks' wife was nicknamed Slim. The film is based on a book by Ernest Hemingway and is not as happy a tale as the film. About all that survives from Hemingway's story is the situation and the place.
Random thoughts: Lauren Bacall was supposedly 17 when she made this movie. It became a joke. Steve and Slim. Walter Brennan was one of the best character actors ever. He won three Oscars. If you like noir, you need to watch the Asphalt Jungle, and White Heat. The piano player is Hoagie Carmichael. He is a FAMOUS piano player and composer. He is also in the Best Years of Our Lives. You MUST see that!
yea, SHE married BOGIE when she was 21 the following year. ANd you are correct - DAWN def should see BEST years as I have only seen Cassie (popcorn in bed) view that masterpiece and she saw THE STING too, and DAwn might be real confused at the "sting " ending lol
This was her first leading role in a film, and she was nervous about her performance, that she wouldn't be able to pull off a "femme fatale" type role. Bogart gave her the advice to keep her head tilted slightly down while looking up. That look became "the look" for which she would be famous.
Lauren Bacall was born Bettie Joan Perskie in the Bronx. She was something of a natural--sultry beyond imagining, a gifted actress. She had a long very successful acting career as a leading lady "character actress" with a flat beguiling delivery
Check out... Red River (1939) John Wayne Montgomery Clift Walter Brennan Joanne Dru One of the best western movies ever made... Its about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail.
Stumpy / WB was good with Spencer Tracy & Robert Young in the early Color, big action movie -- “ The Northwest Passage. “. A must watch/ react movie !!!
What of the best character actors ever. In Rio Bravo, I thought he stole all the scenes he was in, and that's saying something with John Wayne and Dean Martin as the stars (with Ricky Nelson).
To establish some of the players: The fat man is Dan Seymour, who played a doorman in "Casablanca". Frenchy is Marcel Dalio, who played a croupier at "Rick's", also in "Casablanca". Lt. Coyo is Sheldon Leonard, who played Nick the bartender in "It's A Wonderful Life". You can see a more mature Lauren Bacall in the 1974 adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express". And, yes that's Walter Brennan as Eddie from, like, every other movie made between 1925 and 1972 - including "Rio Bravo" - except for this one he had his teeth in. Lastly, the piano player is Hoagy Carmichael, best remembered for a supporting role in "The Best Years Of Our Lives" - a film you haven't watched, but should.
Nice! To Have and Have Not is one of my favorite films. The heat between Bogart and Bacall is palpable. "If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." And yes, that's Stumpy. Eddie is played by Walter Brennan. He played the side kick in many golden era classics, including The Westerner (1940), Red River (1948), The Far Country (1954), Blood on the Moon (1948), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). PS. Two other great Bogey & Bacall films are Key Largo (1948) and The Big Sleep (1946). And to see her in something completely different, check out Dogville (2003).
Good job, @DawnMarieX. 1. Stumpy is played by Walter Brennan, a formerly obscure character actor who became a big star. (He had appeared, sometimes without billing, in Three Stooges and W.C. Fields films.) He ultimately became a big star, even had his own TV show and his own Disney kiddie movies. Not a nice guy in real life, though. 2. Lots of people doubt that's really Lauren Bacall's singing voice, bt it is. (The false rumor was that she was dubbed by Andy Williams or some male singer -- again it's false.) 3. If you want to see Bogart and Bacall in another great one, do THE BIG SLEEP. #DawnMarieX
The piano player is Hoagy Carmichael. Unknown to most young people today but the composer of "Stardust" one of the great tunes of the age (1927, with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish). Understandably, it was almost a hundred years ago. One of the most recorded songs of the jazz era, but now faded away. A strange kind of love song. It's not a song about being in love, it's a song about _remembering_ being in love.
The piano player is the Incomparable, Hoagie Carmichael! Such an amazingly talented musician, singer, song writer. He even appeared in an episode of "The Flintstones" cartoon program. He has written many songs that have been recorded by hundreds of performers each.
One of my favourite films and the one where he meets his future wife. The Cheap Detective is another good film that parodies all these type of Humphrey Bogart films.
There is an old radio show online with Bogey, Bacall (he called her "baby") and Bing Crosby singing as a trio. Before they start he tells Bing: " You think you're baritone? Wait till you hear baby!".
@@muggchum Andy was also hired for this film but since she is actually singing here...and she ain't no Rosemary Clooney!, the scene as it existed must have worked better than what Andy had ready.
10:31 one of the most iconic movie quotes ever. Now you can watch "A Night In Casablanca" (1946) and you'll appreciate the reference. Other good films with these actors: Lauren Bacall - The Shootist Bogie - Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Walter "stumpy" Brennen - Support Your Local Sheriff (but watch My Darling Clementine first)
The pills: probably sulfa pills which were commonly available and served as a basic antibiotic (all US soldiers carried sulfa powder in their first aid packets--sprinkled on an open wound, they really helped)
Lauren Bacall called Harry "Steve" by mistake and everyone just went with it. She was 19. Hawks was stuck on her but she fell for the drunk in the toupee. Humphrey Bogart. She looked down all the time because she was so nervous. And they called her "The Look." She was one of the best Hawksian women. Sexy tomboy and a little odd-looking.
One of my favorites particularly because it's the movie where Bogie and Bacal first met. I believe that is her singing. If I remember correctly, they were going to have another woman (like Marnie Nixon) sing for her but decided against it. Other Bogie and Bacal movies include "The Big Sleep" (love it) and "Key Largo" (lots of people love it).
14:06 "If you get one in the shoulder, you're going to survive." I know that it's a movie trope that if you get shot in the shoulder that you will survive, but it's only a trope. In reality, the axillary and subclavian arteries are in the shoulder and you can quickly bleed out. The singer, Selena, was shot in the subclavian artery and quickly bled out.
It's like the old reliable Hollywood head-hit. One not-too-brutal clot on the back of your head and you're out for however long the director wants you to be unconscious, with NO permanent injury and never much of a headache.
The theme of The Shootist and Gran Torino are quite similar, both basically dying men getting dangerous people out of circulation, in one movie more permanently than the other. It does beg the question why capital punishment is so rare in some states.
@@Anon54387 the shootist was exploring the theme of as the west became more civilized, they had fewer gunslinger and they were living longer. The Shootist also addressed hero worship.
"It's a trap!" "Okay, it's not a trap." This was a great choice, Dawn. Thank you for continuing to pick out these little gems that get overlooked by most reactors. Also, I never realized just how many movies Hoagy Carmichael was a piano player in.
Glad you liked this Hollywood classic. Great reaction. Walter Brennan ( Stumpy for always in your reference) was a great actor that was more than comic relief. He is a great villain in Westerns, played cynics well, and could easily be in a Western, modern tale, or just about anything. You will see him I’m sure in some classic westerns in the future and I expect your same wonderful reaction that we watched. First the quizzical look, the doubt, the unsure recognition, the last doubt and then….its Stumpy. Thanks for another great movie review and reaction.
I am a Bogart fan, love all his movies. Now Bogie and Bacall had such great chemistry on the screen in the four movies they did together. The first you just saw. To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948)
Walter Brennan (Stumpy, Eddie &so many other roles) was one of the greatest character actors of all time, and a multiple Academy Award winner. This was Lauren Bacall's first big role, she had been a successful fashion model. She became a sensation after this film including a cover of Time magazine. Key Largo is a great film with Bogie and Bacall, with the great Edward G. Robinson and Mr. Potter from Its a Wonderful Life, playing a good guy.
For years, it was said that Andy Williams did the singing for Lauren Bacall (who went by "Betty" in her real life), but Bacall has said it was actually her singing -- once Hawks heard her, he decided she could do it. Hawks liked her deep speaking voice and had her do exercises to make it deeper, including screaming, apparently. He was interested in her and Bogart and Bacall hid their relationship from him. Bogart was already married but the marriage was not a happy one (he and his wife were known as "the battling Bogarts"). Howard Hawks also directed many other films, including _Bringing Up Baby_ (screwball comedy), _The Big Sleep_ (film noir), and westerns.
Yay! I recommend this for everyone who loves CASABLANCA. Director Howard Hawks bet his friend Ernest Hemingway he could take his worst novel and make it a great film - and he did, but the film bears very little resemblance to the book. The director's wife saw Lauren Bacall on a magazine cover when she was just 18 and talked Howard into signing her for the film - her first ever. This was also Hoagy Carmichael's first credited film - and Howard Hawks had discovered him at a party. "Steve" and "Slim" were the nicknames Howard Hawks and his wife used for each other - Bogey and Bacall started using them for each other on and off the set, so was an inside-joke between the two couples. Another great Howard Hawks film stars John Wayne in HATARI! (1962). Filmed in East Africa, and J.W. reportedly did all his own stunts, as an international crew of game catchers go about their dangerous work. It's actually a Rom/Com with Elsa Martinelli as his love interest.
A great choice!!! Lauren Bacall was 20 when she married , in 1945, Bogart, he was 45. She had a great career, " Key Largo'" is another great movie with both of them. If you decide to react to "Misery", Bacall is the book editor in theat movie.
As a young boy in early fifties I used to love watching Walter Brennan on the Real McCoys he a grandfather image for me since I had none it was a great experience for me, now I’m the Grandfather of 12 👍🙏💯😎
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart married a year after dating, made four films, and became parents to two children in their short time together. Lauren Bacall, 19, was a former model starring in her first leading film role when she met Humphrey Bogart, 45, on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944
WOOO! So glad you watched this! FYI, this was Lauren Bacall's first appearance in any movie. She and Humphrey Bogart made a total of four movies together. They were the loves of each other's lives, and unlike most Hollywood couples, didn't dally with anyone else! And I'm glad that you recognized Walter Brennan! An epic character actor! A little trivia, the whistle scene was originally not in the script, but was part of Lauren Bacall's screen test. It was so hot, the writer rewrote the script to include it! And the actor that played Frenchie, Marcel Dalio, played Emil, the fellow running the roulette table.
Thank you for watching this. Lauren Bacall was very tall, very young, and very beautiful. She had a deep sultry voice that made her unique. Walter Brennan was always great. Yes, you really must watch "The Best Years of Our Lives". You know how to whistle? How is that line so sexy?
You can't go wrong with Bogie and Bacall. Another really, really good Bogart film is 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. 'Key Largo' is another. It's great that you do so many older films which don't always get the attention now that they deserve. If you're looking for an unusual John Wayne film, 'Hatari' is terrific!
It was a real pleasure to see your reactions to this film. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are such a fabulous pair on film together. Two other films that are my all time favorites are..... The Big Sleep and Key Largo. The Big Sleep is really intriguing in part because the story gets a bit complicated. Due to multiple rewrites in the script which at times didn't match. But the film itself is totally entertaining with amazing dialog and characters. Key Largo has the two actors together, a little bit older this time with a solid story and a major storm. Thanks for doing this one♥♥♥
This is one of my favorite movies. Lauren Becall so beautiful. Bogart fell for her big time and I can't blame him. I'm glad you like this as well, it tends to be hit or miss with young people watching older movies. You have the right mindset for watching movies like this.
Yes, Walter Brennan played Stumpy in "Rio Bravo" and Eddie here in "To Have And Have Not". And yes, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Swan in "Come and Get It" (1936). And yes again, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Peter Goodwin in the movie "Kentucky" (1938). And yes once more, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Judge Roy Bean in the movie "The Westerner" (1940).
Key Largo is another Bogie and Bacall movie to watch. Excellent. Stumpy is Walter Brennan, who became known for his voice and that walk. Played a great bad guy too. On to the next one!
The "French" wife was Irish-American actress and pin-up favorite Dolores Moran. Guys were ABSOLUTELY CRAZY HOT for her in her time. Walter Brennan was Stumpy/the Rummy/Pastor Pyle in 3 Hawks classics: Rio Bravo/To Have And Have Not/Sergeant York. He was second lead in Hawks' Red River but I don't remember his name. All four are in the National Film Registry of the Library Of Congress, along with 7 other Howard Hawks films for a total of 11, the most of any director, with John Ford second at 10 movies. And Ford got 2 or 3 Best Director Oscars. Hawks never won one and was only nominated once. But Cahiers Du Cinema and the French New Wave in the early 50s made Hawks a cause celebre, proclaiming him the only auteur film director of Hollywood's Golden Age. Then American critics Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell championed him. Sarris wrote "if you don't like Howard Hawks movies, you don't like America." Proving that you could make hit movie after hit movie after hit movie in Hollywood and still be regarded as lightweight. And ignored by everyone except the millions who flocked to see his movies. Especially when he had Cary Grant (5 films) or Humphrey Bogart (2 films) or John Wayne (5 films - 4 westerns and an African) (and the African was NOT about big game hunting bullshit but guys who rounded up animals for zoos). It was John Ford who liked to make movies about Great White Hunters in Africa. And Hawks was called the most optimistic AND least sentimental and most humane director in Old Hollywood. Don't watch his movies for high body counts of dead people and paranoia and not knowing whom to trust. Look at Rio Bravo. Wheeler is the only named character who dies/is gunned down. In fact, the dialogue is so clever and fun and adult you hate it when the boys (papa Wayne, mama Stumpy, and their kids, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson) remember that they're in a Western and have to pick up their guns. Hawks made great "Hanging With My Buds" movies. Even Gentlemen Prefer Blondes have at its core a buddy-buddy friendship between Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe equal to any male buddy-buddy movie like Butch and Sundance. In fact Jane Russell's character was so sexually frustrated she sings "Ain't Anyone Here For Love?" in a gym,full of Olympic athletes who are only interested in pumping iron and oiling each other up. Hawks gave Marilyn Monroe 2 big career-making movies, Monkey Business in 1952 and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 53 or 54. And unlike other directors who emphasized her bosom, Hawks emphasized her great big,sexy ass and had her dresses made to fit right across her butt but normal everywhere else. When Monroe leaves an office (she's the company head's private secretary) to find someone to type a letter, Cary Grant and the company president watch her wiggle her way out of the room. When she's gone the company president says "Anyone can type." Now you know more than you wanted about Howard Hawks
Best Movie Ever!!!!!!!! Lauren Bacall said she was so nervous shooting this film, she did the "chin down, look up" acting to keep her chin from shaking when she had to speak. Walter Brennan is fantastic (as usual!).
Did you realize, that the sailor that got a bukket full of water in his head is Walter Brennan ? He played Stompy in Rio Bravo western. I see that you did. And Lauren Bacall is in the last movie that John Wayne ever did. They were great friends, Lauren, Humphrey and John Wayne. She played a housekeeper that rent out rooms. And John Wayne is renting one of them. The movie is called The Shootist.
Lauren Bacall is the perfect foil for Marylin Monroe in "How to Marry a Millionaire". "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo" pair Boggy and Bacall again. "The Public Enemy" is an excellent B&W gangster film with James Cagney.
Hey, Dawn Marie. You can see Lauren Becall and John Wayne together in his last movie, THE SHOOTIST. She is older than in this movie. And it is the last time we see John Wayne. It is a western, something I know you like. Jimmy Stewart also co-stars as his doctor. The Duke goes out the way he should. In style, with guns blazing. It will probably bring a few tears to your eyes.
Dawn, "Stumpy" (Walter Brennan) in "Support Your Local Sheriff" with James Garner is a fave! Garner in "Support Your Local Gunfighter", TWO fun, farcical, features!
When he called her slim, she said that she was too skinny to appreciate the nick name and when he still called her slim ,she started calling him Steve(even though his name is Harry) just to be ornery, so from then on her nick name for Harry was Steve
To see Walter Brennan's(Stumpy) range, you could watch 'The Westerner' with Gary Cooper, where he plays Judge Roy Bean. Or 'My Darling Clementine' with Henry Fonda, where Walter is the heavy(bad guy).
Lauren Bacall was only 19 when she made her film debut in this one and despite her glamorous worldly wise portrayal she said she was scared to death the whole time.
And Hoagie Carmichael on the piano. Now you have to watch Best Years of our Lives. You simply have to.
Carmichael was also famous for writing some top songs of the era.
It is "Stumpy" or Walter Brennan from Rio Bravo [John Wayne Movie], 14/15 years before. The piano player in the bar is the famous songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, who wrote famous tunes like Georgia on My Mind, Star Dust, and a host of others. And the song from this movie, The Hong Kong Blues. the Mob Boss played the doorman to the gambling room, 2 years earlier in Casablanca.
I was hoping she would keep Hong Kong Blues in, but it was fine as this is one of my favorite Bogart movies.
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogard are in "The Big Sleep", "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo" together as well, Dawn.
It was a great 4 DVD box set! 🙂
@@creech54 Yes, I have that too.
What’s all on the 4 DVD box set?
@@JohnnyUtah15 This movie and the 3 mentioned above.
Big Sleep - highly recommended (do not think too much about it though - the plot is highly convoluted - just enjoy the performances)
Bacall pulled her chin down to control her nerves and created that distinctive voice for herself.
The piano player the great Hoagy Carmichael. He's in my fave movie of all time, The Best Years of Our Lives.
This movie came after Casablanca and was the movie where Bogart met Bacall, his future wife. They made 4 movies together and stayed married until Bogart's death.
The “all you have to do is put your lips together and blow“ scene is my favorite all time scene in the movies.
You know how to dial a phone? You put your finger in the hole and make little circles. ~~Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
"... So why don't you make like a Tree, and get the hell out of here." - Biff Tannen, BTTF.
The guy who slapped Lauren Bacall is Sheldon Leonard who played heavies in all kinds of movies including It’s a Wonderful Life and Guys and Dolls. He went on to be a big time TV producer.
Mr Leonard was also "Nick" at Martini's Bar in "It's a Wonderful Life" and later Executive Producer of The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show...both warm innocent TV shows from the early 60'.
And Sheldon and Leonard in the Big Bang Theory were named after him
Lauren Bacall was in the last John Wayne movie ever. "The Shootist". You should also watch her in "How to marry a millionaire"
Now you need to wach "Key Largo" & "The Big Sleep" to really get an idea of how good of an on-screen couple Lauren and Humphrey were.
There are a few more, but start with those two.
I'm sorry, but no. This is the only one where they sizzled.
Dark Passage is my favourite of theirs. It is so much more than the pov first half it's remembered for as impressive as that was.
Key largo is excellent.
Key largo great movie
These movies are very similar in plots. Casablanca was a city in the French colony of Morocco in North Africa, Martinique was a French Island in the Caribbean. Both were controlled by the Vichy French government which capitulated with the Germans following the fall of Paris in 1939. In each story, there are French resistance fighters who are needing help from Humphrey Bogart's character. Bogart plays an American expat in both. In Casablanca he runs a bar and here he runs a charter fishing service.
Bacall and the married Bogart did begin an affair during filming. Bogart who was 46 yrs old would divorce his third wife and marry the 20 yr old Bacall a month later. It was quite the scandal being 1945. They would remain married for the next 12 years, until his death and have 2 children. Until the day she died in 2014 she recalled that Bogey was the one true love of her life.
Quite a coincidence, then, that Casablanca director Michael Curtiz did his own adaptation of this novel without Bogart.
@@BubbaCoop Casablanca was based upon the play _Everybody Comes to Rick's_ and this movie is based upon the Hemingway novel of the same name, _To Have and Have Not._ Whether one influenced the other is unknown to me.
@@robertanderson6929 I don't know that it had any affect on this movie, but Casablanca was filmed first. The Breaking Point was also based on the same Hemingway novel.
@@BubbaCoop I didn't know that.
In 1941, Casablanca was a city in the colony of French Morocco, in North Africa, not that it makes much difference to this story.
Once again, a great old movie, and a great reaction. Thanks so much for watching these classics, and getting to know all the old actors and actresses. It's wonderful that you appreciate them so much, and letting us watch them with you. God bless you!
Ditto !
Director Howard Hawks loved this kind of storyline. He pretty much designed it. Rio Bravo is pretty much the same just in a different location. And there's the excellent ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS. Best reaction ever!
Don't forget the female lead in Rio Bravo, "Feathers" played by the lovely Angie Dickinson, who's still with us at age 93.
Howard Hawks' wife was nicknamed Slim. The film is based on a book by Ernest Hemingway and is not as happy a tale as the film. About all that survives from Hemingway's story is the situation and the place.
Random thoughts: Lauren Bacall was supposedly 17 when she made this movie. It became a joke. Steve and Slim. Walter Brennan was one of the best character actors ever. He won three Oscars. If you like noir, you need to watch the Asphalt Jungle, and White Heat. The piano player is Hoagie Carmichael. He is a FAMOUS piano player and composer. He is also in the Best Years of Our Lives. You MUST see that!
I think she was 19. So young. It was different back then.
yea, SHE married BOGIE when she was 21 the following year. ANd you are correct - DAWN def should see BEST years as I have only seen Cassie (popcorn in bed) view that masterpiece and she saw THE STING too, and DAwn might be real confused at the "sting " ending lol
This was her first leading role in a film, and she was nervous about her performance, that she wouldn't be able to pull off a "femme fatale" type role. Bogart gave her the advice to keep her head tilted slightly down while looking up. That look became "the look" for which she would be famous.
What do you mean supposedly?
It's easy to verify that she was born in 1924 and the movie was filmed and released in 1944
@@muggchum People matured faster back then.
Thanks!
Lauren Bacall was born Bettie Joan Perskie in the Bronx. She was something of a natural--sultry beyond imagining, a gifted actress. She had a long very successful acting career as a leading lady "character actress" with a flat beguiling delivery
Great to see a youngin' reacting to a truly classic film!
yep. That's Stumpy, otherwise known as Walter Brennan.
Check out... Red River (1939)
John Wayne Montgomery Clift Walter Brennan Joanne Dru
One of the best western movies ever made...
Its about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail.
@@bigbow62 Walter Brennan, one of the longest lasting and most valuable supporting players out there!
He was the "Real McCoy" for sure . . .
Stumpy / WB was good with Spencer Tracy & Robert Young in the early Color, big action movie -- “ The Northwest Passage. “. A must watch/ react movie !!!
What of the best character actors ever. In Rio Bravo, I thought he stole all the scenes he was in, and that's saying something with John Wayne and Dean Martin as the stars (with Ricky Nelson).
To establish some of the players:
The fat man is Dan Seymour, who played a doorman in "Casablanca". Frenchy is Marcel Dalio, who played a croupier at "Rick's", also in "Casablanca". Lt. Coyo is Sheldon Leonard, who played Nick the bartender in "It's A Wonderful Life". You can see a more mature Lauren Bacall in the 1974 adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express". And, yes that's Walter Brennan as Eddie from, like, every other movie made between 1925 and 1972 - including "Rio Bravo" - except for this one he had his teeth in. Lastly, the piano player is Hoagy Carmichael, best remembered for a supporting role in "The Best Years Of Our Lives" - a film you haven't watched, but should.
Nice! To Have and Have Not is one of my favorite films. The heat between Bogart and Bacall is palpable. "If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." And yes, that's Stumpy. Eddie is played by Walter Brennan. He played the side kick in many golden era classics, including The Westerner (1940), Red River (1948), The Far Country (1954), Blood on the Moon (1948), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). PS. Two other great Bogey & Bacall films are Key Largo (1948) and The Big Sleep (1946). And to see her in something completely different, check out Dogville (2003).
Good job, @DawnMarieX.
1. Stumpy is played by Walter Brennan, a formerly obscure character actor who became a big star. (He had appeared, sometimes without billing, in Three Stooges and W.C. Fields films.) He ultimately became a big star, even had his own TV show and his own Disney kiddie movies. Not a nice guy in real life, though.
2. Lots of people doubt that's really Lauren Bacall's singing voice, bt it is. (The false rumor was that she was dubbed by Andy Williams or some male singer -- again it's false.)
3. If you want to see Bogart and Bacall in another great one, do THE BIG SLEEP.
#DawnMarieX
Walter Brennan in "Support Your Local Sheriff" with James Garner is a fave!
The piano player is Hoagy Carmichael. Unknown to most young people today but the composer of "Stardust" one of the great tunes of the age (1927, with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish). Understandably, it was almost a hundred years ago. One of the most recorded songs of the jazz era, but now faded away. A strange kind of love song. It's not a song about being in love, it's a song about _remembering_ being in love.
The piano player is the Incomparable, Hoagie Carmichael! Such an amazingly talented musician, singer, song writer. He even appeared in an episode of "The Flintstones" cartoon program. He has written many songs that have been recorded by hundreds of performers each.
Stardust, Georgia on My Mind , and dozens of others.
Lauren Bacall: Key Largo, The Big Sleep, How to Marry a Millionaire, Written on The Wind, Murder on The Orient Express,
"The Shootist" with John Wayne.
Sex and the Single Girl, she's married to Hank Fonda. Young Man with a Horn, she gets to work with Hoagy again.
This is truly a great film with my favorite Humphrey Bogart staring.
One of my favourite films and the one where he meets his future wife. The Cheap Detective is another good film that parodies all these type of Humphrey Bogart films.
Yes! She's gotta watch the Cheap Detective and the one before it, Murder By Death. Also Steve Martin's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
There is an old radio show online with Bogey, Bacall
(he called her "baby") and Bing
Crosby singing as a trio.
Before they start he tells Bing:
" You think you're baritone?
Wait till you hear baby!".
That is Bacall singing. Hawks was going to replace it with an actual singer but it was never used.
I think she was dubbed in The Big Sleep by the youngest of the Williams Brothers, Andy. He discusses it in his autobiography.
@@muggchum Andy was also hired for this film but since she is actually singing here...and she ain't no Rosemary Clooney!, the scene as it existed must have worked better than what Andy had ready.
@@ignatzmuskrat3000 that’s what I thought. Thanks!
@@ignatzmuskrat3000 Her singing's sexy
@@muggchum Thx to my handy Leonard Maltin movie guide, 1988 edition!
10:31 one of the most iconic movie quotes ever. Now you can watch "A Night In Casablanca" (1946) and you'll appreciate the reference.
Other good films with these actors:
Lauren Bacall - The Shootist
Bogie - Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Walter "stumpy" Brennen - Support Your Local Sheriff (but watch My Darling Clementine first)
The pills: probably sulfa pills which were commonly available and served as a basic antibiotic (all US soldiers carried sulfa powder in their first aid packets--sprinkled on an open wound, they really helped)
Lauren Bacall called Harry "Steve" by mistake and everyone just went with it. She was 19. Hawks was stuck on her but she fell for the drunk in the toupee. Humphrey Bogart.
She looked down all the time because she was so nervous. And they called her "The Look." She was one of the best Hawksian women. Sexy tomboy and a little odd-looking.
A truly iconic couple. Their first film together.
One of my favorites particularly because it's the movie where Bogie and Bacal first met. I believe that is her singing. If I remember correctly, they were going to have another woman (like Marnie Nixon) sing for her but decided against it. Other Bogie and Bacal movies include "The Big Sleep" (love it) and "Key Largo" (lots of people love it).
I heard Andy Williams (or all people) was going to sub for her singing in Big Sleep - not sure if it was or not
14:06 "If you get one in the shoulder, you're going to survive."
I know that it's a movie trope that if you get shot in the shoulder that you will survive, but it's only a trope. In reality, the axillary and subclavian arteries are in the shoulder and you can quickly bleed out. The singer, Selena, was shot in the subclavian artery and quickly bled out.
EXACTLY, 💯 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!!!!!!!
It's like the old reliable Hollywood head-hit. One not-too-brutal clot on the back of your head and you're out for however long the director wants you to be unconscious, with NO permanent injury and never much of a headache.
Dawn, 'The Treasure of The Sierra Madre' with Bogart is a must-watch.
The Shootist 1976. Western. John Waynes last movie, staring Lauren Bacall.
*Shootist
Ma'am, we have a touchy situation here.
The theme of The Shootist and Gran Torino are quite similar, both basically dying men getting dangerous people out of circulation, in one movie more permanently than the other. It does beg the question why capital punishment is so rare in some states.
@@BubbaCoop thanks
@@Anon54387 the shootist was exploring the theme of as the west became more civilized, they had fewer gunslinger and they were living longer. The Shootist also addressed hero worship.
"It's a trap!"
"Okay, it's not a trap."
This was a great choice, Dawn. Thank you for continuing to pick out these little gems that get overlooked by most reactors. Also, I never realized just how many movies Hoagy Carmichael was a piano player in.
Oh...and my favorite line.......have you ever been stung by the dead bee? Cracks me up every time.
Glad you liked this Hollywood classic. Great reaction. Walter Brennan ( Stumpy for always in your reference) was a great actor that was more than comic relief. He is a great villain in Westerns, played cynics well, and could easily be in a Western, modern tale, or just about anything. You will see him I’m sure in some classic westerns in the future and I expect your same wonderful reaction that we watched. First the quizzical look, the doubt, the unsure recognition, the last doubt and then….its Stumpy. Thanks for another great movie review and reaction.
I am a Bogart fan, love all his movies. Now Bogie and Bacall had such great chemistry on the screen in the four movies they did together. The first you just saw.
To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948)
Great film, the dialogue can't be beat. So good to see this getting your reaction!
Yes it is Stumpy AKA Walter Brennan.
Walter Brennan (Stumpy, Eddie &so many other roles) was one of the greatest character actors of all time, and a multiple Academy Award winner. This was Lauren Bacall's first big role, she had been a successful fashion model. She became a sensation after this film including a cover of Time magazine. Key Largo is a great film with Bogie and Bacall, with the great Edward G. Robinson and Mr. Potter from Its a Wonderful Life, playing a good guy.
And Claire Trevor aka Dallas from Stagecoach in her Oscar winning role
@@paulpeacock1181 She is so good in that.
For years, it was said that Andy Williams did the singing for Lauren Bacall (who went by "Betty" in her real life), but Bacall has said it was actually her singing -- once Hawks heard her, he decided she could do it. Hawks liked her deep speaking voice and had her do exercises to make it deeper, including screaming, apparently. He was interested in her and Bogart and Bacall hid their relationship from him. Bogart was already married but the marriage was not a happy one (he and his wife were known as "the battling Bogarts").
Howard Hawks also directed many other films, including _Bringing Up Baby_ (screwball comedy), _The Big Sleep_ (film noir), and westerns.
Yay! I recommend this for everyone who loves CASABLANCA. Director Howard Hawks bet his friend Ernest Hemingway he could take his worst novel and make it a great film - and he did, but the film bears very little resemblance to the book. The director's wife saw Lauren Bacall on a magazine cover when she was just 18 and talked Howard into signing her for the film - her first ever. This was also Hoagy Carmichael's first credited film - and Howard Hawks had discovered him at a party. "Steve" and "Slim" were the nicknames Howard Hawks and his wife used for each other - Bogey and Bacall started using them for each other on and off the set, so was an inside-joke between the two couples. Another great Howard Hawks film stars John Wayne in HATARI! (1962). Filmed in East Africa, and J.W. reportedly did all his own stunts, as an international crew of game catchers go about their dangerous work. It's actually a Rom/Com with Elsa Martinelli as his love interest.
A great choice!!! Lauren Bacall was 20 when she married , in 1945, Bogart, he was 45. She had a great career, " Key Largo'" is another great movie with both of them. If you decide to react to "Misery", Bacall is the book editor in theat movie.
As a young boy in early fifties I used to love watching Walter Brennan on the Real McCoys he a grandfather image for me since I had none it was a great experience for me, now I’m the Grandfather of 12 👍🙏💯😎
This and The Big Sleep are the best films with Lauren and Bogie, their chemistry is just brilliant.
You forgot "Key Largo" and "Dark Passage."
In A Lonely Place is the best Bogart film. He's a screenwriter in Hollywood suspected of murder.
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart married a year after dating, made four films, and became parents to two children in their short time together. Lauren Bacall, 19, was a former model starring in her first leading film role when she met Humphrey Bogart, 45, on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944
Lauren Bacall was always known for having that deep voice.
WOOO! So glad you watched this! FYI, this was Lauren Bacall's first appearance in any movie. She and Humphrey Bogart made a total of four movies together. They were the loves of each other's lives, and unlike most Hollywood couples, didn't dally with anyone else! And I'm glad that you recognized Walter Brennan! An epic character actor! A little trivia, the whistle scene was originally not in the script, but was part of Lauren Bacall's screen test. It was so hot, the writer rewrote the script to include it! And the actor that played Frenchie, Marcel Dalio, played Emil, the fellow running the roulette table.
You know why we love 💕 you so much Dawn , because your a little bit of a good ball . We love that!
One of my very favorite movies! Delightful reaction. Excellent cast and great music (Hoagy Carmichael!!!).
As a rule - "together" is the preferred way to fall in love.
His crewman, the drunk, is Walter Brennan. He played Stumpy in Rio Bravo.
Thank you for watching this. Lauren Bacall was very tall, very young, and very beautiful. She had a deep sultry voice that made her unique. Walter Brennan was always great. Yes, you really must watch "The Best Years of Our Lives". You know how to whistle? How is that line so sexy?
You can't go wrong with Bogie and Bacall. Another really, really good Bogart film is 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. 'Key Largo' is another. It's great that you do so many older films which don't always get the attention now that they deserve. If you're looking for an unusual John Wayne film, 'Hatari' is terrific!
It was a real pleasure to see your reactions to this film. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are such a fabulous pair on film together.
Two other films that are my all time favorites are.....
The Big Sleep and Key Largo.
The Big Sleep is really intriguing in part because the story gets a bit complicated. Due to multiple rewrites in the script which at times didn't match.
But the film itself is totally entertaining with amazing dialog and characters.
Key Largo has the two actors together, a little bit older this time with a solid story and a major storm. Thanks for doing this one♥♥♥
This is one of my favorite movies. Lauren Becall so beautiful. Bogart fell for her big time and I can't blame him. I'm glad you like this as well, it tends to be hit or miss with young people watching older movies. You have the right mindset for watching movies like this.
Best scene for me is when Lauren Bacall uses the hand fan to get more chloroform vapor to the other lady that just passed out.
Thanks for posting! Another solid gold Humphrey Bogart movie from the 40's is The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre.
One of my all time favofrites, the chemistry is unreal
Yes, Walter Brennan played Stumpy in "Rio Bravo" and Eddie here in "To Have And Have Not". And yes, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Swan in "Come and Get It" (1936). And yes again, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Peter Goodwin in the movie "Kentucky" (1938). And yes once more, Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Judge Roy Bean in the movie "The Westerner" (1940).
Do The Big Sleep! Bogart and Bacall.
I’m glad you love Walter Brennan. ❤
The Big Sleep is one of my favorites.
@@jj05167 mine, too! I’ve even watched it on an airplane. Great book, too.
Key Largo is another Bogie and Bacall movie to watch. Excellent. Stumpy is Walter Brennan, who became known for his voice and that walk. Played a great bad guy too. On to the next one!
Thanks for watching one of my favorite movies. Enjoyed your reaction
All time favorite classic
No kissin Frenchie 😆
Yes, Eddie was same actor as Stumpy from Rio Bravo, Walter Brennan
I am a film noir fan and I love this type of movie.
The "French" wife was Irish-American actress and pin-up favorite Dolores Moran. Guys were ABSOLUTELY CRAZY HOT for her in her time. Walter Brennan was Stumpy/the Rummy/Pastor Pyle in 3 Hawks classics: Rio Bravo/To Have And Have Not/Sergeant York. He was second lead in Hawks' Red River but I don't remember his name. All four are in the National Film Registry of the Library Of Congress, along with 7 other Howard Hawks films for a total of 11, the most of any director, with John Ford second at 10 movies. And Ford got 2 or 3 Best Director Oscars. Hawks never won one and was only nominated once.
But Cahiers Du Cinema and the French New Wave in the early 50s made Hawks a cause celebre, proclaiming him the only auteur film director of Hollywood's Golden Age. Then American critics Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell championed him. Sarris wrote "if you don't like Howard Hawks movies, you don't like America."
Proving that you could make hit movie after hit movie after hit movie in Hollywood and still be regarded as lightweight. And ignored by everyone except the millions who flocked to see his movies. Especially when he had Cary Grant (5 films) or Humphrey Bogart (2 films) or John Wayne (5 films - 4 westerns and an African) (and the African was NOT about big game hunting bullshit but guys who rounded up animals for zoos). It was John Ford who liked to make movies about Great White Hunters in Africa.
And Hawks was called the most optimistic AND least sentimental and most humane director in Old Hollywood. Don't watch his movies for high body counts of dead people and paranoia and not knowing whom to trust. Look at Rio Bravo. Wheeler is the only named character who dies/is gunned down. In fact, the dialogue is so clever and fun and adult you hate it when the boys (papa Wayne, mama Stumpy, and their kids, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson) remember that they're in a Western and have to pick up their guns.
Hawks made great "Hanging With My Buds" movies. Even Gentlemen Prefer Blondes have at its core a buddy-buddy friendship between Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe equal to any male buddy-buddy movie like Butch and Sundance. In fact Jane Russell's character was so sexually frustrated she sings "Ain't Anyone Here For Love?" in a gym,full of Olympic athletes who are only interested in pumping iron and oiling each other up.
Hawks gave Marilyn Monroe 2 big career-making movies, Monkey Business in 1952 and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 53 or 54. And unlike other directors who emphasized her bosom, Hawks emphasized her great big,sexy ass and had her dresses made to fit right across her butt but normal everywhere else. When Monroe leaves an office (she's the company head's private secretary) to find someone to type a letter, Cary Grant and the company president watch her wiggle her way out of the room. When she's gone the company president says "Anyone can type."
Now you know more than you wanted about Howard Hawks
One of my favorite films.. so great ❤️
"Frenchy" was also the roulette croupier in "Casablanca."
I hope you continue with these classics,they're so much better than the more modern movies
It is Stumpy (Walter Brennan).
Dawn you are the best reactor ever the only one who does the old movies!
I think you will enjoy "The Big Sleep" in which Bogart and Bacall have a very different relationship but the on-screen chemistry is evident
Best Movie Ever!!!!!!!!
Lauren Bacall said she was so nervous shooting this film, she did the "chin down, look up" acting to keep her chin from shaking when she had to speak. Walter Brennan is fantastic (as usual!).
There is a myth that a young Andy Williams dubbed Lauren Bacall singing. But that was actually Bacall singing.
Lauren Bacall, along with Doris Day and Julie Newmar are my most favorite classic actresses.
Hi Dawn hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
One of my favorite old films! Like the bogart film Maltese falcon too
Another great reaction to one of my favorites 😊
An even better version is the 1950 film, The Breaking Point starring John Garfield. No happy ending though.
Did you realize, that the sailor that got a bukket full of water in his head is Walter Brennan ? He played Stompy in Rio Bravo western. I see that you did. And Lauren Bacall is in the last movie that John Wayne ever did. They were great friends, Lauren, Humphrey and John Wayne. She played a housekeeper that rent out rooms. And John Wayne is renting one of them. The movie is called The Shootist.
Bogart and Bacall feel in love doing THE BIG SLEEP.
Lauren Bacall is the perfect foil for Marylin Monroe in "How to Marry a Millionaire". "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo" pair Boggy and Bacall again. "The Public Enemy" is an excellent B&W gangster film with James Cagney.
Bogart and Bacall did another film called "Key Largo" which is one of my favorite movies.
07:00 Do you notice the cart full of blocks of ice. That's how they kept things cold before refrigeration.
Hey, Dawn Marie.
You can see Lauren Becall and John Wayne together in his last movie, THE SHOOTIST.
She is older than in this movie. And it is the last time we see John Wayne. It is a western, something I know you like. Jimmy Stewart also co-stars as his doctor. The Duke goes out the way he should. In style, with guns blazing. It will probably bring a few tears to your eyes.
The book To Have and Have Not written by Nobel prize winner Ernest Hemingway and adapted to screen by Nobel prize winner William Faulkner!
She was a teenager, she was just a kid when she made this movie.
It is a sort of sequel to 'Casablanca'; but, unlike most recent Hollywood sequels, it's excellent and stands on its own. Brilliant script and casting.
Literally my favorite movie.I think I made a comment about it here sometime in The Past When you
Did the big sleep
Howard Hawk's the director called his wife " slim" and she called him " Steve ".
They got him, right through the desk
Dawn, "Stumpy" (Walter Brennan) in "Support Your Local Sheriff" with James Garner is a fave! Garner in "Support Your Local Gunfighter", TWO fun, farcical, features!
"Support Your Local Sheriff" - ruclips.net/video/KRNbbNBGaj0/видео.html
When he called her slim, she said that she was too skinny to appreciate the nick name and when he still called her slim ,she started calling him Steve(even though his name is Harry) just to be ornery, so from then on her nick name for Harry was Steve
Chill vibe…. Yup, that’s Lauren Bacall. And ❤❤ Walter Brennan
To see Walter Brennan's(Stumpy) range, you could watch 'The Westerner' with Gary Cooper, where he plays Judge Roy Bean. Or 'My Darling Clementine' with Henry Fonda, where Walter is the heavy(bad guy).