Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

==== ''To Have and Have Not'' ====
[[File:To-Have-and-Have-Not-LIFE-1.jpg|thumb|right|upright|With Lauren Bacall and [[Marcel Dalio]] in ''To Have and Have Not'' (1944)]]
[[File:Bogart and Bacall The Big Sleep.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Bogart and Bacall in ''The Big Sleep'' (1946)]]

[[Howard Hawks]] introduced Bogart and Lauren Bacall while Bogart was filming ''[[Passage to Marseille]]'' (1944).<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Barnes|first1=Mike|last2=Byrge|first2=Duane|date=August 12, 2014|title=Lauren Bacall, Hollywood's Icon of Cool, Dies at 89|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lauren-bacall-dead-hollywood-icon-719699|access-date=May 1, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en}}</ref> The three subsequently collaborated on ''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]'' (1944), a loose adaptation of the [[Ernest Hemingway]] novel, and Bacall's film debut. It has several similarities to ''Casablanca'': the same kind of hero and enemies, and a piano player (portrayed this time by [[Hoagy Carmichael]]) as a supporting character.<ref>{{cite news|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/10/12/archives/to-have-and-have-not-with-humphrey-bogart-at-the-hollywood-arrival.html|title=''To Have and Have Not,'' With Humphrey Bogart, at the Hollywood – Arrival of Other New Films at Theatres Here|work=The New York Times|date=October 12, 1944|access-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref> When they met, Bacall was 19 and Bogart 44; he nicknamed her "Baby". A model since age 16, she had appeared in two failed plays. Bogart was attracted by Bacall's high cheekbones, green eyes, tawny blond hair, lean body, maturity, poise and earthy, outspoken honesty;<ref name=Meyers_p166>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=166.}}</ref> he reportedly said, "I just saw your test. We'll have a lot of fun together".<ref name=Meyers_p165>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=165.}}</ref>

Their emotional bond was strong from the start, their difference in age and acting-experience encouraged a mentor-student dynamic. In contrast to the Hollywood norm, their affair was Bogart's first with a leading lady.<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 258.</ref> His early meetings with Bacall were discreet and brief, their separations bridged by love letters.<ref name=Meyers_p166-167>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=166–167.}}</ref> The relationship made it easier for Bacall to make her first film, and Bogart did his best to put her at ease with jokes and quiet coaching.<ref name="Bacall">Bacall, Lauren. ''By Myself and Then Some'', HarperCollins, New York, 2005. {{ISBN|0-06-075535-0}}</ref> He encouraged her to steal scenes; [[Howard Hawks]] also did his best to highlight her role, and found Bogart easy to direct.<ref name=Meyers_p173-174>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=173–174.}}</ref>

However, Hawks began to disapprove of the relationship.<ref name="Bacall" /> He considered himself Bacall's protector and mentor, and Bogart was usurping that role. Not usually drawn to his starlets, the married director also fell for Bacall; he told her that she meant nothing to Bogart and threatened to send her to the poverty-row studio [[Monogram Pictures]]. Bogart calmed her down, and then went after Hawks; Jack Warner settled the dispute, and filming resumed.<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, pp. 263–264.</ref> Hawks said about Bacall, "Bogie fell in love with the character she played, so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life."<ref name=Meyers_p168>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=168.}}</ref> However, Bacall wrote in her memoir about the love she and Bogart shared, "No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it." and she said regarding Bogart's personality, "He was a very gentle soul. He was very strong, and very sure about what he believed in and what he thought was important and not important. He couldn't be pushed around. But he was a gentle man. I was very, very lucky to have even met him, much less have been married to him. He had extraordinary gifts. He was much more of a complete individual than most people are. He had the kind of standards my mother had. Their values were very much the same. It was very interesting. He had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=One Hell of a Dame: Remembering Lauren Bacall |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-hell-of-a-dame-rememb_b_5676295 |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>