Word: bogarting
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...Have and Have Not (Warner), having jettisoned a solid 90% of the Ernest Hemingway novel, for which Warner Bros, paid plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...
...Bernadette, A Guy Named Joe, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Lassie Come Home, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Destination Tokyo, Lady in the Dark, Guadalcanal Diary, See Here Private Hargrove, The White Cliffs of Dover. ¶Men stars draw better than women. Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Walter Pidgeon still pack them in, provided the picture is palatable. Tops among women are Greer Garson, Betty Grable, Bette Davis, Jean Arthur. Clark Gable may be the biggest draw of all, if & when he makes the picture currently scheduled...
...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...
...booing, whistling and cracking is just a friendly salute to a well-filled sweater, or yumyummery for the love scenes. But there is nothing friendly about G.I. reactions to films which make the enemy look stupid or easily beaten. In Rome a G.I. said: "Stuff like Humphrey Bogart whipping a whole German armored-car column practically singlehanded gives us pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest...
Paramount didn't borrow Warner's Bogart for a part that Bogart might have filled and they have done better with MacMurray who isn't quite so stony. Bogart makes a good detective, a good thug, and a good martyr, but the boy with the light comedy past comes through with the best performance of his career...