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]
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