'To Have And To Have Not'

An Ernest Hemingway novel adapted to the screen by William Faulkner. It's only the second time that two Nobel Prize winners were associated with the same film (interestingly, a lot of the dialogue was ad libbed by the cast).

A broke Faulkner was invited to Hollywood in the 1940s by director Howard Hawks (who directed To Have and to Have Not). It paid well and Faulkner needed the cash, so he went.

According to one story, Hawks took Faulkner and Clark Gable hunter. The actor and writer didn't know each other and conversation turned to writers. Gable asked Faulkner who his favorite writers were. He listed off some writers including himself.

Gable apparently responded, "Oh, do you write, Mr. Faulkner?" Faulkner replied, "Yes. And what do you do, Mr. Gable?"

Another story -- possibly apocryphal -- had Faulkner struggling with writer's block at the studio. Faulkner told Hawks he'd like to write at home.

Days passed with no communication, Hawks calls Faulkner's hotel and the writer is gone, left for Mississippi. He literally wanted to go home.

This film is Lauren Bacall's screen debut. She was 19 years old. This is also when she fell in love with her future husband, Humphrey Bogart. He was 45 and 12 years away from dying due to throat cancer.

Bogie had been married three other times. Bacall would marry once more, to Jason Robards.