A Love Story: The Story of ‘To Have and Have Not’

A Love Story: The Story of ‘To Have and Have Not’

Year: 2003

Runtime: 11 mins

Language: English

Documentary

In the 1940s Howard Hawks claims he can turn Hemingway’s novel, To Have and Have Not, into a film. Jules Furthman drafts a script set in Cuba; William Faulkner rewrites, the story set in Martinique. Hawks’s wife sees a Harper’s Bazaar cover model; after a screen test he casts the 19‑yr Betty Perske opposite Humphrey Bogart, who becomes Lauren Bacall.

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