"You Know How to Whistle?"

Yowser. Sharing one of the hotter Hollywood kisses is Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in 1944's To Have and Have Not. As with Casablanca the setting is a Vichy French territory. But this time it's Bacall, not Bergman, who wins Bogie - and in real life, too. The couple fell in love and eventually married, living together until Bogart died of lung cancer in 1957.

Falcon's Lair

On October 19, 1941, less than two months before Pearl Harbor, Warner Brothers released Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon. The dark detective tale starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Peter Lorre dripped with foreboding. By then most of America feared getting involved in the growing conflict overseas. A.O. Scott of the New York Times offers a recent critique on the classic.

You Must Remember This

It's the trailer from Casablanca, the 1942 classic that almost cast Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan, not Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the starring roles. How the movie got made is a fascinating story of Hollywood at war. More to come.