Earlier comments apply, from 2014, 2016, 2019.
'She's nineteen' Q kept remarking. The story behind it is remarkable - Bogie was 44, married to a violent drunk - she literally once stabbed him in the back - sweetly told in Betty's autobiography 'By Myself and Then Some'. (As a complete aside, Peter Lorre was a close friend of Bogie's, '..very, very intelligent, knew a great deal about medicine, a first-rate horseman, drank a good deal but it never got out of hand' and was married to Kings Row's Kaaren Verne.)
Hawks was jealous of the two - Betty thinks it's because he no longer had control over the situation. They didn't actually get together until The Big Sleep.
Love Hawks' framing. (Everything important in the same frame - multiple stories, in fact.)
Dolores Moran is the other gorgeous gal.
Hawks had challenged William Faulkner to write a film out of Hemingway's worst story. (He also told him to write about flyers - 'Pylon' - which became The Tarnished Angels - wasn't much good either, apparently.)
That's Sir Lancelot (from IWWAZ) on board the boat.
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