Key Largo (song) romance the singer compares to that depicted by the stars of the 1948 film "Key Largo", Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The glamorous couple is recalled in the lyric "We had it all / Just like Bogie and Bacall / Starring in our own late late show / Sailin' away to Key Largo". (In the film, though, Bogart and Bacall do not sail to Key Largo; Bogart arrives on a bus, and Bacall is already living there.) The lyrics also draw from the film "Casablanca", in the lines "Here's looking at you, kid" and "Please say you will / Play
Humphrey Bogart weekends a year on the water, with a particular fondness for sailing around Catalina Island. He once said, "An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be." He also joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve offering the use of his own yacht, Santana, for Coast Guard use. It was rumored Bogart attempted to enlist but was turned down because of his age. The suspenseful "Dark Passage" (1947) was Bogart and Bacall's next pairing. Its first third is shot subjectively, that is from the point-of-view of