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 stage name, but Bogart declined it. The film version of "The Petrified Forest" was released in 1936, and Bogart's performance was called "brilliant", "compelling", and "superb". The film was highly successful, earning $500,000 at the box office, and making Bogart a star. He never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 named his only daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" after Howard, who had died in World War II when a civilian plane he was flying in was shot down under mysterious circumstances. Robert E. Sherwood remained a close friend of Bogart's. Despite his success in "The Petrified Forest," an "A movie", Bogart