Key Largo (film) Key Largo (film) Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The film was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play of the same name, which played on Broadway for 105 performances in 1939 and 1940. "Key Largo" was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall, after "To Have and Have Not" (1944), "The Big Sleep" (1946), and "Dark Passage" (1947), although they also appeared together
Lauren Bacall the 1950s by appearing as the leading lady in a string of films that won favorable reviews. Bacall was cast opposite Gary Cooper in "Bright Leaf" (1950). In the same year, she played a two-faced femme fatale in "Young Man with a Horn" (1950), a jazz musical co-starring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, and Hoagy Carmichael. During 1951–1952, Bacall co-starred with Bogart in the syndicated action-adventure radio series "Bold Venture". In 1953, she starred in the CinemaScope comedy "How to Marry a Millionaire", a runaway hit among critics and at the box office. Directed by Jean Negulesco and co-starring Marilyn Monroe