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 with a picture opening could be represented there, standards had been so lowered" and didn't feel she had yet achieved the status of a major star, and was thereby unworthy of the honor: "I want to feel I've earned my place with the best my business has produced." At the time, Bacall was still under contract to 20th Century Fox. Following "How to Marry a Millionaire", she appeared in yet another CinemaScope comedy directed by Jean Negulesco, "Woman's World" (1954), which failed to match its predecessor's success at the box office. In 1955 a television version of Bogart's breakthrough film,