To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name; however, the story was altered for the film. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot centers on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter which is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks
Lauren Bacall early great days with Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks 35 years ago" and "Variety" observing, "Lauren Bacall makes the film [from a novel by Bob Randall] work with a solid performance as a stage star pursued by a psychotic fan whose adoration turns to hatred. To be sure, the part doesn't test the broadest range of Bacall's abilities, but she and director Edward Bianchi achieve the essential element: They make the audience care what happens to her." Bacall also was featured in Robert Altman's "Health" (1980) and Michael Winner's "Appointment with Death" (1988). In 1990, she had a small role