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
Betty Jaynes (actress) April 1, 1937. She appeared as Molly Moran in "Babes in Arms" in 1939, then in a series of minor parts in seven MGM movies through 1944 including "Meet the People", starring Lucille Ball. Her last major acting role was in 1952, in an "I Love Lucy" episode, "The Operetta". Jaynes married actor and budding baritone Douglas McPhail in June 1938. They had a daughter, and were divorced in 1941; McPhail committed suicide in 1944. She married a second time in 1943, to Bill Roberts, who had been a singer for Tommy Dorsey. Betty Jaynes (actress) Betty Jaynes (born Betty