Charles Boyer photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull 1931
by David Lee Guss
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Charles Boyer photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull 1931
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Lauren Bacall's next film after "To Have and Have Not" was "The Confidential Agent" based on a Graham Greene story set in London dealing with the Spanish civil war of the 1930's. Her co-star was Charles Boyer. Betty was disastrously miscast as a British aristocrat.
The reviews were withering with one saying that her performance was "like a phonograph record that has become stuck on a turntable." Another reviewer saying she was "extraordinary inept, might be a high school girl giving an impersonation of herself." And audiences howled at lines that were not meant to be funny.
For a time it looked like Bacall had her day in the sun as a star but her meteoric career was effectively over.
Warner Brothers decided to pull "The Big Sleep" out of the distribution pipeline and shoot some additional scenes enhancing the Bogart-Bacall magic. Some scenes were cut and others added to highlight her insolence.
The final version was released in August 1946 to rave notices, even though the plot at times is most confusing. Even author Raymond Chandler couldn't explain some of the plotting when confronted.
Shooting on the first version had begun in early October 1944.
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