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Auction History Result 5p0323 TO HAVE & HAVE NOT style A 1/2sh 1944 best c/u of Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, the classic 1944 Howard Hawks World War II (WWII) romantic suspense melodrama ("Humphrey Bogart... with his kind of woman in a powerful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's most daring man-woman story!"; very loosely adapted from the classic story by Ernest Hemingway, "Screen Play by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner"; "If you want anything mister, ...just whistle!"; "It happens this way.."; "In love with his kind of woman!"; this was the movie where middle-aged Humphrey Bogart met 19 year old Lauren Bacall, and won her romantically, both on and off the screen) starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall (in her very first movie role!), Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, Dolores Moran, Marcel Dalio, and Walter Sande. Note that this movie was not very faithful to Ernest Hemingway's story. Just six years later, Warner Bros. remade the movie with John Garfield and Patricia Neal, and this time they were more faithful to the story. Finally, note that there is a story that has circulated for many decades that male singer Andy Williams dubbed Lauren Bacall's voice for her song in this movie! Many people say this is absolutely an urban legend, and that Williams did record the song, but Howard Hawks decided to go with Lauren Bacall's version instead, and Bacall herself said it was definitely her singing, but there is no stopping an urban legend! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this half-sheet, and that was 8 years ago, when it sold for $5,750! Also note that this poster has a large studio-issued corrective credits snipe glued over the entire credits area at lower right. ALL of the posters (not just the half-sheets) apparently were printed with credits one way, and then were quickly sniped by the studio before they were distributed. What was the change? In the printed poster, Howard Hawks' credit is around the same size as the actors, but in the snipe, his name is now FAR larger! This might have been the result of an error on the studio's part, or he might have had a contract that guaranteed him giant billing. In any event, it seems extremely likely that all posters have these snipes, unless of course, someone has a restorer remove it. Note that because this poster was paperbacked onto a thin paper backing, it can be sent rolled (however, it will be rolled with the image outward, because paperbacked posters should always be rolled that way, while linen posters are always rolled with the image inward), and it will likely need to be sent in a 6" tube, because rolling it more tightly might damage the poster. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster had pinholes and smudges around the edges and the right 1" was folded back at one time. It had small paper loss at the crossfold and some tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but with minimal restoration, and you can see signs of the above defects and the slight restoration of the above defects. Also, note that after the poster was backed, it acquired two tiny scratches in Bacall's hair causing surface paper loss and one tiny bit below Bogart's wrist. The poster can still be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or one might choose to have any level of additional restoration performed, but that will be the choice of the new owner. Learn More about condition grades 
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