tccleland Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Can anyone tell me why, in To Have And Have Not, Lauren Bacall calls Humphrey Bogart's character "Steve", when his name is "Harry Morgan"? I have watched this film 100+ times and have never figured it out....Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 I think it comes from "stevedore." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 She made it up out of the blue from what I remember hearing while filming and they stuck with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 I thought Steve was the driver of the big Packard that went into the ocean off the end of the Lido Pier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Steve was the name of one of Walter Brennan's dead bees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 That is perplexing; it's right up there with: Why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants, yet Goofy does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 > {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > That is perplexing; it's right up there with: > > Why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants, yet Goofy does? According to the IMDb, scsu1975 is correct. Harry was nicknamed Steve, short for stevedore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Saw this reason too- Lauren Bacall's nickname in the film is 'Slim'. The film was directed by Howard Hawks and Slim and Steve are the nicknames Hawks and his wife had for one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1968B2 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Because, let's face it, Goofy's a Beau Brummel. Got the '50s floods style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianabat Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 And here I thought this was going to be a poll on who'd been stung by dead bees... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 > {quote:title=dianabat wrote:}{quote} > And here I thought this was going to be a poll on *who'd been stung by dead bees...* Truly, that was THE question of THaHN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTarantino Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Come to think of it, why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants? Sometimes Porky Pig didn't wear pants either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicalnovelty Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=dianabat wrote:}{quote} > > And here I thought this was going to be a poll on *who'd been stung by dead bees...* > > Truly, that was THE question of THaHN. > Are you saying it was a "bee-movie"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I just read in some trivia book that a very young Andy Williams dubbed Lauren Bacall's singing voice in films. Does anyone know if this is true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 *"I just read in some trivia book that a very young Andy Williams dubbed Lauren Bacall's singing voice in films. Does anyone know if this is true?"* - TikiSoo It looks like it is true - to a certain point. And depending on who you listen to. ------ Lauren Bacall - (Reprint of interview in Premiere Magazine, 1996) http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/premierebacall.htm *Is it true your singing voice was dubbed in To Have and Have Not by Andy Williams?* Supposedly he dubbed one note. But he didn't dub a whole song, because I know how many times I recorded those songs. You can just listen to it and know it's me. It's possible he dubbed one note, but I don't know which one. A higher one probably. ------- Andy Williams - (Interview in U.K. Newspaper, 2001) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/all-hail-the-emperor-of-easy-702674.html In Williams's mid-teens, the boys found work in Hollywood. Williams's first recording was backing Bing Crosby for "Swinging On A Star". Then, I prompt, you dubbed Lauren Bacall's singing voice in To Have And Have Not. Williams grimaces slightly. "I did, but I wish that had never been written, because she came out later with a book that said... Well, they eventually took me off the track because it didn't sound enough like her." It would've seemed strange, hearing your voice coming out of a woman's mouth. "But it really happened. I was at Warner Brothers being in a movie with my brothers - we were always two soldiers or something - and I went in to get permission from the head of the music department to go play baseball, because I'd done my schoolwork. His back was to me, and I called, 'Mr Chambers, I'd like to...' and he turned and said, 'That's the voice I've been looking for!'. I was 14, my voice was rather high for a man, but slightly low for a woman. So they took me over to a sound stage - huge screen, Lauren Bacall's face on it, she was beautiful. First movie she ever made. I looked up, and her lips were moving. They said, 'We'll start again, and you sing along'. "I think they used it in previews. But there was one line they dubbed in that she actually said: 'Who can tell?'" He sings the bar now, softly: "'Maybe it happened this way/ Maybe we really belong together but, after all/ How little we know... Who can tell?' She said the line she spoke didn't match. Bacall apparently didn't sing well enough to get her through the whole song, but they clipped single lines together and I assume that's what you hear now. Still, it makes me look as though I'm saying something that isn't true." ------- Kyle In Hollywood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 That post reminded me of "My Fair Lady" where ALL of Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed over by Marni Nixon. When I watched the restoration documentary of "My Fair Lady", they found the original recording of Audrey Hepburn. They played "Wouldn't it be Loverly" and there was nothing wrong with it at all, matter of fact I think she sang great. If the producer or director thinks that her voice doesn't have the "punch" they wanted, all I can say is that's why they have those controls on the mixer control board, the idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaney7 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 All I can say is if she looked great in black and white she must have been a knock out in real life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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