Your hands in the starlight, your feet on the floor

[sovay]

It is pouring rain so heavily and so coldly that I am not touring bridges this morning: I want architecture, not pneumonia. Since I am awake, however, I plan to devote the day to books, cats, and movies, which I figure should be nearly as good for me as a lot of walking and engineering.

Please enjoy this really cute picture of Bacall and Bogart, reprising their roles from To Have and Have Not (1944) for Lux Radio Theater in 1946.

Comments

[sovay]

I am sorry that you didn't get to tour bridges, but I am glad you are not out in this. It is pissing in a truly ridiculous fashion.

Thank you. I have gotten that impression from looking out my window. There was a brief lull around ten-thirty when I wondered if I had made the wrong decision and then the rain froze.

Bogart shoulda played more middle-aged geeks.

Yes! I'm trying to think if I've ever seen him in a role with glasses outside of that one pseudo-nerdy scene in The Big Sleep (1946). Here, they could be playing the leads—one burlesque dancer, one absentminded professor—in Ball of Fire (1941).

[ethelmay]

The Big Sleep scene was one of the niftiest bits of acting I've ever seen. He reshaped his hat, and I think his walk, and if I'd blinked I would have thought for a second it was a different actor coming into the store.

[sovay]

He reshaped his hat, and I think his walk, and if I'd blinked I would have thought for a second it was a different actor coming into the store.

He lightens his voice, too, and does some nervous things with his hands, and I agree with you. I really think Bogart is underrated as an actor, he's such an icon. His body language is half his characterization in The Petrified Forest (1936).

[moon_custafer]

I’m also convinced that scene inspired Harrison Ford’s “I’m from the American Federation of Variety Artists” disguise in Blade Runner.

[sovay]

I’m also convinced that scene inspired Harrison Ford’s “I’m from the American Federation of Variety Artists” disguise in Blade Runner.

I have absolutely no reason not to believe that.

"Have you felt yourself to be exploited in any way?"

[moon_custafer]

“Hmmm?”

[ethelmay]

Yeah, but even before he starts talking, he looks like someone else. Really made me sit up.