“Ernest Hemingway was conveniently dead when director Howard Hawks claimed to interviewers that he had told his pal, “I can make a picture out of your worst story.’’
Hawks transformed Hemingway’s short novel “To Have and Have Not’’ into a Caribbean “Casablanca,’’ starring Humphrey Bogart as a skipper who reluctantly becomes a hero during World War II, complete with Hoagie Carmichael as his piano-playing singer buddy.
It’s better remembered for Bogart’s sizzling chemistry with future wife Lauren Bacall, making her debut at 19 with suggestive lines like: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and . . . blow.’’
“To Have and Have Not’’ will show at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Museum of the Moving Image, kicking off a three-month retrospective featuring all 39 of Hawks’ surviving films.
36th Street and 37th Avenue, Astoria. Info: movingimage.us.