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Hollywood Double Take
Seven Great Hollywood Double Acts
Continuing my theme on the cinema for this month, this time I want to talk about great film partnerships.
Sometimes actors perform with one another of their own accord and some are thrown together, and their partnership is so good that they change movie history. No matter how big one of the actors is when people think of a certain film they will always think of the two together.
Below are seven great double acts that have brought joy to the movies and our lives in their collaborations.
1. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Bogart and Bacall made four movies together in the 1940s starting with To Have and Have Not (1944) a romantic/adventure war film. Movie buffs will remember Bacall’s famous line to Bogart.
“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
They then went on to make The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). I think I first saw them together in The Big Sleep which is a great film noir based on Raymond Chandler’s novel. Key Largo is also another excellent tense crime drama starring Edward G. Robinson.
