Bogie and Bacall, To Have or Have NotBogart Classics To Air on TCM Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner is April’s guest programmer on TCM. Hefner has chosen an evening of movie entertainment focusing exclusively on Humphrey Bogart films from the 1940s and comments on the films from his Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, where Bogart once socialized. According to some genealogists, Hefner is a ninth cousin once removed of Bogart. The Bogart films air on April 7, 2005 on TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
Hefner’s appearance will come two days before his birthday (April 9, 1926). Hefner’s first Playboy Club, which operated in Chicago from 1960 to 1986, was said to have been inspired in part by Bogart's “Cafe Americain” in the movie Casablanca (1942, 8 p.m.). Hefner contributed funds for the restoration of the original release print of another Bogart classic, The Big Sleep (1946, 2 a.m.), co-starring Lauren Bacall. His other Bogart picks are The Maltese Falcon (1941, 12 a.m.), with the star in a legendary turn as private eye Sam Spade; To Have And Have Not (1944, 10 p.m.), Bogart’s first film with Bacall (the now legendary "whistle" line is in this one); and Dark Passage (1947, 4 a.m.), No. 3 in the Bogart/Bacall series of six movies. All times eastern. www.turnerclassicmovies.com.
Bogie and Bacall, To Have or Have Not