"PUT YOUR LIPS TOGETHER AND BLOW."

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married May 21, 1945, just eleven days after his divorce from Mayo Methot. The wedding took place on his friend Louis Bromfield’s farm in Ohio; they then had to take the train back to Los Angeles, as both were due to report to work less than a week later. When Lauren Bacall was pregnant for the first time President Harry Truman bet Humphrey Bogart $20 the child would be a boy. After Stephen Bogart’s birth, Bogie sent the president a check and asked him to cash it, so the child would have...