(en) « Hawks's wife saw Lauren Bacall on the cover of a magazine and persuaded him to put her in the movies. » dans : « Biographie de Howard Hawks », sur IMDb.com
(en) « When Howard Hawks discovered Lauren Bacall, he gave her the choice to work with either Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. She was very tempted to work with Grant, but Hawks ended up casting her with Bogart in To Have and Have Not, and one of Hollywood's greatest romances was started. » dans : (en) « Anecdotes sur Le Port de l'angoisse », sur IMDb.com
(en) « Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love during production. Director Howard Hawks afterward said that it was actually Bacall's character Marie that Bogart had fallen for, "so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life." However, it has also been said that Hawks — who was something of a womanizer, and who had a fling with Dolores Moran during the shooting of the film — was jealous and frustrated that Bacall had fallen for Bogart and not for Hawks himself. » dans : (en) « Anecdotes sur Le Port de l'angoisse », sur IMDb.com
(en) « The only way she could "hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to the chest, and eyes up at Bogart. That stance accidentally became Bacall’s signature attitude on-screen, known as "The Look". » dans : (en) Matt Tyrnauer, « To Have and Have Not (page 2) », sur Vanity Fair.com,
(en) « To this day Bacall blames studio boss Jack Warner for hurting her career by forcing her to follow "To Have and Have Not" with a dog called "Confidential Agent" (1945). She played a spy, opposite Charles Boyer, and had to do a British accent, which she admits she did very badly. » dans : (en) Matt Tyrnauer, « To Have and Have Not (page 4) », sur Vanity Fair.com,
