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Humphrey Bogart and Mayo Methot arrive at Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the 16th Academy Awards in March 1944. Bogart was a Best Actor Nominee for CASABLANCA (1942). #Oscars

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Screenland magazine, June 1945

For context, Humphrey Bogart was born in 1899, Barbara Stanwyck was born in 1907, and Lauren Bacall was born in 1924. Famously, Bacall was only 19 years old when she and 44-year-old Bogart met and fell in love while filming To Have and Have Not (1944).

Bogie & Bacall on their wedding day, May 21 1945 (so indeed they were married by the June 1945 issue!).

Stanwyck & Bogart together in The Two Mrs Carrolls (1947). The Two Mrs Carrolls was indeed filmed in 1945, but Warner Brothers witheld its release for 2 years. The reasons for the delay are debated, with two theories being (a) the plotline was too similar to the recently released Gaslight (1944) or (b) the studio hoped Bogart would become more popular in the intervening years so that his popularity could carry a film they considered awful. Maybe Barbara's comments didn't help ;)