“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and … blow.” Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 film noir movie To Have and to Have Not.
That 1944 line by Lauren Bacall replaced the previous sexist line in movies from Mae West.
“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” Mae West to Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Though from the same movie there was this much better line.
“Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” Mae West
The “Hayes Code” which put profound censorship into the movies was not enforced until 1934. So that last line would not have made it until The Code was tossed in 1968.
Hemmingway, my question here is what was it in 1944 that had the movie audience so taken with that Lauran Bacall line. Anyone old enough to remember that?