Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (1945)
When actor Humphrey Bogart fell for Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not, he was 25 years her senior—not to mention married at the time. But despite these road bumps, their affair blossomed into of the most legendary romances in Hollywood. Since Bogart was married at the time, the two were forced to meet up in secret.
Married American actors Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart cut the cake at their wedding. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images
This meant late-night rendezvous in Bogart’s car, meeting up at the golf club, and making sure they had time for each other during breaks in shooting. They even called themselves “Slim” and “Steve,” the same nicknames that their characters had in To Have and Have Not. Bacall was right when she wrote in her 1985 memoir that “No one has written a romance better than we lived it.”