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Best Performances of the Month July | 1950 | Lauren
To add accuracy to the film, an authentic turn-of-the-century cigarette maker was purchased as a prop.
Patricia Neal, who was involved in a three-year off-screen romance with Gary Cooper, very much wanted to play the Lauren Bacall role, but Warners refused to test her.
This was the last film in Lauren Bacall's seven-year contract with Warner Brothers.
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee was under the impression this film mirrored his great-grandfather's contributions to the Bull Durham tobacco industry, along with his rival James B. Duke, in post-Civil War Durham, NC. He even made a documentary called "Bright Leaves" (2003) about it.
Nita Talbot was discovered by Warner Bros. executives and given a movie contract because of her strong resemblance to Lauren Bacall. Talbot around this time was using the name Ginger Grey (Gray).
"Blacksmith: Say, don't I know you from some place? Brant Royle: I've never been there."
"Major Singleton: I'm afraid I don't believe in cigarettes, much less a machine for makin' them. It turns my stomach, sir, every time I have occasion to witness someone pokin' one of those vile concoctions into their face. I deal in cigars, sir. Nothing less."
