Humphrey Bogart is my favorite actor. He made some of my favorite movies – The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, and so many more. But the thing I always have to remember is that he spent more than a decade as a second-tier star. He played gangsters and heavies for a long time. He was often the third or fourth actor billed on a poster or in the credits before he became the star that we know and love.
He is exactly that in It All Came True. Originally he was third billed. He plays a gangster causing trouble for top-billed Ann Sheridan. But not long after this movie came out, Bogart did become a big star. In subsequent rereleases, suddenly Bogart was top billed. They even changed the opening credits for him.
Which is kind of dumb because this is Ann Sheridan’s movie through and through. It is an odd movie. Part of it is a fairly serious drama, but then they keep injecting magic tricks, show tunes, and vaudeville acts. That makes it less than a great movie, but it sure is fun. You can read my full review here.
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