


Cup of coffee without cream Ninotchka 1939

Fabulous European Vacation 1985

with Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut (won his only Academy Award) and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer, from The African Queen 1951 film directed by John Huston.
The two no.1 AFI's "The 50 greatest american screen legends" for this film were paid as follows: Bogart $125,000 + 30% of gross; Hepburn $130,000 + 10% of profits.
The boat used as the African Queen is actually the 35-foot L.S. Livingston, which had been a working diesel boat for 40 years; the steam engine was a prop and the real diesel engine was hidden under stacked crates of gin and other cargo. Florida attorney and Humphrey Bogart enthusiast Jim Hendricks Sr. purchased the boat in 1982 in Key Largo, Florida.
Scenes on the boat were filmed using a large raft with a mockup of the boat on top. Sections of the boat set could be removed to make room for the large Technicolor camera. This proved hazardous on one occasion when the boat's boiler, a heavy copper replica, almost fell on Katharine Hepburn; it was not secured to the deck because it also had to be moved to accommodate the camera.
The African Queen opened on December 26, 1951, at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills in time to qualify for the 24th Academy Awards. The film opened in New York City on February 20, 1952, at the Capitol Theatre.
Much of the film was shot on location in Uganda and the Congo in Africa. Humphrey Bogart later bragged that he and Huston were the only members of the cast and crew who escaped illness, which he credited to having drunk whiskey on location rather than the local water.
About half of the film was shot in the UK; the scenes in which Bogart and Hepburn are seen in the water were all shot in studio tanks at Isleworth Studios, Middlesex. These scenes were considered too dangerous to shoot in Africa.