Vintage 1950s
Movies
African Queen
The African Queen was released
December 23, 1951. It is a British-American adventure film adapted
from a 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. It was photographed in Technicolor. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who
won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his
only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
The African Queen was
selected for preservation in the United States National
Film Registry in 1994,
with the Library
of Congress deeming it "culturally, historically or
aesthetically significant".
In 1951, two of the world's most beloved — and highest-paid —
movie stars, Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart filmed in sweltering jungles
around the Belgian Congo (today is known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
spending seven weeks filming a WWI-era romantic-comedy-adventure film about a
hard-drinking riverboat captain, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), and his burgeoning
love affair with a prim Christian missionary, Rose Sayer (Hepburn).
The shoot
was often a grueling experience for the crew, particularly
Hepburn, who
suffered from dysentery caused by contaminated water. She refused to let it
affect her work and never missed a day of filming. Unlike Hepburn and much of
the crew, both Bogart and Huston remained healthy throughout the shoot.
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