Humphrey Bogart was originally chosen to play Harold Goff. However,
Ida Lupino had just finished shooting
They Drive by Night (1940) and
High Sierra (1941) with Bogart, and they had not gotten along. Lupino protested, and because she'd had a bigger name than Bogart at the time, she got her way, forcing an angry Bogart to shoot off a telegram to
Jack L. Warner asking, "When did Ida Lupino start casting films at your studio?"
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