Besides the traditional creamsickle are the creamsickle ice creams available. One place that serves those is Sun Groves in Safety Harbor. Besides being able to purchase gifts of citrus and shipping boxes of citrus around the world, they also have a swirled creamsickle ice cream in a cone to cool off the many hot days in Florida.
Zuber and Trilby dig in to the French treat to celebrate National Filet Mignon Day!
Thee are many places around Florida to find filet mignon. Le Cog au Vin in south Orange County has been a tradition of serving French cuisine for 38 years.
Swampy’s Florida is sad to learn of the death of Lauren Bacall. She was an incredible beauty that portrayed a steel will in most all of her characters from her ‘Key Largo’ Nora Temple character to Margaret Kramer in ‘My Fellow Americans’. Apparently she led her life in the same strong willed way.
In Key Largo, Bacall stars with her husband, at the time, Humphrey Bogart in a film written and directed by John Huston. It’s said Huston and a co-writer parked them selves in a restaurant/ bar in the Keys and produced the script. The film, though, was not produced in Key Largo but on a set in Hollywood. Only background shots were filmed in the Keys without the star studded cast of Bacall, Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, Clare Trevor and Jay Silverheels (Tonto), who played a wayward Seminole Indian.
Below are stills and promotional images from the film.
Below are shots of the film in production in Hollywood.
Below is a shot on the set is Bogart, director John Huston and Bacall.
The only other film Lauren Bacall had a connection with Florida was Howard Hawk’s ‘To Have and Have Not’. The Hemingway book was about the main character running between the Keys and Cuba. However, Hawks decided to redirect the story to Martinique during WWII with main character, Morgan, dealing with Nazis.