Smoking; Casablanca, Now Voyager and None but the Brave.

Both my parents were smokers however I am a non smoker but find it interesting how smoking is portrayed in old films, I wonder if remade would directors change well known smoking scenes?

The most famous has to be the Now Voyager (1942) ending; Bette Davis' character Charlotte Vale is handed a lit cigarette from Jerry Durance (Paul Henreid). WOW!

In Casablanca (1942), Rick (Humphrey Bogart) decides to sell his café / nightclub to a man called Ferrari but instead of cash asks him for 100 cartons of American cigarettes.

Frank Sinatra made his directorial debit with the (1965) war film None but the Brave.

A platoon of Japanese soldiers are marooned on a  pacific island with no means of contacting the outside world. An American plane carrying US soldiers crashes on the island and a truce is agreed in which each group inhabits one side of the island. A Japanese soldier who is skilled at spear fishing leaves some of his catch on the beach, these are collected by a US soldier who leaves American cigarettes behind in exchange.  

There are a large selection of vintage sexist smoking adverts but this is my favourite.