The husbands, of course, would remain behind on the steaming island to attend to business - setting raps, fishing, and hunting.They wear a hastily-thrown together weird assortment of borrowed clothes - George a #3 football jersey and Mary a long, loose-fitting bathrobe.Although Hepburn had a brilliant performance in this film, she was an unconventional, independent-spirited performer, and this was her last film for RKO - since she had been infamously labeled ""box-office poison"" through most of the 30s.BackgroundTo Have and Have Not(1944) was director Howard Hawks"" wartime adventure masterpiece - a minor film classic loosely based upon part of Ernest Hemingway""s 1937 novel of the same name.