 Humphrey Bogart (qv) was originally chosen to play Harold Goff.  However, Ida Lupino (qv) had just finished shooting  _They Drive by Night (1940)_ (qv) and _High Sierra (1941)_ (qv) with  Bogart, and they had not gotten along. Lupino protested, and because  shed 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 (qv) asking, "When did Ida Lupino start casting  films at your studio?"