Hemingway and Mary introduce to Spencer Tracy to the pleasures of Havana's Floridita bar in September 1955. The filming of The Old Man and the Sea had begun on the beach at Cojiman, just outside the city, but they failed to catch a fish as large as Santiago's.
New Year's Eve at the Floridita bar, Havana, 1951. At midnight, Gary Cooper ventures the traditional greeting: "Happy New Year, Ernesto" .
