From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman, and you're listening to good food.

Of all the gin joints and all the towns and all the world,

she walks into mind. What's that your plane?

Oh, stop it, you know what I want to hear.

No, don't.

You played it for her, you play it for me.

Well, I don't think I can remember.

If you can stand it, I can.

Play it.

Yes, most.

Whether it's Humphrey Bogart's French 75 in Casablanca, or Audrey Hepburn's Mississippi Punch in breakfast at Tiffany's or James Bond's Martini shaken out stirred of course old Hollywood movies have a way of making cocktails look like the apex of leisure and sophistication.

Journalists and historian had the mirrors is here to discuss the various depictions of on-screen sipping.

Hi Hadley.

Hi, thanks for having me.

You know, so much of my enjoyment of watching old movies are these moments of people, you know, making drinks, sipping drinks.

It just, there's something about the whole process about how people

hold their glasses, hold the bar shaker,

add ingredients. It just adds this whole other layer

of the reality that's being created in the movie.

When do cocktails show up on this screen in early cinema?

You know, it's really interesting.

There's this really cool lady named Cheryl Charming,

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