Movie legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Rosalind Russell often sipped Martinis in their films. Members of the Rat Pack loved a good Martini.

“You are educating an audience,” Hopper added. “A dry martini is an acquired taste, but once you’ve acquired it, forget it you have to go to AA.” The CineVegas Film Festival concludes today.

By the mid-20th century, tastes in martini-drinking had turned decidedly toward the austere, and Noilly Prat responded by making a drier, martini-specific vermouth for the American market.

The celebrated recipe made The Knickerbocker the epicenter of the dry martini craze from 1907 to 1920, and drew luminaries like author F. Scott Fitzgerald and opera singer Enrico Caruso, according ...