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The son of a Manhattan surgeon and a magazine illustrator, Humphrey Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, sent to Phillips Academy in Andover in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Navy. While serving, he was wounded in the shelling of the Leviathan; the resulting partial paralysis caused his signature snarl and lisp.
From 1920 to 1922, he managed a stage company owned by family friend William S. Brady, performing a variety of tasks at Brady's film studio in New York. After this, he began regular stage performances. Alexander Woollcott described his acting in a 1922 play as "inadequate". In 1930, he got a contract with Fox and his feature film debut in a 10 minute short Broadway's Like That (1930), co-starring Ruth Etting and Joan Blondell. Fox released him after two years. After five more years of stage and minor film roles, he broke through with The Petrified Forest (1936); he got the part over Edward G. Robinson, only after the star, Leslie Howard, threatened to quit unless accompanied by his fellow actor from the Broadway production. The movie led to a long-term contract with Warner Bros. From 1936 to 1940, he appeared in 28 films, usually as a gangster, twice in Westerns. 1941 was his landmark year, first in High Sierra (1941) and then as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). These were followed by Casablanca (1942), and Key Largo (1948). In 1947, he joined Lauren Bacall and others protesting the witch hunts of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He also formed his own production company and the next year made The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). "Bogie" received the Best Actor Academy Award for The African Queen (1951) and nomination for Casablanca (1942) and as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954), a film made when he was already seriously ill. He died in his sleep at his Hollywood home following an operation for throat cancer. Birth Name: Humphrey DeForest Bogart
Nickname: Bogie Birth Date: December 25, 1899 Birth Place: New York, New York Death Date: January 14, 1957 Death Place: At his home in Holmby Hills, California Age at Death: 58 years old Burial Site: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California; ashes kept at the Garden of Memory Parents: Maude Humphrey and Belmont DeForest Bogart Married: Helen Menken (m. 1926 – d.1927), Mary Philips (m.1928 – d. 1937), Mayo Methot (m. 1938 – d. 1945), Betty Joan Perske a.k.a. Lauren Bacall (m.1945 – w.1957 ) Children: (Bacall) Stephen Humphrey and Leslie Howard Height: 5'8" Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Brown Hobbies: golf, sailing, chess DID YOU KNOW THAT...  Although he rarely participated in celebrity tournaments, Bogart was one of Hollywood’s better golfers. On many occasions, Bogart enjoyed catching a quick round of golf at Lakeside Golf Club in between filming at the nearby Warner Bros. studios.Bogart and Spencer Tracy first met on the set of Up the River, when both were newcomers to the film industry. The two became lifelong friends, and Tracy was one of the few people who was allowed to visit Bogart once he became gravely ill.During his marriage to Mayo Methot, Bogart bought a sailboat, which he lightheartedly named Sluggy after his hot-tempered wife.Newlyweds Bogart and Betty purchased a home at 2707 Benedict Canyon Road in Beverly Hills, where they accumulated an array of animals. Their pets included 14 chickens, eight ducks and a large dog.After marrying Betty, Bogart sold Sluggy and purchased a new 54-foot sailboat. He named the craft Santana.Bogart and Bacall’s son, Stephen, was named after Bogart’s character in To Have and Have Not. His daughter, Leslie, was named after friend and The Petrified Forest co-star, Leslie Howard.Betty put the gold whistle from To Have and Have Not, their first movie together, with Bogart when he was cremated.In 1999, the American Film Institute named Humphrey Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time.
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"You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.""The phrase 'movie star' is misused so much that it has no real meaning any more. Any little pinhead who makes one picture is called a star.... To be a star you have to drag your weight in the box office and be recognized wherever you go.""I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.""It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world.""The only point in making money is you can tell some big shot where to go.""The whole world is about three drinks behind.""Things are never so bad they can't be worse.""The best way to survive an Oscar is to never try to win another one. You've seen what happens to some Oscar winners. They spend the rest of their lives turning down scripts while searching for the great role to win another one. Hell, I hope I'm never even nominated again. It's meat-and-potato roles for me from now on." (quoted in 1951, following his Best Actor Academy Award win for The African Queen)"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.""Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally." (when asked if he followed any specific acting method)"I’m a professional. I've done pretty well, don’t you think? I've survived in a pretty rough business.""...when he [Arthur Hopkins] was getting ready to produce The Petrified Forest, he sent for me. When I dropped into his office, Robert E. Sherwood – who wrote the play and was a friend of mine – was there. Hopkins said to me, 'I've got a good role for you. A gangster role." (discussing how he was cast as Duke Mantee)"I didn't do anything I've never done before. But when the camera moves in on that Bergman's face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody look romantic." (on his captivating love scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca)"After me, he's the best." (joking about close friend, Spencer Tracy)"I went on the stage the first time as a gag. I'd been kidding Neil Hamilton about the soft life of an actor. 'Acting doesn't look very hard to me,' I'd said. The funny thing was that that was what I actually thought. The last night of the play, he dared me to go on in his place. I took the dare, and it was all a horrible fiasco. In one scene, an actor was supposed to be mad at me, and I thought he was really mad; he scared the hell out of me. It was the first time I had been face to face with actors at work. I didn't realize how convincing they could be. After that experience, I thought, ‘Never again.'""Hemingway tells me you’re not a good writer." (to author John Steinbeck, upon meeting him for the first time)Quotes About Humphrey Bogart... "He is the only man I have ever known who truly and completely belonged to himself..., His convictions about life, work and people were so strong they were unshakeable. Nothing – no one – could make him lower his standards, lessen his character…. He had the greatest gifts a man could have: respect for himself, for his craft; integrity about life as well as work." (actress and fourth wife Betty "Lauren" Bacall)"Bogart was quite alarming to meet, for the first time, with his sardonic humor and his snarl that passed for a smile. It took me a little while to realize that he had perfected an elaborate camouflage to cover up one of the kindest and most generous of hearts." (actor and close friend David Niven)"She [Betty Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought, it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage." (actress and The African Queen co-star, Katharine Hepburn)"Bogart is a first-class person with an obsessive compulsion to behave like a second-class person." (friend and owner of the popular restaurant Romanoff's, Mike "Prince" Romanoff)"Himself, he never took too seriously – his work, most seriously. He regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart, the star, with amused cynicism; Bogart, the actor, he held in deep respect." (producer/director John Huston)"Bogie was never wrong about people. If he thought a person was all right, the person was all right. And if he thought a person was a phony, the person was a phony." (friend and long time agent, Sam Jaffe)"I kissed him, but I never really knew him." (actress and Casablanca co-star Ingrid Bergman)"She [Betty Bacall] matched his insolence. Betty came along at exactly the right time for Bogie. He was mature and she was a kid, and I think he had a ball showing her what life was all about." (friend and actress Bette Davis)"Bogart thought of himself as Scaramouch, the mischievous scamp who sets off the fireworks, then nips out." (writer and producer Nunnally Johnson)
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