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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American
actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of
All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an
inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films
include The Petrified Forest (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces
(1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941),
Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure
of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African
Queen (1951) (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), The Caine Mutiny
(1954), Sabrina (1954), We're No Angels (1955), and The Left Hand of God. (1955)
Altogether, he appeared in 75 feature motion pictures.
Though he started his career as Broadway stage player and B-movie actor during the
1920s and 1930s, Bogart's later accomplishments have made him a worldwide icon.
French actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, were deeply influenced by his work and
image, while India’s great national movie star, Ashok Kumar, listed Bogart as a
major influence on his "natural" acting style. In the United States, Bogart is
remembered in one of Woody Allen’s comic movies, Play It Again, Sam, which relates
the story of a young man obsessed by his persona. In 1997, the United States Postal
Service featured Bogart in its "Legends of Hollywood" series, and Entertainment
Weekly magazine has named Bogart the number one movie legend of all time.
 Bogart and
Bacall
Only Bogart's fourth marriage, to Lauren Bacall ("Baby"), was a happy one. They met
while filming To Have and Have Not. The director, Howard Hawks, once commented:
"When two people are falling in love with each other, they're not tough to get
along with, I can tell you that. Bogie was marvelous. I said, 'You've got to help,'
and of course after a few days he really began to get interested in the girl. That
made him help more." Hawks at some point began to disapprove of the pair. He fell
for Bacall as well, and wanted her to feel the same way (although he was married).
Out of jealousy, he said of Bacall: "She had to keep practicing for six to eight
months to keep that low voice. Now, it's perfectly natural. And the funny thing is
that Bogie fell in love with the character she played, so she had to keep playing
it the rest of her life." They were married on May 21, 1945 in Lucas, Ohio, at
Malabar Farm, the country home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield,
who was a close friend of Bogart's. The wedding was held in the Big House.
Bogart and Bacall's relationship is at the heart of the film noir masterpiece The
Big Sleep. Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: "Bogart can be tough
without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone
of contempt."
Bacall allowed Bogart lots of weekend time on his boat. She got seasick, and Bogart
said, "The trouble with having dames on board is you can't pee over the side."
Bogart would frequently sail to Catalina with friends or set some lobster
traps.
Bacall wrote of Bogart: "You had to stay awake married to him. Every time I thought
I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict
his reactions, no matter how well I knew him."
Bogart and Bacall moved into a $160,000 white brick mansion in Holmby Hills, an
exclusive neighborhood between Beverly Hills and Bel-Air. Bogart and Bacall had two
Jaguar cars, and three blooded Boxer dogs. Bogart said "We moved where all the
creeps live." But he liked some of his neighbors, especially Judy Garland.
On 6 Jan 1949, Lauren Bacall gave birth to a son, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, making
Bogart a father at 49. He had had months to absorb the news and even had his own
baby shower. (Frank Sinatra brought him baby rattles.) On 23 Aug 1952, they had
their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart (a girl named after British actor Leslie
Howard, who had been killed in World War II).
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