* 25.12.1899, New York (City), USA † 14.01.1957, Los Angeles, USASchauspieler * ab 1922 Schauspieler auf verschiedenen Bühnen - erster Auftritt am Broadway in Drifting * 1930 Filmdebüt * 1930-31 unter Vertrag bei Fox * bis 1935 spielt kleine Filmrollen bei mehreren Studios * 1936 erster Erfolg in The Petrified Forest (Wiederholung seiner letzten Theaterrolle am Broadway, 1935) - erhält Langzeitvertrag bei Warner Bros. * 1941 steigt zum Star mit High Sierra und The Maltese Falcon auf * 1942 spielt die männliche Hauptrolle im Kultfilm Casablanca * 1944 erster - von vier - gemeinsamer Film mit Lauren Bacall (4. Ehefrau, 1945-57) * 1947 Gründung der Produktionsfirma Santana Pictures * März 1956 unterzieht sich einer Speiseröhrenkrebsoperation - stirbt mit 57 Jahren an Folgen dieser Erkrankung * 1999 wird vom American Film Institute zum "größten männlichen amerikanischen Filmstar aller Zeiten" gekürt
"I always felt sorry for him - sorry that he had imposed upon himself
the character with which he had become identified." Edward G. Robinson
"Wir [Bogart und ich] haben mindestens 10 Filme zusammen gemacht. Er war immer der rivalisierende Gangster. Bevor er ein Star wurde, schossen wir gewöhnlich aufeinander. Nur weil ich der Star war, starb er, während ich auf ihn schoss. Ich machte dann noch eine Rolle weiter und starb am Ende auch." Edward G. Robinson
Humphrey Bogart gehört zu den wenigen Hollywood-Legenden, die bis heute nichts von ihrer Wirkung verloren haben. Mit seiner Darstellung des Privatdetektivs Philip Marlowe schuf Bogart den klassischen Helden der 'schwarzen Serie' - den zynischen Individualisten, der nur seiner eigenen Moral verpflichtet ist. Herzstück der Bogartschen Legende aber ist die Rolle des Barbesitzers Rick Blaine in dem 1942 entstandenen Kultfilm 'Casablanca', in der 'Berufszyniker' zum Schluss Herz zeigt. Seine Schauspielerliebe galt den brüchigen Charakteren, er hätte sie gern weiter gespielt. Am 14.1.1957 erlag Oscar-Preisträger Humphrey Bogart im Alter von 57 Jahren einem Krebsleiden. [MDR, Januar 2002]
# Up the River (1930-USA; R: John Ford, B: Maurine Watkins, K: Joseph H. August, D: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, HB-Steve) 92m-Komödie
# Body and Soul (1930/31-USA; R: Alfred Santell, B: Jules Furthman, K: Glen MacWilliams, D: Charles Farrell, Elissa Landi, HB-Jim Watson) 82m-Drama
# Bad Sister (1930/31-USA; R: Hobart Henley, B: Raymond L. Schrock, Tom Reed; Edwin H. Knopf, K: Karl Freund, D: Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox / HB-Valentine Corliss) 71m-Drama (Roman von Booth Tarkington)
# A Holy Terror (1931-USA; R: Irving Cummings, B: Alfred A. Cohn, K: George Schneiderman, D: George O'Brien, Sally Eilers / HB-Steve Nash) 53m-Western (Roman von Max Brand)
# Love Affair (1931/32-USA; R: Thornton Freeland, B: Jo Swerling; Dorothy Howell, K: Ted Tetzlaff, D: Dorothy Mackaill, HB-Jim Leonard) 68m-Liebesdrama
# Big City Blues (1932-USA; R: Mervyn LeRoy, B: Ward Morehouse, Lillie Hayward, K: James Van Trees, D: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden / HB-Adkins) 65m-Tragikomödie > uncredited appearance
# Three on a Match (1932-USA; R: Mervyn LeRoy, B: Lucien Hubbard, K: Sol Polito, D: Joan Blondell, Warren William / HB-Harve) 64m-Melodram
# Midnight (1933-USA; R+[B]: Chester Erskine, K: William O. Steiner, George Webber, D: Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie / HB-Gar Boni) 80m-Mystery
# The Petrified Forest (Der versteinerte Wald, 1935-USA; R: Archie L. Mayo, B: Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves, K: Sol Polito, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis / HB-Duke Mantee) 83m-Krimimelodram
# Bullets or Ballots (Wem gehört die Stadt?, 1936-USA * William Keighley ... Nick "Bugs" Fenner) (3606)
# Two against the World (Zwei gegen die Welt, 1936-USA; R: William McGann, B: Michael Jacoby, K: Sid/ney Hickox, D: HB-Sherry Scott, Beverly Roberts) 64m-Drama
# China Clipper (1936-USA; R: Ray Enright, B: Frank Wead, K: Arthur Edeson, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Pat O'Brien, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander, HB-Hap Stuart) 88m-Drama
# Isle of Fury (1936-USA; R: Frank McDonald, B: Robert Hardy Andrews, William Jacobs, K: Frank B. Good, D: HB-Valentine [Val] Stevens, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods) 60m-Abenteuer (Roman von W. Somerset Maugham)
# The Great O'Malley (Ordnung ist das halbe Leben, 1936-USA; R: William Dieterle, B: Milton Krims, Tom Reed, K: Ernest Haller, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, HB-John Phillips) 71m-Melodram
# Black Legion (Geheimbund "Schwarze Legion", 1936-USA; R: Archie L. Mayo, B: Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines, K: George Barnes, D: HB-Frank Taylor, Dick Foran) 83m-Sozialdrama
# San Quentin (1936-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Peter Milne, Humphrey Cobb, K: Sid/ney Hickox, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Pat O'Brien, HB-Joe [Red] Kennedy, Ann Sheridan) 70m-Drama
# Marked Woman (Mord im Nachtclub, 1936/37-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel, K: George Barnes, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Bette Davis, HB-David Graham) 96m-Krimidrama
# Kid Galahad (Kid Galahad, 1937-USA * Michael Curtiz ... Turkey Morgan) (Fortsetzungsroman von Francis Wallace) (01-?; 3705)
# Dead End (Sackgasse, 1937-USA; R: William Wyler, B: Lillian Hellman, K: Gregg Toland, ML: Alfred Newman, D: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, HB-Baby Face Martin) 93m-Krimidrama (05-07; 3708)
# Stand-In (Mr. Dodd geht nach Hollywood, 1937-USA; R: Tay Garnett, B: Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, K: Charles G. Clarke, ML: Heinz Roemheld, D: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, HB-Douglas Quintain) 91m-Komödie (Roman von Clarence Budington Kelland)
# Swing Your Lady (1937-USA; R: Ray Enright, B: Joseph Schrank, Maurice Leo, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: HB-Ed Hatch, Frank McHugh, Louise Fazenda) 79m-Komödie
# Men Are Such Fools (1937/38-USA; R: Busby Berkeley, B: Norman Reilly Raine, Horace Jackson, K: Sid/ney Hickox, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, HB-Harry Galleon) 69m-Liebesdrama (Roman von Faith Baldwin)
# Crime School (Schule des Verbrechens, 1938-USA; R: Lewis Seiler, B: Crane Wilbur, Vincent Sherman, K: Arthur L. Todd, M: Max Steiner, D: HB-Mark Braden, Gale Page) 85m-Drama
# The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Das Doppelleben des Dr. Clitterhouse, 1938-USA; R: Anatole Litvak, B: John Wexley, John Huston, K: Tony Gaudio, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, HB-"Rocks" Valentine) 87m-Gangsterkomödie
# Racket Busters (1938-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Robert Rossen, Leonardo Bercovici, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: HB-John Martin, George Brent, Gloria Dickson) 71m-Krimidrama
# King of the Underworld (1938-USA; R: Lewis Seiler, B: George Bricker, Vincent Sherman, K: Sid/ney Hickox, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: HB-Joe Gurney, Kay Francis) 69m-Krimidrama
# Angels with Dirty Faces (Chicago, 1938-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: John Wexley, Warren Duff, K: Sol Polito, M: Max Steiner, D: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, HB-James Frazier, Ann Sheridan) 95/7m-Gangstermelodram
# You Can't Get Away with Murder (1938-USA; R: Lewis Seiler, B: Robert Buckner, Don Ryan, Kenneth Gamet, K: Sol Polito, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: HB-Frank Wilson, Gale Page, Billy Halop) 78m-Krimidrama
# The Oklahoma Kid (Oklahoma Kid, 1938-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Warren Duff, Robert Buckner, Edward E. Paramore, Jr, K: James Wong Howe, M: Max Steiner, D: James Cagney, HB-Whip McCord, Rosemary Lane)* 80m-Western
# Dark Victory (Opfer einer großen Liebe, 1938-USA; R: Edmund Goulding, B: Casey Robinson, K: Ernest Haller, M: Max Steiner, D: Bette Davis, George Brent, HB-Michael O'Leary) 106m-Melodram
# The Return of Dr X (Das zweite Leben des Dr. X, 1939-USA; R: Vincent Sherman, B: Lee Katz, K: Sid/ney Hickox, M: Bernhard Kaun, D: Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, HB-Marshall) 62m-Horror (Roman von William J. Makin) (05-?)
# The Roaring Twenties (Die wilden Zwanziger, 1939-USA; R: Raoul Walsh, B: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Rossen, K: Ernest Haller, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, HB-George Hally) 104m-Gangstermelodram
# Invisible Stripes (Zwölf Monate Bewährungsfrist, 1939-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Warren Duff, K: Ernest Haller, M: Heinz Roemheld, D: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, HB-Chuck Martin) 82m-Krimidrama (Buch von Lewis E. Lawes)
# Virginia City (Goldschmuggel nach Virginia, 1939-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Robert Buckner, K: Sol Polito, M: Max Steiner, D: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, HB-John Murrell) 121m-Western
# It All Came True (Ein Nachtclub für Sarah Jane, 1939/40-USA * Lewis Seiler ... Grasselli/Chips Maguire) (Kurzgeschichte von Louis Bromfield) (11-?; 4004)
# Brother Orchid (Orchid, der Gangsterbruder, 1940-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: Earl Baldwin, K: Tony Gaudio, M: Heinz Roemheld, D: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, HB-Jack Buck) 91m-Krimikomödie
# They Drive by Night (Nachts unterwegs, 1940-USA; R: Raoul Walsh, B: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, HB-Paul Fabrini) 93m-Krimimelodram (Roman von A.I. Bezzerides)
# High Sierra (Entscheidung in der Sierra, 1940-USA; R: Raoul Walsh, B: John Huston, W.R. Burnett, K: Tony Gaudio, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: Ida Lupino, HB-Roy Earle) 100m-Gangsterdrama (Roman von W.R. Burnett)
# The Wagons Roll at Night (Von Stadt zu Stadt, 1940-USA; R: Ray Enright, B: Fred Niblo, Jr, Barry Trivers, K: Sid/ney Hickox, M: Heinz Roemheld, D: HB-Nick Coster, Sylvia Sidney) 84m-Zirkusmelodram
# The Maltese Falcon (Die Spur des Falken, 1941-USA; R+B: John Huston, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: HB-Sam Spade, Mary Astor) 100m-Krimi (Roman von Dashiell Hammett)
# All through the Night (Agenten der Nacht, 1941-USA * Vincent Sherman ... Gloves Donahue) (4201)
# The Big Shot (Der große Gangster, 1942-USA * Lewis Seiler ... Joseph "Duke" Berne) (01-02; 4206)
# Across the Pacific (Abenteuer in Panama, 1942-USA; R: John Huston, B: Richard Macaulay, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: HB-Rick Leland, Mary Astor) 95/7m-Spionagethriller
# Casablanca (Casablanca, 1942-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, K: Arthur Edeson, M: Max Steiner, D: HB-Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid) 102m-Melodram
# Action in the North Atlantic (Einsatz im Nordatlantik, 1942-USA; R: Lloyd Bacon, B: John Howard Lawson; A.I. Bezzerides, W.R. Burnett, K: Ted McCord, M: Adolph Deutsch, D: HB-Joe Rossi, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon) 126m-Kriegsabenteuer
# Thank Your Lucky Stars (1942/43-USA; R: David Butler, B: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, James V. Kern, K: Arthur Edeson, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: HB-er selbst, Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith) 127m-Musikkomödie
# Sahara (Sahara, 1943-USA; R: Zoltan Korda, B: John Howard Lawson, Zoltan Korda; James O'Hanlon, K: Rudolph Mate, M: Miklos Rozsa, D: HB-Sergeant Joe Gunn, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges) 97m-Kriegsdrama
# Conflict (Konflikt, 1943-USA; R: Curtis Bernhardt, B: Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor, K: Merritt B. Gerstad, M: Frederick Hollander, D: HB-Richard Mason, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet) 86m-Krimidrama
# Passage to Marseille (Fahrkarte nach Marseille, 1943-USA; R: Michael Curtiz, B: Casey Robinson, Jack Moffitt, K: James Wong Howe, M: Max Steiner, D: HB-Jean Matrac, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan) 110m-Kriegsaction (Roman von Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall)
# To Have and Have Not (Haben und Nichthaben, 1944-USA; R: Howard Hawks, B: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, K: Sid/ney Hickox, ML: Leo F. Forbstein, D: HB-Harry Morgan, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall) 100m-Abenteuer (Roman von Ernest Hemingway)
# The Big Sleep (Tote schlafen fest, 1944/45-USA; R: Howard Hawks, B: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, K: Sid/ney Hickox, M: Max Steiner, D: HB-Philip Marlowe, Lauren Bacall) 114m-Krimi (Roman von Raymond Chandler)
# The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Die zwei Mrs. Carrolls, 1945-USA * Peter Godfrey ... Geoffrey Carroll) (4705)
# Dead Reckoning (Späte Sühne, 1946-USA; R: John Cromwell, B: Oliver H.P. Garrett, Steve Fisher; Allen Rivkin, K: Leo Tover, M: Marlin Skiles, D: HB-Warren "Rip" Murdock, Lizabeth Scott) 100m-Krimi
# Dark Passage (Die schwarze Natter, 1946/47-USA; R+B: Delmer Daves, K: Sid/ney Hickox, M: Franz Waxman, D: HB-Vincent Parry, Lauren Bacall) 106m-Krimi (Roman von David Goodis)
# The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Der Schatz der Sierra Madre, 1947-USA * John Huston ... Dobbs) (Roman von B. Traven) (4801)
# Key Largo (Hafen des Lasters, 1947/48-USA * John Huston ... Frank McCloud) (Bühnenstück von Maxwell Anderson) (12-03; 4807)
# Knock on Any Door (Vor verschlossenen Türen, 1948-USA; R: Nicholas Ray, B: Daniel Taradash, John Monks, Jr, K: Burnett Guffey, M: George Antheil, D: HB-Andrew Martin, John Derek) 100m-Drama (Roman von Willard Motley)
# Tokyo Joe (Tokio-Joe, 1949-USA; R: Stuart Heisler, B: Cyril Hume, Bertram Millhauser; Walter Doniger, K: Charles Lawton, Jr, M: George Antheil, D: HB-Joe Barrett, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly) 88m-Abenteuer
# Chain Lightning (Des Teufels Pilot, 1949-USA * Stuart Heisler ... Matt Brennan) (04?05-07; 5002)
# In a Lonely Place (Ein einsamer Ort, 1949-USA * Nicholas Ray ... Dixon Steele) (Roman von Dorothy B. Hughes) (10-12; 5005)
# The Enforcer (Der Tiger, 1950-USA * Bretaigne Windust ... Martin Ferguson) (07-09; 5102)
# Sirocco (Sirocco - Zwischen Kairo und Damaskus, 1950-USA; R: Curtis Bernhardt, B: A.I. Bezzerides, Hans Jacoby, K: Burnett Guffey, M: George Antheil, D: HB-Harry Smith, Marta Toren) 98m-Abenteuer (Roman von Joseph Kessel)
# The African Queen (African Queen, 1951-GB/USA * John Huston ... Charlie Allnut) (Roman von C.S. Forester) (05-08; 5112)
# Deadline - U.S.A. (Die Maske runter, 1951-USA; R+B: Richard Brooks, K: Milton Krasner, M: Cyril J. Mockridge, D: HB-Ed Hutcheson, Ethel Barrymore) 87m-Drama
# Battle Circus (Arzt im Zwielicht, 1952-USA; R+B: Richard Brooks, K: John Alton, M: Lennie Hayton, D: HB-Jed Webbe, June Allyson) 90m-Kriegsromanze (07-09)
# Beat the Devil (Schach dem Teufel, 1953-GB; R: John Huston, B: Truman Capote, John Huston, K: Oswald Morris, M: Franco Mannino, D: HB-Billy Dannreuther, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida) 100m-Abenteuerkomödie (Roman von James Helvick=Claud Cockburn) (01-?; 5311)
# The Caine Mutiny (Die Caine war ihr Schicksal, 1953-USA; R: Edward Dmytryk, B: Stanley Roberts; Michael Blankfort, K: Franz Planer, M: Max Steiner, D: HB-Philip Francis Queeg, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray) 125m-Drama (Roman von Herman Wouk)
# Sabrina (Sabrina, 1953-USA; R: Billy Wilder, B: Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman, K: Charles Lang, M: Frederick Hollander, D: HB-Linus Larrabee, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden) 113m-Liebeskomödie
# The Barefoot Contessa (Die barfüßige Gräfin, 1954-USA; R+B: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, K: Jack Cardiff, M: Mario Nascimbene, D: HB-Harry Dawes, Ava Gardner) 128m-Melodram
# We're No Angels (Wir sind keine Engel, 1954-USA * Michael Curtiz ... Joseph) (Bühnenstück von Albert Husson) (06-08; 5507)
# The Desperate Hours (An einem Tag wie jeder andere, 1954/55-USA * William Wyler ... Glenn Griffin) (Roman, 1954 & Bühnenstück von Joseph Hayes) (10-01; 5510)
# The Left Hand of God (Die linke Hand Gottes, 1955-USA; R: Edward Dmytryk, B: Alfred Hayes, K: Franz Planer, M: Victor Young, D: HB-Jim Carmody, Gene Tierney) 87m-Abenteuer (Roman von William E. Barrett)
# The Harder They Fall (Schmutziger Lorbeer, 1955-USA; R: Mark Robson, B: Philip Yordan, K: Burnett Guffey, M: Hugo Friedhofer, D: HB-Eddie Willis, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling) 109m-Sportfilm (Roman von Budd Schulberg)
+ Humphrey Bogart: seine Filme, sein Leben. München: Heyne, 1997
> Jonathan Coe: Humphrey Bogart: Take It and Like It. London: Bloomsbury, 1991
+ Humphrey Bogart: As Time Goes By; eine Bildbiographie. München: Heyne, 1991
> Marie Cahill: Humphrey Bogart: A Hollywood Portrait. New York: Smithmark, 1992
> Peter Körte: Humphrey Bogart – mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1992
> Ezra Goodman: Humphrey Bogart: Porträt einer Kinolegende. München: Heyne, 1993
> Andrea Thain, Michael O. Huebner: Humphrey Bogart - Der Mann hinter der Maske - Eine Biographie. Hamburg: Wunderlich/Rowohlt, 1996
More than forty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains a symbol of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a popular culture icon. His legacy has impacted American popular culture beyond the scope of American film history. His image graces buttons, greeting cards, and postal cards and he has been the subject of plays, films, novels, and poems. This work presents a precise biography of Bogart and examines his place in American popular culture. Scholarly and substantive articles written about Bogart's life, films, and career are analyzed and summarized. Essays and new and previously published interviews present insightful ideas by and about Bogart. Film and popular culture scholars and Humphrey Bogart enthusiasts alike will appreciate the extensive and thorough listing of articles and books about Bogart and his career. As a guide to further research, the author has provided a filmography, discography, and videography and has documented theater listings, radio and television appearances, and a directory of Bogart websites. This extensive review of Bogart and his career helps to define his success within an American cultural context. > xi, 344 p. : ill.
Jeffrey Meyers: Bogart: A Life in Hollywood. New York: Fromm International, 1999Humphrey Bogart was not just the most popular American actor of the twentieth century but also a larger-than-life icon, whose reputation and influence have, if anything, only grown since his death. Bogart dominated the golden years of Hollywood with his stoic tough-guy image. But behind Bogey the hard-boiled cult hero was a consummate actor, a courageous artist who stood up to tyrannical studio bosses and defied the heavy hand of McCarthyism. The scion of a socially prominent New York family, Bogart played dozens of roles in Broadway plays until he broke through to film stardom after he teamed up with John Huston in The Maltese Falcon and then took his place in the Hollywood firmament with the legendary acting ensemble of Casablanca. He lived a tempestuous private life off the screen, but carefully guarded his privacy from the prying eyes of the press. Witty, cynical, and caustic, Bogart embodied the Hemingwayesque tough hero who insists on authenticity and on a strict code of honor. Bogart's reputation is even higher today than during his lifetime. Now, for the first time, he has been addressed by a master biographer. > x, 369 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Forty years after his death Humphrey Bogart is alive and well in the hearts and minds of his fans. Bogart starred in such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Big Sleep , and The African Queen . The Ultimate Bogie fully explores the myths, facts, and unique qualities of Bogart. With a mixture of lists, chronologies, humorous anecdotes, challenging trivia, test-your-knowledge quizzes, controversial quotes from and about Bogie, and a complete bibliography and filmography, The Ultimate Bogie reveals everything about the wonderful world of Humphrey Bogart. > 288 p.
Darwin Porter: The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart: The Early Years (1899-1931). New York: Georgia Literary Association / London: Turnaround, 2003This biography shatters myths with a controversial closeup of Bogart at the debut of his career, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, and pre-African Queen, revealing for the first time what was under the trench coat of history's most famous male movie star. Focusing on those mysterious early years when Bogart, like dozens of other American actors, was making the transition from Broadway to the early Talkies in Hollywood, it's loaded with anecdotes and insights about those wild, Pre-Code days in anything goes Hollywood that required years of research to uncover. Darwin Porter uncovers scandals within the entertainment industry of the 1920s and 1930s, when publicists from the movie studios deliberately twisted and suppressed inconvenient details about the lives of their emerging stars. * Until recently, very little was known about the early life of Hollywood's most famous movie star. Here, compiled from extensive eyewitness interviews, Darwin Porter delves deep into the star's hot, horny formative years on Broadway and in early Talkie Hollywood. Looking at everything from his affairs with such starlets as Marlene Dietrich and Bette Davis, to his AWOL escapades in the army, to his compulsive brushes with gangsters, prostitutes and blackmailers, this is the untold story of Hollywood's hottest hunk in history. > 527 p. : ill.
James Ursini: Humphrey Bogart. Köln: Taschen, 2007Humphrey Bogart is a legend and an icon whose magic has not dissipated with time. The wounded tough guy image Bogart molded over the decades of his career still resonates. There is a truth to this image; audiences sense that the world-weariness, the angst, and the vulnerability, which made him an icon of noir as well, were rooted somehow in reality. Even if the spectator knew nothing about his personal life, they believed and still do believe in his performances in cinema classics like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, and The African Queen. | Humphrey Bogart ist eine Legende; ein Star, dessen Anziehungskraft bis heute nicht nachgelassen hat - das Image des toughen, aber verwundbaren Mannes, das Bogart mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte lang pflegte, wirkt noch immer nach. Es liegt eine Wahrheit in diesem Image; ein Gefühl, dass Erschöpfung, Angst und Verwundbarkeit der Filmfiguren ihre Wurzeln in der Realität haben. Auch wenn der Zuschauer nichts über Bogarts Privatleben wusste: Er glaubte ihm seine Darstellungen in Klassikern wie Casablanca, Die Spur des Falken, Entscheidung in der Sierra, Tote schlafen fest oder African Queen - und er glaubt ihm immer noch. > Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life. > 192 str. : fotogr. * text James Ursini ; editor Paul Duncan ; photos the Kobal collection
Juan M[anuel] Corral: Humphrey Bogart: De la A a la Z. Madrid: Jaguar, 2007Coincidiendo con el 50 aniversario de la muerte de Humphrey Bogart (14 de enero de 1957), Ediciones Jaguar publica una completa biografía en clave de diccionario sobre la vida, dentro y fuera de las pantallas, de este mito del cine americano. Protagonista de películas como Casablanca, Tener y no tener, El sueño eterno o La reina de África, por la que obtuvo un Oscar y el reconocimiento a su larga y meritoria carrera, Humphrey Bogart fue una de esas atípicas estrellas de Hollywood que marcaron el estilo de su época. En 1943 conoció a Lauren Bacall, una jovencita de 19 años, de piernas larguísimas y magnéticos ojos verdes, con la que compartiría protagonismo en Tener y no tener y con la que acabaría casándose, un par de años después, formando una de las parejas más sólidas y respetadas de Hollywood. A través de una completa filmografía, multitud de anécdotas y pequeñas biografías de las personas que formaron parte de su círculo cercano, este diccionario recopila todos los detalles importantes de la vida del mítico "Bogey". > 235 p., [32] p. de lám
'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.' He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the rat pack and met four wives on set - including his great love, Lauren Bacall - yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of film's most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinema's greatest icon. > 124 s. : ill.
Darwin Porter: Humphrey Bogart: The Making of a Legend. New York: Blood Moon Productions, 2010Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood during Prohibition and the Jazz Age. This radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's pioneering biographies begins with Bogart's origins as the child of wealthy (morphine-addicted) parents in New York City, then examines the scandals, love affairs, breakthrough successes, and failures that launched Bogart on the road to becoming an American icon. Drawn from original interviews with friends and foes who knew a lot about what lay beneath his trenchcoat, this exposé covers Bogart's life from his birth in 1899 till his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. It includes details about behind-the-scenes dramas associated with three mysterious marriages, and films such as The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, and Casablanca. Read all about the debut and formative years of the actor who influenced many generations of filmgoers, laying Bogie's life bare in a style you've come to expect from Darwin Porter. Exposed with all the juicy details is what Bogie never told his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, herself a screen legend. This revelatory book is based on dusty, unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and often personal interviews from the women — and the men — who adored him. There are also shocking allegations from colleagues, former friends, and jilted lovers who wanted the screen icon to burn in hell. All this and more, much more, in Darwin Porter’s celebrity exposé, Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend. > 542 p. : ill.
Richard Schickel: Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart. Bath: Palazzo 2010From his emergence as a figure to be reckoned with in High Sierra and as private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon in 1941, his iconic performance in Casablanca two years later, to his Oscar-winning role in The African Queen in 1952, Humphrey Bogart ensured his place as a true Hollywood legend. The quintessential 'tough guy', no star of his era remains such a lively presence in our imaginations. From the time he decided to pursue acting, Humphrey Bogart was committed to the art. In the more than 80 films spanning his career, he was never once late to the set or unprepared for his lines. He was professional in every aspect of his own career. By the late fifties it was possible to argue that it was Humphrey Bogart, not Clark Gable or Gary Cooper or James Cagney or even Cary Grant, who had appeared in more films - close to a dozen of them - that are unarguably central to the history of American cinema, and today, Casablanca still vies for the title of best picture ever made. While Bogart's personal charm is to this day unmatched on screen, his private life was the stuff of legend. With Lauren Bacall, he formed one of Hollywood's most celebrated on and off-screen couples. Upon meeting Bacall, Bogart told her: 'I saw your test. We're going to have a lot of fun together.' Following the success of The African Queen, Bogart starred in several other notable movies, including Sabrina, Beat the Devil and The Caine Mutiny. Sadly, in 1956, his outstanding career was cut short by cancer of the oesophagus. He died in January 1957. In this lavishly illustrated biography, published to mark 50 years since Bogart's death, Richard Schickel pays a fitting tribute to one of American cinema's most enduring symbols. > 192 p. : ill. * foreword by Stephen Bogart; appreciation by Richard Schickel; the movies by George Perry
A[nn] M. Sperber, Eric Lax: Bogart. New York: HarperCollins, 2011Bogart paints an indelible portrait of a complex man, from the privilege and abuse he experienced in childhood to his triumphant 1935 acting breakthrough in The Petrified Forest to his classic roles as the cynical idealist Rick of Casablanca and the drunken yet lovable Charlie Allnut in The African Queen. Based on more than two hundred interviews, years of research, and documents ranging from Warner Brothers script reports to an extensive FBI file, this is the definitive account of the immortal actor, painted against a backdrop of studio politics during Hollywood’s Golden Age and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era. Bogart is engrossing and unforgettable — a biography as towering as the legend at its heart. > 704 Seiten
Stefan Kanfer: Tough without a Gun: The Extraordinary Life of Humphrey Bogart. London: Faber, 2011A Humphrey Bogart comes along only once in a century: someone who isn’t conventionally handsome or particularly versatile, but who can convince an audience that whatever character he’s playing is of great importance, because he represents something vital about themselves and their time. He honed his craft for years in the theatre, only becoming a star at the age of forty-two as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon . In the sixteen years that were left to him, he made an indelible mark on movies - such that film-makers as diverse as Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard paid homage to him in their films. At the heart of this biography is Bogart’s love affair with the nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall, who stole To Have and Have Not - and his heart - by lolling in a doorway, tossing insolent remarks and teaching him to put his lips together and whistle. > xi, 288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.