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After the stock market crash of 1929, stage production dropped off sharply, and many of the more photogenic actors headed for Hollywood.

Bogart's earliest film role is with Helen Hayes in the 1928 two-reeler The Dancing Town, of which a complete copy has never been found.

He also appeared with Joan Blondell and Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone short, Broadway's Like That ( 1930 ) which was re-discovered in 1963.