Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends and drinking buddies.

John Huston was reported to be easily bored during production, and admired Bogart ( who also got bored easily off camera ) not just for his acting talent but for his intense concentration on the set.

Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: " Bogart can be tough without a gun.

He was different from the usual cowboy hero of the era ; dressed in black, he spoke with a " city tough-guy " accent, somewhat like that of Humphrey Bogart, whom he physically resembled.

The film cemented a strong personal and professional connection between Bogart and Huston.

Bogart enjoyed intense, provocative conversation and stiff drinks, as did Huston.

Key Largo was directed by John Huston and, in addition to the presence of Bogart and Bacall, features Edward G. Robinson as " Johnny Rocco ," a seething older synthesis of many of his past vicious gangster roles.

Riding high in 1947 with a new contract which provided some script refusal rights and the right to form his own separate production company, Bogart reunited with John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a stark tale of greed involving three gold prospectors played out in the dusty back country of Mexico.

Bogart later said of co-star ( and John Huston's father ) Walter Huston, " He's probably the only performer in Hollywood to whom I'd gladly lost a scene ".

Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the film The African Queen in 1951, again directed by his friend John Huston.

Huston's love of adventure, a chance to work with Hepburn, and Bogart's earlier successes with Huston convinced Bogart to leave the comfortable confines of Hollywood for a difficult shoot on location in the Belgian Congo in Africa.

Just about everyone in the cast came down with dysentery except Bogart and John Huston, who subsisted on canned food and alcohol.

As early as 1954, Humphrey Bogart expressed the desire to star in " The Man Who Would Be King " and was in talks with director John Huston.

As one biographer observed, Warner " was furious when Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Paul Henreid and John Huston joined other members of the stellar Committee for the First Amendment in a flight to Washington to preach against the threat to free expression ".

He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo ( 1948 ), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role.

She made her first American film, Beat the Devil, in 1953 with Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones, directed by John Huston.

The film cemented a strong personal and professional connection between Bogart and Huston.

The performance was so bad and embarrassing that Huston and Bogart remembered it years later and based a scene in Key Largo on the incident.

On October 27, 1947, she flew with a group of about 30 actors, directors, writers, and filmmakers ( including John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Danny Kaye ), to Washington D. C. to protest the actions of Congress.

Burnett worked with many of the greats in acting and directing, including Raoul Walsh, John Huston, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, and Michael Cimino, John Wayne ( The Dark Command ), Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Paul Muni, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood.

The film, starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston, was a great commercial success, and in 1949 it also won three Academy Awards.

Wada and Sanada's relationship may be similar to that of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart.

Around this time, unable to escape the stresses in his life, Morse would regularly pay trips to the movie theater, seeing the new movies of the day and quickly developing idols like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Orson Welles, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, while Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Billy Wilder were his favorite directors.

After that he had roles that included playing a sergeant in the Western Stagecoach ( 1939 ) starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne ; an intern in The Return of Dr. X, starring Humphrey Bogart ; a New York reporter in Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ) starring Pat O ' Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Crisp ; a reporter in the post-Hollywood Production Code version of The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor ; and a reporter in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) starring James Cagney and Walter Huston.

Key Largo is a 1948 film noir directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson a and Lauren Bacall and featuring Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor.

When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film.

" As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, his tidiness, the " cute " pictures his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she dressed him in — and the name " Humphrey.

" From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, a fondness for fishing, a lifelong love of boating, and an attraction to strong-willed women.

With no viable career options, Bogart followed his love for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918.

Supposedly, while changing trains in Boston, the handcuffed prisoner asked Bogart for a cigarette and while Bogart looked for a match, the prisoner raised his hands, smashed Bogart across the mouth with his cuffs, cutting Bogart's lip, and fled.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

Bogart then signed a contract with Fox Film Corporation for $ 750 a week.

The producer Arthur Hopkins heard the play from off-stage and sent for Bogart to play escaped murderer Duke Mantee in Robert E. Sherwood's new play, The Petrified Forest.

The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.

Jack Warner, famous for butting heads with his stars, tried to get Bogart to adopt a stage name, but Bogart stubbornly refused.

Bogart disliked the roles chosen for him, but he worked steadily: between 1936 and 1940, Bogart averaged a movie every two months, sometimes even working on two simultaneously, as movies were not generally shot sequentially.

Bogart for his part needled her mercilessly and seemed to enjoy confrontation.

" During this time, Bogart bought a motor launch, which he named Sluggy, after his nickname for his hot-tempered wife.

Bogart had a lifelong disgust for the pretentious, fake or phony, as his son Stephen told Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne in 1999.

The New York Times said of Bogart, " he is incredibly adroit ... the skill with which this old rock-ribbed actor blend the gags and such duplicities with a manly manner of melting is one of the incalculable joys of the show.

Bogart plays embittered writer Dixon Steele, who has a history of violence and becomes a suspect in a murder case at the same time that he falls in love with a failed actress, played by Gloria Grahame.

Many Bogart biographers and actress / writer Louise Brooks agree that the role is the closest to Bogart's real self and is considered among his best performances.

The terrier was owned by actors Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davies, Elizabeth Taylor, and by writer Agatha Christie.

Playing a violent, quick-tempered Hollywood movie writer suspected of murder, Mr. Bogart looms large on the screen of the Paramount Theatre and he moves flawlessly through a script which is almost as flinty as the actor himself.

Down on his luck, veteran movie director and writer Harry Dawes ( Humphrey Bogart ) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards ( Warren Stevens ), who has decided he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego.

William G. Bogart ( 1903 – 1977 ) was an American pulp fiction writer.