Bogart loathed the trivial, effeminate parts he had to play early in his career, calling them " White Pants Willie " roles.

Early in his career, while playing double roles in the play Drifting at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922, Bogart met actress Helen Menken.

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.

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

Warner, however, did not think Bogart was star material, and decided to only cast Bogart in infrequent roles as a villain opposite either James Cagney or Edward Robinson over the next five years.

The forces that prevented him from getting high quality roles were really the result of the combined willpower of the Warner Bros., the studio system in general, and the general public, which also had its own perception of how Garfield ( or Cagney or Bogart for that matter ) should appear on screen.

He also had roles in one of Laurel and Hardy's later films The Big Noise ( 1944 ), and the Warner Bros. movies Humoresque ( 1946 ), playing John Garfield's character as a child, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), playing the Mexican boy who sells Humphrey Bogart a winning lottery ticket and getting a glass of water thrown in his face in the process.

She received substantial roles and positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such films as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), opposite James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Dodge City ( 1939 ) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Torrid Zone with Cagney and They Drive by Night with George Raft and Bogart ( both 1940 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ) with Bette Davis, and Kings Row ( 1942 ), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field.

Mr. Bogart plays the leading role with a perfection of hard-boiled vitality, and Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis and a newcomer named Joan Leslie handle lesser roles effectively.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

He went into a gradual professional decline over the next decade, in part due to turning down some of the most-famous roles in movie history, notably Raoul Walsh's High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon ; both roles unexpectedly transformed Humphrey Bogart from supporting player to a major force in Hollywood in 1941.

Much of Malone's early career was spent in supporting roles in B-movies, many of them Westerns, although on occasion she played small but memorable roles, such as the brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep ( 1946 ) with Humphrey Bogart, and the love interest of Dean Martin in the musical-comedy Artists and Models ( 1955 ).

Actors such as Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne portrayed serious roles in various dialects of American English speech, and the export of American cinema familiarized the rest of the world with its features.

Danish-born director / screenwriter Ib Melchior brings a surprisingly light, deft touch to the proceedings, allowing the actors a chance to have fun with their roles -- especially Gerald Mohr, still looking and sounding a bit like Humphrey Bogart, as the stalwart mission commander, and Jack Kruschen as the good-humored technician in the crew -- without losing sight of the adventure and the story line, and meshing it all seamlessly with the special effects-driven sequences.

In 1955, Ray appeared in starring roles in Battle Cry, Three Stripes in the Sun, and one of his best loved films, We're No Angels ( 1955 ), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.

Bailey's movie roles include playing a member of the board in the comedy / romance Sabrina ( 1954 ) starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden ; Mr. Benson in the drama Picnic ( 1955 ) starring William Holden and Kim Novak ; a doctor in Hitchcock's drama / thriller Vertigo ( 1958 ) starring James Stewart and Novak ; a Colonel in the comedy No Time for Sergeants ( 1958 ) starring Andy Griffith ; the warden of San Quentin in the crime / drama I Want to Live!

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.

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 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.

At his father's deathbed, Bogart finally told Belmont how much he loved him.

Howard, who held production rights, made it clear he wanted Bogart to star with him.

Bogart was proud of his success, but the fact that it came from playing a gangster weighed on him.

The more she and Bogart drifted apart, the more she drank, got furious and threw things at him: plants, crockery, anything close at hand.

Bogart worked well with Ida Lupino, and her relationship with him was a close one, provoking jealousy from Bogart's wife Mayo.

" Years later, after Bergman had taken up with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, Bogart confronted her.

She wrote that the film " gave him a role that he could play with complexity, because the film character's pride in his art, his selfishness, drunkenness, lack of energy stabbed with lightning strokes of violence were shared by the real Bogart ".

Like his portrayal of Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart played a paranoid, self-pitying character whose small-mindedness eventually destroyed him.

Raft had difficulty working with Bogart and refused to co-star in any film with him.

Following Raft's departure, the studio gave Bogart the role of Roy Earl in the 1941 film High Sierra, which helped establish him as one of the studio's top stars ; following High Sierra, Bogart was also given a role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931 failure, The Maltese Falcon.

Bogart, on the other hand, warned him as Burton left Hollywood, " I never knew a man who played Hamlet who didn't die broke.

" During shooting, Bogart was already suffering from the earliest symptoms of the throat cancer that would eventually kill him.

Howard and Bogart had previously appeared in the play together on Broadway and became lifelong friends ; Bogart and Lauren Bacall later named their daughter " Leslie Howard Bogart " after him.

When Marlowe ( Bogart, from The Big Sleep ) calls, Rigby questions him about Walter Neff, the ship's owner, and learns that Neff cruises supermarkets looking for blondes.

Curtiz would later reteam with Humphrey Bogart for his landmark film, that won him an Oscar, Casablanca.

An acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico " Rico " Bandello in Little Caesar ( 1931 ) led to him being typecast as a " tough guy " for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final ( 1931 ), Smart Money ( 1931 ; his only movie with James Cagney ), Tiger Shark ( 1932 ), Kid Galahad ( 1937 ) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and A Slight Case of Murder.

The two men appeared in nine films together, including Casablanca ( 1942 ) as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari ( for which he received a salary of $ 3, 750 per week for seven weeks ), as well as Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ), Passage to Marseille ( 1944 ), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, receiving top billing ), The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ), Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ), Three Strangers ( 1946, receiving top billing ) and The Verdict ( 1946, with top billing ).