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To incarnate the role ’ s “ intense, tragic face ”, Fellini ’ s first choice had been Humphrey Bogart but after learning of the actor ’ s lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of All the King ’ s Men ( 1949 ).
" 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.
By the time Bogart was treated by a doctor, the scar had already formed.
When actress Louise Brooks met Bogart in 1924, he had some scarred tissue on his upper lip, which Belmont Bogart may have partially repaired before Bogart went into films in 1930.
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 had been raised to believe acting was beneath a gentleman, but he enjoyed stage acting.
Bogart loathed the trivial, effeminate parts he had to play early in his career, calling them " White Pants Willie " roles.
She, like Menken, had a fiery temper and, like every other Bogart spouse, was an actress.
His parents had separated, and Belmont died in 1934 in debt, which Bogart eventually paid off.
Bogart never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 he named his only daughter " Leslie Howard " after Howard, who had died in World War II under mysterious circumstances.
The studio system, then at its most entrenched, usually restricted actors to one studio, with occasional loan-outs, and Warner Bros. had no interest in making Bogart a top star.
Most of the studio's better movie scripts went to these men, and Bogart had to take what was left.
Bogart had a lifelong disgust for the pretentious, fake or phony, as his son Stephen told Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne in 1999.
Because Bergman was taller than her leading man, Bogart had blocks attached to his shoes in certain scenes.
" Years later, after Bergman had taken up with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and bore him a child, Bogart confronted her.
Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.
They had their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart on August 23, 1952, a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard.
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.
Bogart was uneasy with Gardner because she had just split from " rat-pack " buddy Frank Sinatra and was carrying on with bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín.
He was familiar with mental illness ( his sister had bouts of depression ), and Bogart encouraged Tierney to seek treatment, which she did.
Bogart had formed a new production company and had plans for a new film Melville Goodwin, U. S. A., in which he would play a general and Bacall a press magnate.

Bogart and just
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.
The studios, however, were already under a lot of pressure, not just from free-lancing actors like Bogart, James Stewart, Henry Fonda and others ( who also saved taxes as independents ), but also from the eroding impact of television and from anti-trust laws which were breaking up theater chains.
He wants the experienced Roy Earle ( Humphrey Bogart ), just released from an eastern prison by a governor's pardon, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation.
In an interview Bogart stated, “ Jenn and I just didn ’ t belong together.
" Robinson is dismissive but " Bogart pours her a stiff drink, walks it over ... under gunpoint ... and gives it to her and says ' You deserve this '— it's just a great dramatic scene, it's a wonderful use of a song in a non-musical picture.
Bogart recognizes that these are not the only Viewpoints, just the ones she finds most useful for the actors with whom she works.
It's a part Bogart once would have played — the amoral tough guy who rises to the moral occasion — and Crowe gives it just the right note of gravel-voiced masculinity.
Bogart ’ s article appeared just weeks before Noelle-Neumann took up a visiting position in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where she had held similar appointments since 1978.

Bogart and turned
When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film.
Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.
Bogart complained, " An intelligent script, beautifully directed — something different — and the public turned a cold shoulder on it ".
Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".
In 1955 Tracy turned down William Wyler's The Desperate Hours because he refused to take second-billing to Humphrey Bogart.
However, Bogart, who at the time took a great interest in playing the role of Roy Earle, managed to talk Raft out of accepting the role, who subsequently turned it down.
Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him " Mad-Dog " Earle.

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

Bogart and 36
Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

Bogart and when
Bogart attended the Delancey School until fifth grade, when he was enrolled in Trinity School.
An alternate explanation is in the process of uncuffing an inmate, Bogart was struck in the mouth when the inmate wielded one open, uncuffed bracelet while the other side was still on his wrist.
" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.
On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered into a disastrous third marriage, with actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober, but paranoid when drunk.
But when Bogart won the Academy Award, which he truly coveted despite his well-advertised disdain for Hollywood, he said " It's a long way from the Belgian Congo to the stage of this theatre.
* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.
In the film noir Dark Passage, the protagonist has plastic surgery, and when his bandages are removed, he is revealed to be Humphrey Bogart.
The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.
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 ".
Boothe joined the ranks of Humphrey Bogart and other actors when he portrayed Philip Marlowe in a series of short films for HBO in the 1980s.
Walsh unofficially co-directed The Enforcer, with Humphrey Bogart and Zero Mostel, when director Bretaigne Windust fell ill at the beginning of shooting in 1951.
Methot's career went into a rapid decline as a result of her drinking, and her marriage to Bogart ended in 1945, when he left her to marry Lauren Bacall.
He was nicknamed " Roscoe " during a choir practice when he referred to his police-issue. 38 special as a " roscoe " after watching a Humphrey Bogart movie on television.
The title and lyrics of their song, " In a Lonely Place ," appear to be based on the 1950 Humphrey Bogart film of the same name, including the lyrics, " I was born the day I met you, lived a while when you loved me, died a little when we broke apart.
He successfully represented several stars of the era, including Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, David Niven, Zero Mostel, Richard Burton, and Stanley Kubrick, until the 1950s when his business was negatively affected by investigations of many of his clients by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Dubbed " swifty " by Humphrey Bogart when he put together three major deals for Bogart in a single day.
Spencer Tracy was originally cast to play the lead opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours ( 1955 ) but when neither actor would relinquish top billing, Tracy withdrew and was replaced by Fredric March, who took second billing to Bogart.
His family continued to call him Bogart, but when Bice was in kindergarten he shortened it to " Bo " because he didn't think Bogart was cool.

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