The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 ) was an American actor and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.

Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).

Bogart was raised in the Episcopalian faith, but did not have a strong belief in God.

" 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.

Bogart attended the Delancey School until fifth grade, when he was enrolled in Trinity School.

They hoped he would go on to Yale, but in 1918, Bogart was expelled.

" Bogart is recorded as a model sailor who spent most of his months in the Navy after the Armistice was signed, ferrying troops back from Europe.

It was during his naval stint that Bogart may have gotten his trademark scar and developed his characteristic lisp, though the actual circumstances are unclear.

In one account, during a shelling of his ship the, his lip was cut by a piece of shrapnel, although some claim Bogart did not make it to sea until after the Armistice with Germany was signed.

Another version, which Bogart's long-time friend, author Nathaniel Benchley, claims is the truth, is that Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine.

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.

By the time Bogart was treated by a doctor, the scar had already formed.

" 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.

Bogart returned home to find his father was suffering from poor health ( perhaps aggravated by morphine addiction ), his medical practice was faltering, and he lost much of the family's money on bad investments in timber.

Bogart had been raised to believe acting was beneath a gentleman, but he enjoyed stage acting.

She, like Menken, had a fiery temper and, like every other Bogart spouse, was an actress.

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

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.

Bogart was still torn between his new love and his sense of duty to his marriage.

A log cabin from the old Bogart site and the factory warehouse where Pauline Pottery was first made in Edgerton still survive.

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.

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.

The new company became known as Casablanca Record and Filmworks, with Bogart still at its helm as President, while Guber became Chairman of the Board and head of its film division.

Film still image of Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida and Humphrey Bogart

Almost 60 years later, in 2007, filled with Bogart memorabilia, it is still in business as a tourist attraction.

In a 1997 review, Eric Brace of The Washington Post wrote that the 1945 original had a " slightly slower pace than the one released a year later, and a touch less zingy interplay between Bogart and Bacall, but it ’ s still an unqualified masterpiece.

Bogart Pond is still there, though now surrounded by homes and condominiums, and the former community of Bogarttown has now all but been swallowed up by the rapid expansion of Newmarket.

Bogart and Bacall fell in love on the set of the film and married soon afterwards.

Lauren Bacall, co-star married to Bogart from 1945 until his death

Bogart and Bacall then married in a small ceremony at the country home of Bogart's close friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield at Malabar Farm near Lucas, Ohio on May 21, 1945.

Anderson's long-running 1927 comedy-drama about married life, Saturday's Children, in which Humphrey Bogart made an early appearance, was filmed three times – in 1929 as a part-talkie, in 1935 ( in almost unrecognizable form ) as a B-film Maybe It's Love and once again in 1940 under its original title, starring John Garfield in one of his few romantic comedies, along with Anne Shirley and Claude Rains.

Co-stars Humphrey Bogart and Mayo Methot met on the set of Marked Woman and were married in 1938.

She married Humphrey Bogart in 1938.

Following her divorce from Bogart in May 1945 ( Bogart married actress Lauren Bacall two weeks later ), she moved back to Oregon where her mother helped take care of her.

Key Largo was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall.

Anne Bogart is married to Rena Chelouche Fogel.

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

) Tracy and Bogart appeared in their only film together in John Ford's early sound film Up the River ( 1930 ), with both playing inmates.

Bogart performed in his final films for Warners, Chain Lightning, released early in 1950, and The Enforcer, released early in 1951.

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.

Bogart and Bacall also worked together on an early color telecast, in 1955, an NBC adaptation of The Petrified Forest for Producers ' Showcase ; only a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has survived.

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.

Actors known for their early support of SAG ( besides the founders ) include Edward Arnold, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O ' Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young.

Although Oscar's death and an economic depression disrupted the business in the 1890s, Pauline Jacobus continued making pottery in Edgerton until the early 1900s ' fire that destroyed her rural Edgerton home, " The Bogart ".

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the legendary Rat Pack, so called by the public after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member.

After Buddah Records president Neil Bogart agreed to distribute their T-Neck singles, the Isleys released the hit record, " It's Your Thing " in early 1969.

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.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

Most remembered for her role as Brigid O ' Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.

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 ).

In the early ' 80s, with Bogart no longer heading the label, Casablanca had hits with acts Lipps Inc and Irene Cara, but it did not have the same level of success it had in the ' 70s.

Bogart had been an MGM General Manager in the early sixties before taking a VP / Sales Director position at Cameo-Parkway Records.

In the early 1940s Hurrell moved to Warner Brothers Studios photographing, among others Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Alexis Smith, Maxine Fife, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney.

Groucho Marx has said that an early draft named his character " Humphrey Bogus ", a reference to the leading actor in Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart.

Bogart and Overlie were on the faculty of ETW at NYU in the late 1970s and early 1980s during which time Bogart was influenced by Overlie's innovations.

While many of his early films were supporting roles in major films starring James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, or Bette Davis, as well as leads or second leads in B pictures, often type-cast as a gangster, Bogart would later play such notable roles as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Charlie Allnut in The African Queen, and Rick Blaine in Casablanca.