When was bogart born

Humphrey Bogart []. Humphrey Bogart never completed his pre-med education at Phillips Academy because of failing grades. In he enlisted in the U. Following his naval discharge in the early twenties, a family friend who was a theatrical producer, hired him as an office assistant. Bogart worked himself up to the position of stage manager, and began getting small roles in stage plays. Throughout the twenties he continued to do stage work and became a non-renowned stage actor. During the thirties Bogart was in his first feature film entitled, "The Devil with Woman".

The film was a forgettable failure. Bogart's first theatrical success came in the mid-thirties. He had the lead in "The Petrified Forest", a stage play which in was turned into a film with Bogart as the lead actor. Bette Davis was his co-star. It was a smash hit and provided the impetus for Bogart's future acting career.

Bogart's subsequent acting career encompassed numerous top films during the last twenty years of his life. Although there were other films in between, his next smash hit was "High Sierra" in with Ida Lupino as co-star and John Huston as director.

In "Across the Pacific", a war drama also directed by John Huston was produced. Source: Paul Harvey, Jr. In late , was to be a partner with producer Mark Hellinger in a proposed new company, Mark Hellinger Productions.

However, Hellinger died in Dec. The rights to the novel passed to Bogart, and it became the first film of his own new independent production company, Santana Pictures Corporation: Knock on Any Door Lauren Bacall once recalled that while John Wayne and Fred Astaire hardly knew her husband Humphrey Bogart at all, they were the first to send flowers and good wishes after Bogart was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in January After undergoing a nine-and-a-half hour operation for esophageal cancer on 1 March , Bogart began smoking filtered cigarettes for the first time in his life.

While he was married to fiery actress Mayo Methot he discovered that she suspected him of cheating on her - he wasn't - and had hired a private detective to follow him.

Bogart found out the name of the agency the PI worked for, and called them up. When he reached the man's boss he said, "You got a man on my tail.

Would you check with him and find out where I am? The "Bogart Lisp" has been the subject of much speculation. However, it is now believed that it was natural and not the result of a combat injury other stories attribute it to a drunken bar fight or an attack by a prisoner he was transporting while serving as a Shore Patrolman during his US Navy service in WW I.

His son, Steve Bogart , has the same speech impediment as his father. Was producer Hal B. Wallis ' first choice as Burt Lancaster 's co-star in Gunfight at the O. Corral The role was eventually played by Kirk Douglas. Clifton Webb once said about Bogart, "Humphrey was not a tough guy, He was not at all. He was about as tough as Little Lord Fauntleroy". According to "The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood" by Ezra Goodman, Bogart would often strategically disappear from his table at the Hollywood landmark restaurant Romanoff's--a favorite Bogart hangout--when the check was brought to the table, especially after he had invited a magazine writer to dinner and drinks.

Often the writer would wind up having to put on his expense account the bill that Bogart had run up for himself and his friends. Bogart's father, a wealthy surgeon, was friends with famed Broadway and film producer William A. Brady and the families lived near each other in New York City. It was through Brady that Bogart got his first acting job on Broadway, and he in fact worked for a while as the manager of Brady's film studio, World Films.

Became a father for the 1st time at age 49 when his 4th wife Lauren Bacall gave birth to their son Stephen H. Bogart on January 6, Became a father for the 2nd time at age 52 when his 4th wife Lauren Bacall gave birth to their daughter Leslie Bogart on August 23, Bogart and his third wife Mayo Methot had such a raucous relationship that they were known in Hollywood as "The Battling Bogarts".

Jack L. Warner originally turned him down because he objected to his lisp. In reality, Bogart was surprisingly emotional, and cried easily.

His second wife Mary Philips once observed, "Humphrey cries at card tricks. He declined the role of Johnny Farrell in Gilda He reasoned that, with gorgeous Rita Hayworth playing Gilda, audiences wouldn't look at anyone else. Got the part in The Maltese Falcon after George Raft turned it down saying that the role was too wishy washy. For Bogey the film transformed him from gangster roles to those of hero. They even went as far as doing a costume test for the movie.

Sadly Humphrey had just learned he had esophageal cancer and the movie was never made. It's been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It's not Bog-ey.

He signed with an -ie. And that's good enough for me. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else. I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed. When the heavy, full of crime and bitterness, grabs his wounds and talks about death and taxes in a husky voice, the audience is his and his alone. I don't approve of the John Wayne s and the Gary Cooper s saying 'Shucks, I ain't no actor -- I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.

I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it. The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell. I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. The whole world is three drinks behind. If everybody in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it.

That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either. Do I subscribe to the [ Laurence Olivier ] school of acting? Ah, nuts. It is well-recorded that, when he walked onstage as the vicious Duke Mantee, there was a collective gasp from the audience. However, they had their own actor, Edward G. Robinson, in mind for the role of Duke Mantee. Fortunately for Bogart, friend and co-star Leslie Howard ultimately refused to act in the film adaptation unless Bogart retained the role.

Warner Bros. Unfortunately, when the career paths of Bogart and Mary diverged, the marriage ended. After a brief try at life in Hollywood, Mary returned East to continue her successful career as a stage actress. During a visit to a mutual friend, Bogart had crossed paths with aspiring actress Mayo Methot.

Bogart was amused by her loud, unpredictable personality, and Mayo was extremely taken with the handsome newcomer. They quickly developed a serious relationship, and were married in August Although Bogart and Mayo cared for each other, the marriage was tumultuous from the start.

It was no secret that Mayo had a violent temper, suffered from alcohol dependency, and was prone to paranoid jealousy. Living in Hollywood was exciting at first, but Bogart became understandably bored with his on-screen roles.

He made 12 pictures with Warner Bros. Bogart was looking for variety and the chance to prove his versatility.

It was a perfect fit. Bogart had re-defined his career as an actor, and it was just in time for the casting of the romantic war drama Casablanca. The result was a movie that still vies for the best picture ever made. Released on January 23, , it captivated audiences everywhere. In , Warner Bros. He could not have been more right.