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Humphrey DeForest Bogart, nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
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Born 25 December 1899 · Died 14 January 1957 · Q16390
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“The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances. The result: A lot of dull performances in dull pictures.”
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“All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky. Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead.”
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“The ten men cited for contempt by the House Un-American Activities Committee were not defended by us.”
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“marked my deliverance from the ranks of the sleek, sybaritic, stiff-shirted, swallow-tailed”
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“Instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up.”
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Public attention spiked: 21,525 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.1× the usual 3,506, with 2 article edits.
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Notable artist William Kentridge included a drawing of Bogart in his solo museum exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles
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The Cheat Sheet: Humphrey Bogart Improvised 1 of the Most Famous Lines From ‘Casablanca’
The Guardian: Humphrey Bogart in a clip from classic film noir In a Lonely Place – video
103rd Street between Broadway and West End Avenue in New York City was renamed Humphrey Bogart Place
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“Today, we mark another chapter in the Bogart legacy. With an image that is small and yet as powerful as the ones he left in celluloid, we will begin today to bring his artistry, his power, his unique star quality, to the messages that travel the world.”
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The American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema
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Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked Bogart the number-one movie legend of all time; two years later, the American Film Institute rated him the greatest male screen legend
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Bogart was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion-picture star at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard
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Died 1957-01-14.
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“You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.”
With Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward replacing Bogart and Bacall
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An NBC adaptation of "The Petrified Forest" for Producers' Showcase
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His contract with Warners was dissolved by mutual consent
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The African Queen (1952).
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(his only award of three nominations), and he considered it the best of his film career
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With a new 15-year contract with Warners which provided limited script refusal and the right to form his own production company, Bogart starred with Barbara Stanwyck in The Two Mrs
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Played a war hero in another noir, Dead Reckoning, tangled in a dangerous web of brutality and violence as he investigates his friend's murder, co-starring Lizabeth Scott
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Recorded his hand- and footprints in cement in a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
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A few months after principal photography for The Big Sleep, their second film together, he divorced his third wife and married Bacall
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It was withdrawn and re-edited to add scenes exploiting Bogart and Bacall's box-office chemistry in To Have and Have Not and the publicity surrounding their offscreen relationship
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Patrolling the California coastline in his yacht, the Santana
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And 1944, making arduous trips to Italy and North Africa (including Casablanca)
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Bogart entered a turbulent third marriage to actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober but paranoid and aggressive when drunk
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Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque (renamed the John Golden Theatre in 1937)
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In debt, which Bogart eventually paid off
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“s second marriage was rocky; dissatisfied with his acting career, depressed and irritable, he drank heavily. In Hollywood permanently: The Petrified Forest In 1934, Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque (renamed the John Golden Theatre in 1937). Its producer, Arthur Hopkins, heard the play from offstage; he sent for Bogart and offered him the role of escaped murderer Duke Mantee in Robert E. Sherwood”
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Tracy first called him "Bogie"
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And was the basis of two earlier film versions; the second was Satan Met a Lady (1936), starring Bette Davis
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At her mother's apartment in Hartford, Connecticut; Bogart and Philips had worked together in the play Nerves during its brief run at the Comedy Theatre in 1924
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Had scar tissue on his upper lip, which Brooks said Bogart may have had partially repaired before entering the film industry in 1930
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Met actress Helen Menken; they were married on May 20, 1926, at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City
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After one semester (although the Phillips Academy website claims he was in the graduating class of 1920)
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Born 1899-12-25.
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