Word: bogarting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Easy. After young Humphrey left the service, one of Dr. Bogart's patients-a cigar-smoking, hard-drinking promoter of prizefights and theatrical ventures named William A. Brady-put him to work at $50 a week as the manager of a traveling road company. His most painful duty was paying the actors-they made more than he did. One night, hopeful of financial advancement, he injected himself into a minor role. "It was awful," he recalls. "I knew all the lines of all the parts because I'd heard them from out front about a thousand times...
Shock & Amuse. During the twenties. Bogart went from one Broadway hit to another as a juvenile in romantic parts. He is remembered by old friends as a "well-behaved, agreeable, serious young man," but one who had no sense of direction. Eventually, setbacks and difficulty seemed to provide him with it. He went to Hollywood in 1929 to be the Fox Studio's Gable: "I wasn't Gable, and I flopped." He came back to Broadway-to the Depression and three long years of disappointment and debt. Then Producer Arthur Hopkins cast him (despite the doubts of Bogart...
...Both Bogart and the play were tremendous successes. Bogie went back to Hollywood in triumph to play the same role in a Warner version with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. He stayed-to rebel against Hollywood's mores; to scrabble for its gold; to battle bitterly, in public and in private, for better parts; to shock, amuse or horrify his friends and acquaintances. In part he seemed bent, as his enemies charged, on playing Humphrey Bogart in public. In part he was simply making a shrewd bid for publicity, and in part he was giving irascible voice...
...return the mogul telephoned his actor and sorrowfully took him to task. "Jack." he replied, "you don't even know what I mean by creep." Said Warner: "Yes, I do-I've got a dictionary right before me. It means loathsome, crawling thing." "But Jack," said Bogart, "I spell it with...
Faithful Husband. But Bogart did more than protest. He proved and reproved his talent in such pictures as High Sierra, Casablanca and To Have and Have Not. With John Huston (who first directed him in 1941 as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, and with whom he has made Treasure of Sierra Madre, African Queen and, lately, Beat the Devil) he gambled both professional reputation and money on his conviction that motion pictures should break away from the trite and the ordinary. Last year he abandoned the security of a 15-year contract (it had eight more years...