Word: humphreyism
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...Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Jason Robards ... Did you ever think of dating an accountant...
...injunction that said, "Verbal messages cause misunderstanding and delays (please put them in writing)." And put them in writing they did, the most star-studded list of memo writers in movie history: the Warner brothers themselves; producers, directors and writers; and a roster of stars that included Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and George Raft. The best of those tens of thousands of messages have now been collected by Film Historian Rudy Behlmer, whose Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951) (Viking; $19.95) is, to any fan of film, an open sesame into Aladdin's Cave...
...been promised nothing but big pictures, demanded release from a thriller set in San Francisco: "I strongly feel that The Maltese Falcon, which you want me to do, is not an important picture." That role was also recast, and The Maltese Falcon made a big star of Humphrey Bogart...
...cousins, who were born in the town of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, have wanted to make pictures since they were teenagers. Golan, the elder partner, devoted much of his time to the movies, watching his screen idols, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Charlie Chaplin. He spent the '50s working in the theater, and though he became Israel's highest-paid director, he now regards the time as wasted; it kept him from his true love, the movies...
...Humphrey Bogart was a brilliant smoker. He taught generations how to hold a cigarette, how to inhale, how to squint through the smoke. But as a kisser, Bogart was an awful example. His mouth addressed a woman's lips with the quivering nibble of a horse closing in on an apple. Better to study, say, the suave carnality of Gary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious...