Humphrey Deforest Bogart (I43208)
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| Birth | 25 December 1899 |
| Death | 14 January 1957 (Age 57) Hollywood Ca |
| Universal Identifier | B84B539EB5F6F045A0290FD486B877EA1F05 |
| Burial | Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California |
| Last Change | 6 December 2006 - 11:43:42 Last changed by: dcoplien |
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), an American actor of legendary fame who retained his legacy after death. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters achored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African Queen (1951) (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role), The Caine Mutiny (1954), and We're No Angels (1955). In all, he appeared in 75 feature motion pictures. Though his career started as a good but hardly great Broadway stage player and B-movie actor during the 1920s and 1930s, Bogart's later accomplishments have given him iconic status around the world. French actors such as Jean-Paul Belmondo were deeply influenced by his work and image, while India’s great national movie star Ashok Kumar listed Bogart as a major influence on his “natural” acting style. In the United States, Bogart is remembered in one of Woody Allen’s most popular comic movies, Play It Again, Sam, which relates the story of a young man obsessed by Humphrey Bogart's persona. The title refers to a frequent misquote from Casablanca; Ilsa, played by Ingrid Bergman actually says “Play it, Sam.” In 1997, the United States Postal Service featured Bogart in its “Legends of Hollywood” series, and Entertainment Weekly magazine has named Bogart the number one movie legend of all time. He was born Humphrey DeForest Bogart in New York City, the oldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart and Maud Humphrey; he had English, Dutch and some Spanish ancestry. His father was a Republican and a Presbyterian, while his mother was a Tory and an Episcopalian; Bogart was raised in his mother's Episcopal church.[1] He is one of the descendents of King Edward III of England. [2] Bogart's birthday has been a subject of controversy. It was long believed that his birthday on Christmas Day, 1899, was a Warner Bros. fiction created to romanticise his background, and that he was really born on January 23, 1899, a date that appears in many references. However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a Boston newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date. In addition, the 1900 census for the household of Belmont Bogart lists his son Humphrey as having a birthdate in December of 1899. His last wife, actress Lauren Bacall always maintained that December 25 was his true birth date. Bogart's father, Belmont, was a successful surgeon. His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a very successful commercial illustrator. Indeed, she used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known ad campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she made over $50,000 a year as an illustrator, then a vast sum. The Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, and had a cottage in upstate New York. "I can't say I ever loved my mother," Bogart once said. "I admired her." He was raised mainly by an Irish nurse. "My parents fought," he said another time. "We kids would pull the covers over our ears to keep out the sound of fighting. Our home was kept together for the sake of the children as well as for the sake of propriety." From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, a fondness for fishing and a life-long love of sailing. Humphrey was the oldest child of three. When Bogart fell in love with Lauren Bacall and she introduced him to her large family, he said, "Christ, you've got more goddamn relatives than I've ever seen." 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." He was also teased for his lisp; caused by an accident in which a splinter became embedded in his lower lip. "Goddamn doctor", Bogart later told David Niven, "instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up." By the late 1950s, Bogart's health was failing. Once, after signing a long-term deal with Warner Bros., Bogart predicted with glee that his teeth and hair would fall out before the contract ended. That sent a fuming Jack Warner to his lawyers. Bogart contracted cancer of the esophagus. He almost never spoke of it and refused to see a doctor until January of 1956, and by then removal of his esophagus, two lymph nodes and a rib was too little, too late. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy came to see him. Bogart was too weak to walk up and down stairs. He tried to joke about it: "Put me in the dumbwaiter and I'll ride down to the first floor in style. Hepburn has described the last time she and Spencer Tracy saw Bogart: "Spence patted him on the shoulder and said, 'Goodnight, Bogie.' Bogie turned his eyes to Spence very quietly and with a sweet smile covered Spence's hand with his own and said, 'Goodbye, Spence.' Spence's heart stood still. He understood." Bogart had just turned 57 and weighed only 80 pounds (36 kg) when he died on January 14, 1957 after falling into a coma. He died in Hollywood. His funeral was held at All Saints Episcopal Church with musical selections played from Bogart's favorite composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy. Bacall had asked Spencer Tracy to give the eulogy but Tracy was too upset. John Huston gave the eulogy instead, and reminded the gathered mourners that while Bogart's life had ended far too soon, it had been a rich one. Huston said: "He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be another like him." His cremated remains are interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California. Buried with him is a small gold whistle, which he had given to his future wife, Lauren Bacall, before they married. In reference to their first movie together, it was inscribed: "If you want anything, just whistle." |
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