Humphrey bogart biography video edgar

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00:30The man whom the American Film Institute dubbed the greatest male star of all time in 1999

00:36was born exactly 100 years before on Christmas Day 1899.

00:42With wealthy upper middle class parents, Humphrey Bogart's natural milieu was the drawing rooms of Manhattan.

00:48And yet he eventually found fame as Hollywood's favorite gangster and tough guy.

00:53His first real film role was in 1930 in the John Ford directed Up the River

00:58which starred Spencer Tracy.

01:00Bogie then served a long apprenticeship in stage work and minor film roles

01:05making his breakthrough in the 1936 film The Petrified Forest

01:10playing a role based on bank robber John Dillinger.

01:14This set the tone for his long term contract with Warner Brothers

01:17which saw him cast as heavy after heavy in a long series of films

01:21including Raoul Walsh's They Drive by Night in 1940.

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01:32Bogart despaired of his type casting although perhaps his looks made it