Bogart - Softcover

Sperber, A M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753804867 ISBN 13: 9780753804865

Publisher: Phoenix, 1998

Synopsis

The first definitive biography of his times Humphrey Bogart was an icon. For 2 eventful decades his screen roles reflected the National mood, from the gangster-ridden 1930's of the Petrified Forest through the wartime escapism of Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon to the postwar alienation of In a Lonely Place. A.M.Sperber and Eric Lax's research has uncovered Bogart's own childhood writing, his extensive FBI File; they have scoured the Warner Borthers archives where Bogart made most of his films; they interviewed 200 of his friends and colleagues. Here is the life, loves and career of an eduring symbol of American cinema.

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Review:

"Dramatic, historically informative, and elegiac, [Bogart] exemplifies an honorable standard in the uneven world of film biographies."--Kirkus Reviews

"The last word on a legend."--Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography

"An immediate triumph...so rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, it is an absorbing human story of the motion picture business in the age of Humphrey Bogart."--Los Angeles Times

"A very well done volume."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"This model biography should become the standard study of Bogart."--Library Journal

Dramatic, historically informative, and elegiac, [Bogart] exemplifies an honorable standard in the uneven world of film biographies. --Kirkus Reviews"

The last word on a legend. --Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography"

An immediate triumph...so rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, it is an absorbing human story of the motion picture business in the age of Humphrey Bogart. --Los Angeles Times"

A very well done volume. --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"

This model biography should become the standard study of Bogart. --Library Journal"

From the Back Cover:

Bogart paints an indelible portrait of a complex man, from the privilege and abuse he experienced in childhood to his triumphant 1935 acting breakthrough in The Petrified Forest to his classic roles as the cynical idealist Rick of Casablanca and the drunken yet lovable Charlie Allnut in The African Queen.

Based on more than two hundred interviews, years of research, and documents ranging from Warner Brothers script reports to an extensive FBI file, this is the definitive account of the immortal actor, painted against a backdrop of studio politics during Hollywood's Golden Age and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era.

Bogart is engrossing and unforgettable--a biography as towering as the legend at its heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0753804867
• ISBN 13: 9780753804865
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512