Bogart: The Biography - Hardcover

Sperber, A M

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297812750 ISBN 13: 9780297812753

Publisher: W&N, 1997

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The first definitive biography of a Hollywood legend. More than other actor of his time Humphrey Bogart was an icon. For two eventful decades his screen roles reflected the national mood, from the gangster-ridden 1930s of the petrified forest through the wartime escapism of Casablanca and theMaltese Falcon to the postwar alienation of in a Lonely place.

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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"

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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.

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