Bogart - Hardcover

Sperber, A. M.; Lax, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688075398 ISBN 13: 9780688075392

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1997

Synopsis

676 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

About this title

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: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0688075398
• ISBN 13: 9780688075392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 676