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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
Fabric Type: 9780688075392
Fax Number: 1st
Legal Disclaimer: 0688075398
Maximum Color Depth: William Morrow & Co
Metal Type: William Morrow & Co
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 676
Total External Bays Free: 1997-04
Total Firewire Ports: William Morrow & Co
William Morrow & Co
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
It's the season of battling Bogarts: two biographies, each worthwhile for different reasons. If you want a leisurely, formidably well-documented account of Humphrey Bogart's legendary screen career and four marriages (including a happy final one to Lauren Bacall), this is it. A. M. Sperber conducted some 200 interviews with people who knew the actor before his death in 1994; Eric Lax draws on her seven years of research to create a nuanced, in-depth, elegantly written portrait of the man recently dubbed Hollywood's greatest star by Premiere magazine.
Product Description:
He was a top box-office draw in his day, an Oscar-winning actor, a principled man of rare conviction, and -- long after his death -- a cult figure revered by moviegoers who weren't even born while he was making his movies. But over the years, Humphrey Bogart has remained an enigma, despite what we have learned of him from wife Lauren Bacall's own fond memories and from the various biographies that have appeared over the years since his death in 1957.
With Bogart, this wonderful enigma is brought under the light as never before. Although authors Ann M. Sperber and Eric Lax never met, Bogart is a unique collaboration, combining the strengths of two prize-winning biographers. Sperber, the author of the New York Times best-selling Pulitzer-Prize finalist Murrow: His Life and Times (1986), spent seven years before her death in 1994 amassing a vast archive of original research on the life and times of Humphrey Bogart, including more than 200 interviews she conducted with people who had known and worked with him, including Katharine Hepburn and John Huston. Eric Lax, whose Woody Allen was a national bestseller in 1991, took over the project after Sperber's death and spent two years completing it. The result is the definitive portrait of the actor who merged his screen anti-heroism with his own staunch personal integrity in a manner new to Hollywood, fashioning a persona as timely today, forty years after his death, as it was during his own life.
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Thanks to TCM, I've seen all of the big Bogart films and, to be honest, before I saw them, I wasn't sure why this skinny, balding man accrued the fame that he did. Indeed, the only "fame" he held for me was as a term used, circa 1978, to describe a person who monopolizes a certain brand of *cigarette*. Seeing movies such as High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, and Casablanca changed all that. Here was a guy who, though diminutive in stature, was the epitome of cool, glib, nonchalant ... Read More
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This biography is as detailed about the legendary actor as it is large.
"Bogart" was started by Ann Sperber. After her death Eric Lax finished the book. Sperber interviewed over 200 people in her research ranging from family such as Lauren Bacall and son Stephen, to friends in Hollywood.
Humphrey Bogart's childhood was detailed. His parents were successful as a doctor and an artist. They were also addicts that didn't spend a lot of time with their children.
The authors ... Read More
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Well-done bio of Bogart, a sad, lonely, angry man who was an actors actor and consummate professional and made half a dozen of the greatest movies ever made.
His parents were morphine addicted socialites with little love or care for each other or their children (Humphrey's sister was under psychiatric care or her brother's care much of her adult life), and Bogart grew up to replicate their relationship in his first three marriages, before finally finding happiness with Bacall. He drank and smoked ... Read More
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This book is lengthy, but rarely boring. It's a fantastic resource if you want to learn about this unique film actor. It covers his entire personal life and career. A very good read.
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The definitive bio of one of Filmdom's Gods.
You will learn alot about the man as actor, and human being, and about Hollywood in the Golden Age here.
Fantastic!
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