Bogart

Bogart
ISBN-10
0062107364
ISBN-13
9780062107367
Series
Bogart
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Language
English
Published
2011-11-29
Publisher
It Books
Author
Ann Sperber

Description

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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