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Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) never made a film with Duke but like Duke spent years in the Hollywood wilderness. ... more
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Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) never made a film with Duke but like Duke spent years in the Hollywood wilderness.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, son of an opium addicted surgeon, had been a minor success on Broadway playing juvenile tennis players.
Fox brought him to Hollywood in the early days of the talkies but he was not a success. He was a smash on Broadway a few years later as the gangster (modeled on John Dillinger) Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest."
He should have been a star when the play was filmed in 1936 at Warner Brothers but he subsequently was cast over the next five years in many forgettable productions including gangster films playing second fiddle to James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson.
The one director Duke Wayne could not stomach was John Huston (1906-1987). Their "The Barbarian & the Geisha" (1958) is one of Duke's poorest films.
Huston and Bogart, in turn, were the best of friends with Huston directing "Bogie" in many...
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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