Bette Davis as Gabby Leslie Howard Humphrey Bogart #1 Petrified Forest 1936-2016
by David Lee Guss
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Bette Davis as Gabby Leslie Howard Humphrey Bogart #1 Petrified Forest 1936-2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Bette Davis as Gabby Leslie Howard Humphrey Bogart #1 Petrified Forest 1936-2016
Bogie and Howard are reprising the roles they played in 181 performances at the Broadhurst Theater in New York in 1934.
Since Bogart had failed in his film roles earlier in the decade, Warner Brothers did not want to cast him as the gangster. They wanted Eddie Robinson but he wanted top billing. That wouldn't work with the reuniting of Davis-Howard. Besides Howard insisted on Bogie.
Reluctantly Warners hired Bogie on a minimal three week's contract and gave him 5th billing. But all that changed after lunch of the first day of shooting when Duke and his gang burst into Black Mesa Bar-B-Q announcing that 'This is Duke Mantee folks, the world famous killer, and he's hungry.'"
[Talking about signing his $5,000.00 life insurance policy over to Gabby]
Mrs. Edith Chisholm: You're in love with her, aren't you?
Alan Squier: Yes, I suppose I am. And not unreasonably. She has heroic stuff in her. She may be one of the immortal women of France. Another Joan of Arc, George Sand, Madame Curie, or Du Barry. I want to show her that I believe in her, and how else can I do it? Living, I'm worth nothing to her. Dead, I can buy her the tallest cathedrals, golden vineyards, and dancing in the streets. One well-directed bullet will accomplish all that, and it'll earn a measure of reflected glory for him that fired it and him that stopped it. This document will be my ticket to immortality. It'll inspire people to say of me, "There was an artist who died before his time." Will you do it, Duke?
Duke Mantee: I'll be glad to.
Mantee does kill Squier.
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