![]() ![]() Bogart are those which paint him as a 'loner', a man of 'self determination' who makes 'all his own decisions' with regard for nothing beyond immediate satisfaction. ![]() The youngest strokes in the portrait of St. In the ten years since his death in 1957, with no more effort than it takes to type the comic-strip dream of a little boy's hero, biographers catering to the Bogey Cult have transformed him into a cinematic saint, in whom I can find scarcely a trace of the Humphrey I first knew in 1924 or the Bogey I last saw in 1943. HUMPHREY BOGART SPENT THE LAST twenty-one years of his life laboriously converting the established character of a middle-aged man from that of a conventional, well-bred theatre actor named Humphrey to that which complemented his film roles�a rebellious tough known as Bogey. (This is also one of the essays in "Lulu in Hollywood", which I highly recommend.) ![]() HUMPHREY & BOGEY Sight and Sound, Winter 1966/67, Volume 36 Number 1 ![]()
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