10 Things: Humphrey Bogart

Posted by Dave on December 25, 2012
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  1. Born: December 25, 1899, in New York City
  2. Expelled from: Yale
  3. Served: in the U.S. Navy
  4. Stage debut: as a Japanese butler in the play, Drifting
  5. First film role: in the two-reel DANCING LADY, with Helen Hayes
  6. Founding member: of the “Rat Pack”, along with Frank Sinatra and others
  7. Organized: the Committee for the First Amendment, in opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee
  8. Fun fact: appeared as a baby in an ad for Mellins Baby Food, illustrated by his mother
  9. Academy Award: Best Actor for THE AFRICAN QUEEN
  10. On his sailing yacht, the Santana: “An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.”

Bogart and Lauren Bacall in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944):

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