Posted on 07/04/2013 4:56:50 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
c. 1918: Humphrey Bogart in the Navy
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As an old-time Tin Can sailor, one of my favorite movies
My immigrant grandmother arrived in NYC July 4th 1914 on the German liner SS Vaterland. It was seized by the United States in 1917 and renamed the USS Leviathan. Humphrey Bogart served on this ship during World War I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Leviathan
Can anyone familiar with the Navy tell me what his rating was?
Sailor? I always thought of them all that way. My Marine buddies called them Seagoing Bellhops, of course (ducking).
One of my favorites as well. There is a lot to learn from that movie. I particularly appreciated the lawyer’s observations about serving under captains, and how you don’t get to choose. You take what you get and you learn to deal with it as best you can.
I love the way the movie ends when LTJG Keith finds himself again under the command of Captain DeVriess. The lesson is, no matter how bad your skipper is, you learn to deal with it, because no matter what, it can ALWAYS be worse!
Either Boatswain Mate or undesignated seaman. It is kind of blurry.
Hard to tell, but looks like a Bosun’s Mate.
Wasn’t Fred MacMurray a conservative Republican?
From the first picture, it appears he has the crossed anchors of a boatswain’s mate. The eagle above, or “crow,” would suggest he’s a petty officer, probably a third class, but I can’t make out the number of chevrons.
He liked little girls, she liked big girls.
she got around. And he usually preferred ‘em younger...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich#Private_life
MANY of the old school hollywood men were vets.
His father was a prominent society doctor, so I find it unlikely that he was unattended as a child.
Disgusting that this pedophile received so much adulation.
Great post. Bogart has always been a favorite actor of mine.
Can anyone familiar with the Navy tell me what his rating was?
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LCDR....LT COMMANDER SAME AS MAJOR IN OTHER branches
oh, you mean the ‘other’ picture...
Looks like BM3, the diamond below probably specialty rate, someone mentioned him being Helmsman so that may be it.
Doubt any hashmarks, they indicate probably only did a few years.
Yes. Owned a fair portion of what today is Pasadena too. Had the foresight to see the direction the population was moving. Said to have been one of richest men in show biz.
But when he lied on the stand in the Caine Mutiny, well, I don't care if I liked his brother's hair cut, (Uncle Charlie), I hated the SOB. :-)
Heres another famous actor who was in the Navy during WWI:
He mentored an upcoming promising actor in 1930's Hollywood by the name of John Wayne. Most people recognize him as sheriff Micah on The Rifleman.
Ah yes, the Caine mutiny. I’m a movie star! It was in the scene where junior officers went to see the admiral. They painted a “34” on the bow so it looked like the Oriscany. Really it was the USS Kearsarge, just one of the carriers in Task force 77. I was one of several sailors running across the flight deck. Which reminds me. I never did get paid for my acting career.
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