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To: fredhead

The Bogie film I want the most was only recently released on DVD.

The Petrified Forest, 1936, with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard


24 posted on 09/14/2005 10:03:57 AM PDT by djf (Government wants the same things I do - MY guns, MY property, MY freedoms!)
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To: djf

Bogie made 80 movies in his career, of which I have close to 75 on VHS. I only have a couple on DVD, and of the others I don't have, all but one are small parts he played in the early thirties BEFORE "The Petrified Forest" (great movie, Bogie's portrayal of Duke Mantee was described as evil personified). The one I can't find is his last movie, "The Harder They Fall", the only movie he made in 1956.

Leslie Howard got Bogie the role in "The Petrified Forest". They had performed together in the play on Broadway. Howard told Jack Warner, "No Bogart, no Howard". Warner wanted Eedward G. Robinson to play Mantee but wanted Howard more.

BTW, when Bogie and Bacall's daughter was born, they named her Leslie Howard Bogart. Their son was named Steven Humphrey Bogart, Steve after Bogie's character in "To Have and Have Not", the movie during the filming of that Bogie and Bacall fell in love.


32 posted on 09/14/2005 11:49:38 AM PDT by fredhead ("It is a good thing war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee)
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