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Tough without a gun : the life and extraordinary afterlife of Humphrey Bogart / Stefan Kanfer

By:

Kanfer, Stefan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780307271006

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 BOG

LOC classification:

PN2287.B48 K36 2011

Contents:

The end depends on the beginning -- Let me know when you want to be killed -- Incorrodible as a zinc bar -- Bogart can be tough without a gun -- May you never die till I kill you -- Cut the gab and bring me an order of fried rabbit -- There's nothing you can do about it. Nothing! -- Storm-tossed by fate -- Breathless -- The greatest gift.

Summary: After a privileged New York childhood as the son of famed illustrator Maud Humphrey, Bogart flunked out of Phillips Andover, joined the Navy near the end of WWI, and entered show business as a stage manager. Kanfer delivers compelling coverage of Bogart's early marriages and 13 years as a New York stage actor, culminating with The Petrified Forest, his 1935 Broadway breakthrough. Casablanca and other film classics are detailed with both illuminating insights and anecdotal accounts of Tinseltown. Raymond Chandler was pleased by the casting of The Big Sleep because, he wrote, "Bogart can be tough without a gun." By the mid-1940s, Bogart was the world's highest paid actor, with a resume of 19 plays and 53 films.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 BOG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011099

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.

After a privileged New York childhood as the son of famed illustrator Maud Humphrey, Bogart flunked out of Phillips Andover, joined the Navy near the end of WWI, and entered show business as a stage manager. Kanfer delivers compelling coverage of Bogart's early marriages and 13 years as a New York stage actor, culminating with The Petrified Forest, his 1935 Broadway breakthrough. Casablanca and other film classics are detailed with both illuminating insights and anecdotal accounts of Tinseltown. Raymond Chandler was pleased by the casting of The Big Sleep because, he wrote, "Bogart can be tough without a gun." By the mid-1940s, Bogart was the world's highest paid actor, with a resume of 19 plays and 53 films.

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