Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.
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Humphrey Bogart
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Huston
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ed Sullivan
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film features footage from several rarely seen Bogart movies as well as outtakes from titles The Big Sleep (1946) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), behind-the-scenes footage from Beat the Devil (1953) and The African Queen (1951) (private tape filmed by Bacall herself) and a brief clip from a costume test for the never-filmed Melville Goodwin, USA.
- Quotes
John Huston: He's a much bigger star today than when he was alive. He has become what amounts to a cult figure.
- ConnectionsFeatures Broadway's Like That (1930)
- SoundtracksI Wanna Go Back to Bali
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played during a clip from King of the Underworld (1939)
Featured review
Thorough coverage of Bogart's film career
This 90 minute documentary covers the entirety of Bogart's career, and some of his personal life, in particular his childhood and his marriage to the narrator, Lauren Bacall. It shows some clips of some rarely seen stuff from the early 30's that Bogart did including his first film, "Broadway's Like That", which was a short he did with Ruth Etting. The sound disc for that Vitaphone short is lost but the video survives, so we do get a look at Bogart's early on-stage persona as a smiling likable good guy. He played these types up until his first big break when he played Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" in 1936. It talks all about the roles he took on reluctantly as a Warner contract player, his big break in the early 40's with "High Sierra", and is honest about the films he did that were either not that good or not that well received. Also contributing are interviews with director John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, and others who worked with Bogart through the years. One fact really struck me while watching this that really had nothing to do with Bogart himself - how George Raft's bad decision making in handling his own career really benefited Bogart. Raft was the lead in "They Drive By Night" with his name in larger print and above Bogart's in the credits. By turning down the lead in both "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon" he enabled Bogart to become a star while setting his own career on the road to oblivion.
If you want to know all about Bogart the actor and some about Bogart the person, this is a good documentary. Do note that Ms. Bacall does not go into the details of Bogart's earlier marriages. Highly recommended for the film history buff.
If you want to know all about Bogart the actor and some about Bogart the person, this is a good documentary. Do note that Ms. Bacall does not go into the details of Bogart's earlier marriages. Highly recommended for the film history buff.
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- AlsExGal
- Dec 4, 2009
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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