HUMPHREY DEFOREST BOGART

American actor.

Hemfi Bogart was born in 1899, on Christmas Day, New York, in a very wealthy family - his father was a surgeon, his mother was making a fashion magazine. He studied at one of the privileged private schools, pets her wore blue blazer, as at Eton. For twenty years has participated in productions of plays on Broadway, a small, swinging a tennis racket in them in the background. Already in his youth knew Bogart - he should not play the sort of representative of the beau monde. A lot of time he spent in front of a mirror, producing a sneer, threatening and sarcastic grins smile. Despite an aversion to dirty swearing, obscenities lard it. When once a woman, a former crazy about him, said he was a true gentleman, Humphrey immediately asked her not to develop a theme - not to damage his reputation. At the same time, like many other actors before and after him a little Bogart patch up his past. Being expelled from school for laziness and truancy, he later chose to mention - its de fired for what had to dip into the pond nepolyubivshegosya teacher.

Attempted a couple of times good luck in Hollywood, he suffered a humiliating fiasco. The Great Depression found him in New York. In the thirties he lost his job and was forced, wandering on dubious brothels, play chess or bridge for money to make at least a few dollars. It must have been such a life is strengthened persistence Humphrey.

The sudden appearance of Humphrey in the play "The Petrified Forest" in 1934 on Broadway, there was no accident - it was noticed when he looked into the theater with his girlfriend, which was related to the formulation. He desperately needed a big role and for the sake of this short haircut and dressed up poorer in order to give himself the form of a typical villain.

The right to stage the film based on the play bought "Warner Brothers", one of the powerful Hollywood companies. He was offered the role of vicious killers, and since then the notion of "Humphrey Bogart" began to come into use of world cinema. Between 1932 and 1942, the years he appeared on screen in the 36 tapes, and in 22 of them were shot, hanged, imprisoned in the electric chair or thrown into prison.

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Most of these films with titles such as "School crime" or "carousing and swindler" in studio "Warner Brothers" sculpted by a single pattern. And in accordance to their "tough guy" is not without irony Bogart described how to grow into those roles: "I twisted his lower lip, the words tsedil through his teeth, pull my hat to most eyes, lifted the collar of his jacket and shoved his right hand in his pocket, as if clutching the gun. As such, he hid behind a corner or climbed on the roof until, until I was sick and tired of playing villains. "

However, Bogart stand out even in these minor films. He was not overacted, not choked with passion, but just stood there and played it for his face and especially eyes.

About Humphrey said that unlike many other artists, he could seem "cool", even without taking the gun. He did not "beat" the competition by their physical characteristics (his height 175 cm and weighs only 70 kilograms), life has always avoided fist fights and never came out the winner of the fight. But forced himself to live a life of its corresponding on-screen appearance, and, therefore, always been tough, cold-mocking, smoked cigarettes, one after another and spent all night getting drunk with pals in bars. "I do not trust anyone else who does not drink" - often he would say. By 1941, when Bogart had played a major role in the movie "The Maltese Falcon", it was believed that he was - a true favorite of fortune, lucky. But he increasingly felt the loneliness.

He and Jack Warner, head of the "Warner Brothers" hated each other. Under the contract, Bogart was obliged to take part in the film, which picked him for Warner. And for the most part - quite rightly - Humphrey believed that similar roles below its potential. He rarely socialized with other actors. His abrupt directness, a tendency to poison jokes, aversion to empty chatter created in Hollywood, very hostile attitude towards him, and in this city of ostentatious glitter and tinsel were supposed to play by the established film companies rules. Bogart had seen in the Hollywood community gathering of thieves, gangsters, vulgar nouveaux riches, derided the power of newspaper columnists, eating dirty collection of gossip, and with the utmost contempt for any kind of perceived hype.

Hosts Hollywood could not safely be taken to so irreverent perception of generally accepted norms of behavior in their yard. Bogart began to repair the intrigues, the media scolded him for shooting in countless second-rate films, and when he refused such roles, he was threatened breach of contract. Roles in "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon," which brought him worldwide fame, Bogart was only because all other movie stars of "Warner" had to refuse them.

By that time, "tough guy" had very few friends, but in addition it is very unfortunate married. His mother, a woman who has a strong will and loved to command, brought her son in the spirit of its own conservative beliefs, but in real life, let him communicate with the maids. It is not surprising that Bogart grew up in admiration for the strong independent natures, but at the same time thought - a woman's place in the home. His first wife, actress Helen Menken, divorced from Humphrey in 1927, having lived with him only ten months in fierce quarrels over the fact that she left her career. A second marriage to actress Mary Philips lasted eight years, although in fact broken up long before the divorce. In 1938 he married again, this time on pyshnotelye blonde and sheer fury on behalf of Mayo Meto, also an actress. Shot it in the roles of cruel, cranky women with Napoleonic habits and life is very suitable for their on-screen stereotype - grumpy, rude, aggressive and clearly wants to dominate. This pair became known as "combat Bogart. " During their frequent quarrels of drunken Bogart trying to escape from his wife under the table, shouting the mantra: "All About? Okay, dear, now we stolkuemsya! . . " In most cases, Mayo kick would put the spouse on the floor.

In the early days of living together Bogart found militancy of his wife sexually exciting, the behavior is somehow liberating and himself. Their quarreling became a public way for him to show his contempt for hypocritical tenets of Hollywood. He bought a motor boat and dubbed it "a fighter" - in honor of his temperamental life partner. But, like all his previous wife, Mayo Meto valued his artistic career.

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And because of its affairs on the set fell into decay, while Bogart became more famous, she began to seek solace in alcohol - in increasing quantities, it fueled her pity for herself. Mayo several times attempted suicide. Once wounded Bogart with a kitchen knife, so much so that he lost consciousness, happened, tried to set fire to a house or brandished a gun in the face of her husband.

The beginning of World War II allowed to leave the beaten Humphrey Bogart and down the trail and the gang of militants to take up the development role of the hero of the war - in movies like "Sahara" and "Battle of the North Atlantic. " But, of course, a stellar reputation as a romantic hero and made him shoot Superman in the movie "Casablanca" (often called the best film about the war in the history of cinema). But in real life, he still fought with his wife, no time is the presentation on his next movie drunk three sheets.

First meeting with the little-known actress Lauren Beykol with a star of first magnitude Humphrey Bogart was the most that on is trivial. New Record producer Howard Hawks, Lauren, followed his boss like a shadow, followed by admiring glances. Kind of shooting area, which then took off Michael Curtis "Passage to Marseille", made an impression on the girl's Cathedral, and Michelle Morgan, who was sitting on the stool, struck her as Madonna. Hawks then ran away on some business, asking Lauren to wait some time in the company of Humphrey Bogart.

Broad-shouldered, charming, with a charming smile Bogart won her. They exchanged a few jokes and a handshake. Then none of them did not have any apprehensions.

As Bogart later recalled: "She was not more than 19 years, she came in gabardine skirt and sweater. She spoke a little on the nose and then seemed to me like a long pole. She wanted only one thing that I have not chased her to give her a chance. " And she got the chance - in the film "To have or not have" on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Bogart played the role of Morgan, an American, a rough sea dog with a heart of gold. The heroine Lauren Beykol - Marie.

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In the tight skirt and tight hip jacket with padded shoulders - a symbol of what was then the fashion. According to the scenario the hero and heroine feel a mutual attraction to each other from the first minute of the meeting. After defiantly daring verbal duels Marie herself sits on his lap, kissing him and with naive effrontery says: "It would be even better if you answer me!" When Morgan did not respond to her kiss, she said the words became famous: "Do not say anything and do anything. Nothing at all. Or, maybe just whistle! Can you whistle? It's so simple - to add his lips and whistle . . . "

Bogart then gave Beykol gold embossed with the whistle, "If you want something, just whistle. "

Lauren Humphrey became a time bomb. "I think we have much fun together well," - somehow dropped it. These words caused her to break out. First arrived on set, she was very nervous. But Bogart, as a gentleman, did his best to calm her down. Very soon Beykol realized that surrounded the great. In addition to Howard, and the gods, she often saw William Faulkner working on the script. Every day, the Hawks gathered his actors. First, they read your text, then a scene played out as long as the Hawks did not begin to organize.

Within three weeks of shooting between Bogart and Lauren nothing unusual had happened. They became friends at work and felt each other mutual respect. Everything changed one night. Beykol thoughtfully combing her hair, sitting in front of a mirror in his room. Bogart, as usual, came to wish her good night, but instead to leave, suddenly leaned forward and kissed her. The girl was stunned. And he handed her an old, soft case of points (in another version - boxes) and asked to write to him her phone number. What she did with a beating heart. On Humphrey's wife she preferred not to think.

In the following weeks and Bogart Beykol breakfast together, having fun, a few times and had dinner every night talking on the phone. The gods were not particularly secretive, but he preferred caution. Bogart and his wife, Mayo wonder for the eye called "Bogart-fighter.

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" One well-wisher warned the young actress: "Soon you can become a cripple," - referring to the steep nature spouse Humphrey.

It seemed the whole world was against the two lovers. Their relationship has already been made public, but, moreover, the mother Loren looked at his daughter's love is very frowned upon. Even the Hawks, who had recently other great future for his discovery, Lauren, demanded that the old fellow gods placed her on the ship, reprimanded and evicted, and the whole history has made a joke. And yet he was struck by her talent actress and realized that out of it quite get something to match Bogart - enslaver of high class with a few grim sense of humor. Later, he said: "Few actors can remain calm when some girl is literally stealing from them the scene. But then he falls in love with this girl, and she to him, and the situation is simpler. "

Indeed, and Bogart, and Beykol this novel was very beneficial. For Gods and Lauren was a godsend, because to her he did not know the normal relationships with women. She was very calm, sympathetic, and sometimes just getting to him a lifeline. As for Lauren, then it was something special, not like those with whom she had known before, and, as mentioned in the famous scene from the "Port of fear" ("Have and Have Not"), it was ready to come running if he whistled to her. As for the age difference of a quarter-century, it did not care. To complete the picture, they called each other the names of his characters: it is his - Steve, he did - Slim, Slim and if not, then just baby. If not for the ominous shadow of Mayo, life would be just wonderful.

But that's finished shooting, the Hawks were pleased with the tyrannical Jack Warner, too, Bogart was happy just Beykol worried. It seemed to her that it's over and becomes a par with the other love stories, as would the Hawks. But she was wrong. A week after leaving Bogart sent a first letter, then the second, third and so on. "Baby, I thought it would never be able to love . . . Slim, all the love that is within me, your . . . "

One night in the house of Lauren telephone rang.

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Of course, it was the gods. Of course, absolutely drunk. "I decided to get to the city on foot. Come with me, I'm on the 101-m road. " Despite the protests of his mother, Lauren took her car and spent a few hours to find Bogart. For the first time she saw him thus: soaked, drunk, with a huge sunflower in his lapel, crushed, destroyed after a scandal involving Mayo. For Lauren it was a man in her life, she was ready to endure everything.

They were invited to appear in the film "The Great Dream". Bogart once again took their positions. From the side of Hawks was a provocation - on trial, he invited Clark Gable. Lauren told me: "He was dazzling. I tried to flirt with him, but somehow it did not work. " Nothing could distract her from the gods. And he and his party are more imbued with the thought that it must associate with his life but he was trapped. While in Hollywood for adultery had to pay dearly. The next few months resembled a real bullfight. Mayo became uncontrollable, she just went crazy. Each contract offered by "Warner Brothers" certainly contained a special clause on moral behavior. Bogart sometimes broke and spent the night in drinking.

All these terrible troubles ended marriage. They - she in pink, gray in it - finally exchanged gold rings day in May, 1945, surrounded by family and best friends. The gods gave his wife a gold whistle, and Jack Warner - a luxurious black open "Buick. "

Beykol was a wife, of which Humphrey could not have dreamed of. With common sense, she decided to forget about his own career, a home comfort for her husband, who in 1947 earned more than other actors.

Naturally, they all turned out to be similar. But as well said Hollywood movie star Katharine Hepburn co-starred with Bogart in the movie "African Queen", "even when they quarreled among them maintained full confidence in each other. They made it with the grace of two cats trapped in a cage. "

The luxurious house Bogart often called, organized a party that was new for Humphrey. None of his wives had not summon the guests. Lauren reveled in wealth.

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She did not have to wear cheap clothes, she could afford to decorate the house antiques, buy fancy book. Bogart, meanwhile continued his career as an artist.

January 6, 1949 was born their first-born, Steve. We can not say that Bogart was an ideal couple. There were evenings when he came home dead drunk, had been in the morning when she went out to lunch in tears. But still . . . Bogart and Lauren Beykol were together for twelve years. Of these, at least the first nine were probably the happiest time in my life "tough" Humphrey. At times he showed himself to be a fair grumblers, but it also was part of their life together. When Beykol bought their last house, mansion in Los Angeles, he said: "I could buy a whole foreign power for the money, which cost me the estate. "

In 1952, a 28-year-old Lauren gave birth to a baby Leslie. Bogart almost ashamed of luxury that surrounded him. But he was happy. He had just received the "Oscar" for "African Queen". Beykol meantime, along with Marilyn Monroe starred in "How to Marry a Millionaire. " Warner offered to the gods and Lauren is another joint project, but he was not destined to become a reality. In 1954, the set of "Barefoot Countess," where Bogart played with Ava Gardner, his work began to interfere with a debilitating cough. In 1956 he was diagnosed with - cancer of the esophagus. Lauren Beykol concealed it from her husband until the end.

Bogart lasted ten months, sarcastically, chuckling about his health and making plans for the future. According to the famous English critic Kenneth Tayena, Humphrey Bogart so often die on the screen that the audience has to believe that in fact he apparently immortal.

Beykol was with him until the last minute . . .