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For countless millions, Humphrey Bogart's screen performances and real-life persona merged to make him one of the world's most fabled figures—a legend of mythic proportions. Or, as his Sam Spade would have put it—the stuff that dreams are made of. But for his only son, Stephen, eight years old in 1957 when his father died of lung cancer, Humphrey Bogart's giant shadow was a burden he carried until he finally came to understand the private
...14) Casablanca
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
17) Humphrey Bogart
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Faber and Faber, Inc
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2010.
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"Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it."
He became a legend as "Bogie," the world-weary, wisecracking outsider, but in reality, Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class, yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the Rat...
