they never know what the right parts for them are. And Bogart goes on and on. Until one day, he runs across a man -- a young man, screenwriter named John Huston. And Huston is working on a gangster film about an elderly gangster, a veteran, who's let out of jail and goes on the run, is killed
in the end, but is a gangster who is sympathetic. And Huston says, "You know, it's sort of a quality Bogart 's got. Bogart 's nasty, but you sort of know Bogart wants to be liked." And they put him in a film called High Sierra, 1941, and it begins to happen. Bogart relaxes, because he knows that the
And I'm going to go back and forth. Zander Bogarts -- I see some heads nodding.
And I'm going to go back and forth. Zander Bogarts is the shortstop for the Red Sox, and he doesn't hit a whole lot of home runs.
Right off, the lyrics, for instance, there's, you know, tunes in jazz, a lot of the jazz standard songs -- or are regarded as standards come from the pop repertoire of Humphrey Bogart 's time etc. or something like that and they have lyrics like, "The very thought of you makes my heart sing like an April breeze on the wind of spring
OK. So Humphrey Bogart . Everybody here has seen Humphrey Bogart movies? OK. I'm sorry, this is the audience interaction part of our event today.
Straight away, Huston, who wants to direct, takes him up and puts him in a film called The Maltese Falcon, playing a private eye named Sam Spade who behaves like a gangster. And you have this image building -- Bogart 's really not aware of it -- of a new kind of guy, tough, hard-boiled, mean, sarcastic, needling other people, goading other people,
When he really puts it to the woman? When he really tells Mary Astor what a shit she is in The Maltese Falcon? Don't you think Bogart 's never been better?" And this turns into the Humphrey Bogart that you all know. And it reaches its sort of epitome in films like Casa Blanca, again.
Simply astonishing. I just couldn't believe this. OK. So Humphrey Bogart . Everybody here has seen Humphrey Bogart movies?
And if you go back again to one of the great shows of British television, a man with terrible psoriasis lying in a hospital bed, fantasizing of being the coolest detective this side of Humphrey Bogart in the 1930s. He fantasizes the opposite state for himself.
I was, like, I think I want to do sound engineering again. So I'm sitting at this little bar called Bogart 's on the Landing on the river front, and I looked to my left, and David Lee Roth sits down right next to me, right?
house. And there were six writers at Warner Brothers, let's say, employed full-time as screenwriters. And one of their chief tasks would be a Bette Davis picture, or a Bogart picture. And of course, the writers know the types they're working for. They know the kind of film Bette Davis appears in where Bette challenges men as really no one else did on the screen in those days.
working folks ricardo's was a great restaurant here it was that writers actors activists of old stripe gathered it was ricardo who broke the loop color of line the role humphrey bogart played in casablanca was really our ricardo that he was called rick was a happy accident and of course the lobby of the wells
I cannot tell you that either one of them was totally faithful to the other through the short years of their marriage, because Bogart was dead by 1957, but still, it was an extraordinary union and marriage. And it made Bogart a star when his career, in fact, was about two-thirds over. So those are the two stories that I have time to tell you that show you what a very strange business stardom can be.
And then, when they start to make the film, you go on set, and Bogart sees the photographer, Sid Peacock, let's say, who has photographed him six times already. In other words, he knows how you photograph Bogart . So that -- the costume department knows how you dress him, so the backup that went with
that women were oftentimes the backbones to these families and kind of exploring what that meant as we moved down the line. I feel like I'm bogarting . Do you have a question you want to ask?
And things are happening that are affecting us. And the thing I love about the noir detective, whether it's Bogart , or Nicholson, or whatever, is that they're not really moralists. They're not crusaders. They're certainly not polemicists.
And I thought, he's going to give me some esoteric practice or something. So we put up pictures of famous dead smokers in the smoker's room, of Humphrey Bogart , and Marlene Dietrich, and all kinds of movie stars.
OK. I'm sorry, this is the audience interaction part of our event today. OK. So tell me the name of a Humphrey Bogart movie you know? "Casablanca." "Casablanca." Good. "Maltese Falcon." "Maltese Falcon." Keep going.
I had insomnia one night. I woke up in the middle of the night and I'm watching this movie called "The Black Legion" where Humphrey Bogart is a black-shirted American fascist who kills his Polish neighbor because his Polish neighbor has taken his job.
And we know this from other narratives. One of my favorite American films, "Casablanca," the Humphrey Bogart character, Rick, says I stick my neck out for nobody. And that is a way of making your way in this world, right?
She showed me the long, open wards that go all the way back to when monks took care of the sick poor in the monasteries for free. When went upstairs and she showed me the surgery suite, which looks like where Humphrey Bogart had his face redone in "Man Without a Face." We walked past the old-fashioned beauty salon with its steel helmet hairdryers.
One story. We're going to have time for two of these good stories. Humphrey Bogart . Of the four people I've written about, Humphrey Bogart was the only one who was remotely upper class -- came from a good family, a moneyed family. His mother was an illustrator for popular magazines, and she used young Humphrey as her model. And Bogart goes on the stage, and nobody can
quality Bogart 's got. Bogart 's nasty, but you sort of know Bogart wants to be liked." And they put him in a film called High Sierra, 1941, and it begins to happen. Bogart relaxes, because he knows that the script likes his character. He treats people badly in the film -- he kills people and so on and so forth, but film is on his side.
And I'm going to go back and forth. Now, those of you who are Red Sox fans might know who Zander Bogarts is.
And I'm going to go back and forth. If you watch a lot of baseball, you'll see Zander Bogarts is much different than Jose Bautista.
And all of a sudden, you find out why he is that way. A lot of people made the mistake of thinking that it was but it actually was designed for the people that were going to see the latest Bogart movie as a little mint
actually, I wrote about after he left Google and started to work for Obama for the campaign. Google? Steven Levy: Both companies are dramatically different. Ironically, there was a moment in time when it looked like this would-- Apple and Google were gonna be Humphrey Bogart and
He was born in World War II-era London, when movies like Red River, The Third Man, and Susan Cain first ignited his passion for film as a child. Today, he'll talk about his latest series called 'Great Stars' where he examines the back stories of Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and Gary Cooper and the films that made them legendary. Please give a hand for David Thomson.
Selznick says, "You're pure. You're wonderful. You're true." She says, "Well, I'm not really -- not at all." But they make her that, and it makes her for a few years, and then, it destroys her. One story. We're going to have time for two of these good stories. Humphrey Bogart . Of the four people I've written about, Humphrey Bogart was the only one who was remotely upper class -- came from a good family, a moneyed family.
Of the four people I've written about, Humphrey Bogart was the only one who was remotely upper class -- came from a good family, a moneyed family. His mother was an illustrator for popular magazines, and she used young Humphrey as her model. And Bogart goes on the stage, and nobody can place him. They try to place him as a young, romantic lead, because he looks quite good. But he doesn't smile very well.
guy, tough, hard-boiled, mean, sarcastic, needling other people, goading other people, but instead of the audience disapproving of him, which had happened all through the '30s, they sort of start saying, "Don't you like Bogart when he's like that? When he really puts it to the woman? When he really tells Mary Astor what a shit she is in The Maltese Falcon? Don't you think Bogart 's never been better?"
but instead of the audience disapproving of him, which had happened all through the '30s, they sort of start saying, "Don't you like Bogart when he's like that? When he really puts it to the woman? When he really tells Mary Astor what a shit she is in The Maltese Falcon? Don't you think Bogart 's never been better?" And this turns into the Humphrey Bogart that you all know.
One film that figures in the career of both people. To Have and Have Not, and The Big Sleep. And all of a sudden, Bogart is established. And as if you never have the courage to believe in magic, this man who has had a disastrous series of marriages, in one of these films, To Have and Have Not, finds himself playing
think, probably the most romantic, smoke-enshrouded coupling that Hollywood ever put together. I cannot tell you that either one of them was totally faithful to the other through the short years of their marriage, because Bogart was dead by 1957, but still, it was an extraordinary union and marriage. And it made Bogart a star when his career, in fact, was about two-thirds over. So those are the two stories that I have time
So they look for parts like that, for roles like that. And then, when they start to make the film, you go on set, and Bogart sees the photographer, Sid Peacock, let's say, who has photographed him six times already. In other words, he knows how you photograph Bogart .