Humphrey Bogart
The Making of a Legend
Darwin Porter
Startling new information about Golden Age Hollywood (and the career debut of its most iconic male actor) you've never seen before.
Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood during Prohibition and the Jazz Age.
This radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's pioneering biographies begins with Bogart's origins as the child of wealthy (morphine-addicted) parents in New York City, then examines the scandals, love affairs, breakthrough successes, and failures that launched Bogart on the road to becoming an American icon. Drawn from original interviews with friends and foes who knew a lot about what lay beneath his trenchcoat, this exposé covers Bogart's life from his birth in 1899 till his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. It includes details about behind-the-scenes dramas associated with three mysterious marriages, and films such as The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, and Casablanca. Read all about the debut and formative years of the actor who influenced many generations of filmgoers, laying Bogie's life bare in a style you've come to expect from Darwin Porter. Exposed with all the juicy details is what Bogie never told his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, herself a screen legend.
This revelatory book is based on dusty, unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and often personal interviews from the women—and the men—who adored him. There are also shocking allegations from colleagues, former friends, and jilted lovers who wanted the screen icon to burn in hell. All this and more, much more, in Darwin Porter’s celebrity exposé, Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend.
"Although it's laced with gossippy gens, it also paints a sympathetic portrait of Bogart as a loyal friend who went out of his way to help others…He also had some scandalous skeletons in his closet." THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart, by the same author)
"Darwin Porter has written a blockbuster book. In it, we learn about how he struggled for stardom in the "anything goes" era of the Roaring 20s, how Hollywood made him a phony war hero, about his bisexual wife and Talullah Bankhead, and how George Raft made him a tough guy." THE GLOBE (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor by the same author, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart)
Here, an extraordinary new biography drawing on a wealth of previously unseen material. -- LONDON'S MAIL ON SUNDAY (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor by the same author, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart)
This radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's pioneering biographies begins with Bogart's origins as the child of wealthy (morphine-addicted) parents in New York City, then examines the scandals, love affairs, breakthrough successes, and failures that launched Bogart on the road to becoming an American icon. Drawn from original interviews with friends and foes who knew a lot about what lay beneath his trenchcoat, this exposé covers Bogart's life from his birth in 1899 till his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. It includes details about behind-the-scenes dramas associated with three mysterious marriages, and films such as The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, and Casablanca. Read all about the debut and formative years of the actor who influenced many generations of filmgoers, laying Bogie's life bare in a style you've come to expect from Darwin Porter. Exposed with all the juicy details is what Bogie never told his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, herself a screen legend.
This revelatory book is based on dusty, unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and often personal interviews from the women—and the men—who adored him. There are also shocking allegations from colleagues, former friends, and jilted lovers who wanted the screen icon to burn in hell. All this and more, much more, in Darwin Porter’s celebrity exposé, Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend.
"Although it's laced with gossippy gens, it also paints a sympathetic portrait of Bogart as a loyal friend who went out of his way to help others…He also had some scandalous skeletons in his closet." THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart, by the same author)
"Darwin Porter has written a blockbuster book. In it, we learn about how he struggled for stardom in the "anything goes" era of the Roaring 20s, how Hollywood made him a phony war hero, about his bisexual wife and Talullah Bankhead, and how George Raft made him a tough guy." THE GLOBE (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor by the same author, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart)
Here, an extraordinary new biography drawing on a wealth of previously unseen material. -- LONDON'S MAIL ON SUNDAY (in reference to this title's 2003 predecessor by the same author, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart)
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Harcover 9781936003143 $27.95 E-Book 9781936003242 $0 -
Category Biography Publication Date 2010-09-01 -
Publication Status Forthcoming Trim Size 6x9 Page Count 500
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