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Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) [1] [2] was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. He had been born into an affluent family in New York's Upper West Side, [3] the first-born child and only son of illustrator Maud Humphrey and physician Belmont DeForest Bogart. [1]
The Maltese Falcon, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only full-length novel by Hammett in which Spade appears. The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction— Raymond Chandler 's Philip Marlowe , for instance, was strongly ...
Fred Sexton (right) and The Maltese Falcon director John Huston, c. 1960. Fred Sexton, an American artist, sculpted the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the film. [21] The "Maltese Falcon" itself was based on the "Kniphausen Hawk", [citation needed] a ceremonial pouring vessel made in 1697 for Georg Wilhelm von Kniphausen, Count of the Holy ...
The iconic private detective famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon is coming to AMC in Monsieur Spade (premiering this Sunday at 9/8c), with Clive Owen taking on the role.
Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Philip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films. In 1947, he played a war hero in another noir, Dead Reckoning, tangled in a dangerous web of brutality and violence as he investigates his friend's murder, co-starring Lizabeth Scott.
Hollywood couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are most well-known for films they starred in during the 1940s, but their son, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, is still shocked that his parent’s ...
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The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946–1949, and finally for 75 episodes on NBC in 1949–1951.