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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 first was for the Silver Theater broadcast on the CBS radio network on February 1, 1942, with Bogart as star. [32] Philip Morris Playhouse staged an adaptation August 14, 1942, with Edward Arnold starring. [33] CBS later created a 30-minute adaptation for The Screen Guild Theater with Bogart, Astor, Greenstreet and Lorre all reprising their ...
From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of The Maltese Falcon. [5] Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic ...
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.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was born on December 27, 1879, in Eastry, Kent, [1] the son of Ann (née Baker) and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner.He had seven siblings. He left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business.
British actor Daniel Day-Lewis said that his second Oscar-winning performance as vicious oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood was heavily inspired by Bogart's portrayal of Fred C. Dobbs. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film is one of the few that have an approval rating of 100% , based on 55 reviews, and an average rating of 9.3/10. [ 3 ]
When Winchell could not get the time off to make the film, Wallis offered it to George Raft, and then, when Raft turned it down, to Bogart. [3] It was one of several parts Bogart played which had originally been offered to Raft. [5] Olivia de Havilland and Marlene Dietrich were considered for the female lead. [6]
A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...