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James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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In honor of Memorial Day weekend, here are a few stars who served in the military.

William Holden (US Army Air Corps), Paul Newman (US Navy), Steve McQueen (Marine Corps), Rock Hudson (US Navy), Elvis Presley (US Army), Tony Curtis (US Navy), Clark Gable (US Army Air Corps), Humphrey Bogart (US Navy), and James Stewart (US Army Air Corps).

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Favorite Films → In a Lonely Place (1950)

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. 

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There was a period in American history when you couldn’t pick up a goddamned magazine without seeing my kisser in it. —Humphrey Bogart

Nobody likes me on sight.  I suppose that’s why I’m cast as the heavy. —Humphrey Bogart

By the late thirties, Humphrey Bogart had started to cut a lonely and not particularly popular figure.  His constant complaints about the business of film-making led Raoul Walsh to nickname him ‘Bogie the Beefer’; his obstreperousness ranged from the witty and the impishly subversive (asked in a press release to list his ‘hobbies’ he offered ‘Paints floral designs on teacups’) to the kind of cantankerous and abusive behavior that had alienated Bette Davis on the set of The Petrified Forest.  James Cagney, with whom he remained on friendly but distant terms, once observed, ‘Not many people liked him, and he knew it.  He said, “I beat’ em to it…I don’t like them first.”’

Humphrey Bogart takes a picture of his dog.

Humphrey Bogart checking out the book of his film, Dark Passage (1947).

While filming To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart became enchanted with Lauren Bacall.  This became apparent, according to Bacall, about three weeks into the shooting of the picture.  Immediately it presented problems, because Bogart was still married to Mayo Methot, who was as watchful and as jealous as ever.  A few weeks earlier, when he was congratulating Bacall on her screen test (which consisted of the famous ‘If you want me, just whistle’ scene), his prescient comment had been ‘We’ll have a lot of fun together,’ but for a while it seemed as if fun was the last thing on their agenda: they would drive their cars to secluded residential streets and sit holding hands and talking, or write each other long, ardent, frustrated letters.  And when shooting on To Have and Have Not was over, they had no further excuse for being together.  Fortunately fate was quick to step in, in the kindly guise of Howard Hawks and Warners executives, who were so pleased with the on-screen chemistry between the two stars that they decided to waste no time before pairing them again.  In October 1944 they began filming  their second film The Big Sleep where they resumed their affair with a vengeance.

Humphrey Bogart with his son Stephen and his Oscar for The African Queen.