- Published: 27 August 2009
- ISBN: 9780141931470
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 128
Humphrey Bogart (Great Stars)
'He's not just insightful; he's also searingly funny' John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle
'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.'
He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the rat pack and met four wives on set - including his great love, Lauren Bacall - yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of film's most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinema's greatest icon.
- Published: 27 August 2009
- ISBN: 9780141931470
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 128
About the author
David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.
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