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Book Sailing With Bogart

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  • Author : Larry Dudley
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
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  • ISBN : 0557433487
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Sailing With Bogart written by Larry Dudley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailing With Bogie

Download or read book Sailing With Bogie written by Larry Dudley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few people understand the magic of the sea... and very few people ever knew that the world's best known actor Humphrey Bogart spent much of his free time aboard his sailboat SANTANA. Bogie committed many years of study and practice to earn the reputation as one of the most accomplished racers and captains in the area. Fellow sailor Larry Dudley came to be Bogie's friend, cabin mate and confidant during their ten years together sailing and racing off the coast of Southern California. Years into their friendship, Dudley had just finished reading "The African Queen" when he told Bogie he thought there was a part in it for him... a prophetic fit for the man and the movie. These two men shared a love of the ocean and the fine vessels that traveled on the seas. Be it a long race around the islands or at anchor off a pebbled beach, Bogie felt at ease amongst the sailors and had earned their respect on and off the water. He referred to the SANTANA as "the other world" and revealed a side of himself to his sailing friends that no one else knew. "Sailing With Bogie" reveals insights into his wife Lauren Becall, Katherine Hepburn, Jack Warner, John Huston, Sterling Hayden and others. Read about Humphrey Bogart in a hidden life away from the Hollywood lights.

Book Tough Without a Gun

Download or read book Tough Without a Gun written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey Bogart: it’s hard to think of anyone who’s had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is it about Bogart, with his unconventional looks and noticeable speech impediment, that has captured our collective imagination for so long? In this definitive biography, Stefan Kanfer answers that question, along the way illuminating the private man Bogart was and shining the spotlight on some of the greatest performances ever captured on celluloid. Bogart fell into show business almost by accident and worked for nearly twenty years before becoming the star we know today. Born into a life of wealth and privilege in turn-of-the-century New York, Bogart was a troublemaker throughout his youth, getting kicked out of prep school and running away to join the navy at the age of nineteen. After a short, undistinguished stint at sea, Bogart spent his early twenties drifting aimlessly from one ill-fitting career to another, until, through a childhood friend, he got his first theater job. Working first as a stagehand and then, reluctantly, as a bit-part player, Bogart cut his teeth in one forgettable role after another. But it was here he began to develop a work ethic; deciding that there were “two kinds of men: professionals and bums,” Bogart, for the first time in his life, wanted to be the former. After the Crash of ’29, Bogart headed west to try his luck in Hollywood. That luck was scarce, and he slogged through more than thirty B-movie roles before his drinking buddy John Huston wrote him a part that would change everything; with High Sierra, Bogart finally broke through at the age of forty—being a pro had paid off. What followed was a string of movies we have come to know as the most beloved classics of American cinema: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The African Queen . . . the list goes on and on. Kanfer appraises each of the films with an unfailing critical eye, weaving in lively accounts of behind-the-scenes fun and friendships, including, of course, the great love story of Bogart and Bacall. What emerges in these pages is the portrait of a great Hollywood life, and the final word on why there can only ever be one Bogie.

Book Humphrey Bogart  A Journey from Broadway to Hollywood

Download or read book Humphrey Bogart A Journey from Broadway to Hollywood written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating journey of Humphrey Bogart, the iconic star whose transformative career reshaped the landscape of American cinema. "Humphrey Bogart: A Journey from Broadway to Hollywood" offers an in-depth exploration of the life, career, and legacy of one of Hollywood's most enduring figures. 🌟 Inside this illuminating read, you'll find: 🎭 The Broadway Beginnings: Dive into Bogart's early life, his family background, and his initial steps into the world of acting on the vibrant stages of New York. 🎬 The Hollywood Transition: Witness Bogart's pivotal decision to move to Hollywood, his early screen tests, and the struggles and adjustments in the burgeoning film industry. ⭐ Rise to Fame: Relive the breakthrough performances and key films that defined Bogart's career and earned him public and critical acclaim. 🔍 Iconic Roles and Film Noir: Explore Bogart's most iconic roles and his significant contribution to the film noir genre, complete with behind-the-scenes insights. 🎥 Bogart the Star: From peak career moments to high-profile collaborations, delve into Bogart's influence on film styles and acting methods. ❤️ Off-Screen Life and Persona: A glimpse into Bogart's personal life, relationships, and the contrast between his public persona and private world. 🌟 Legacy and Influence: Reflect on Bogart's enduring impact on future generations of actors and filmmakers and his iconic status in popular culture. 📚 "Humphrey Bogart: A Journey from Broadway to Hollywood" is a must-read for fans of classic cinema, aspiring actors, and anyone intrigued by the golden era of Hollywood. This book not only honors the legend but also provides an insightful look into the art and evolution of filmmaking.

Book Sailing s Strangest Tales

Download or read book Sailing s Strangest Tales written by John Harding and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000

Book Bogart  In Search of My Father

Download or read book Bogart In Search of My Father written by Stephen Humphrey Bogart and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless millions, Humphrey Bogart’s screen performances and real-life persona merged to make him one of the world’s most fabled figures—a legend of mythic proportions. Or, as his Sam Spade would have put it—the stuff that dreams are made of. But for his only son, Stephen, eight years old in 1957 when his father died of lung cancer, Humphrey Bogart’s giant shadow was a burden he carried until he finally came to understand the private man behind his father’s public face. And now, in this candid and insightful biography, Stephen Bogart explores and illuminates Humphrey Bogart’s life, work, and relationships as they never have been before. Writing with the encouragement of his famous mother, Lauren Bacall, Stephen calls on his memories, and take full advantage of the extraordinary access he has had to friends and colleagues of his father. The result is an intimate and personal profile of an enigmatic man whose tough image contrasted with very human ambitions and vulnerabilities. It is also a vastly entertaining book, filled with fascinating stories involving Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, “Swifty” Lazar, John Huston, Stephen Bogart’s stepfather, Jason Robards, and many others. Here is Humphrey Bogart, the pro’s pro on the set and the Hollywood renegade off it. The man’s man, the ladies’ man, the hard worker, and the man who liked to drink too much. The husband in three roller-coaster marriages and finally one perfect match, the proud father and absentee parent, the good friend and even better enemy. Here are eye-witness accounts of his most celebrated public misdeeds and moving testimonies of his most unexpected private moments. And finally, in perhaps the most compelling chapter of this shining saga, here is the close-up of Bogart’s last months, where his courage, dignity, and humor made his most stirring celluloid roles seem pale. Combining the drama of Humphrey Bogart’s life with that of a son whose path of reconciliation first had to move through a very difficult time, this is biography at its best—at once a loving tribute and a fascinating revelation. This ebook edition includes photographs directly from Stephen Bogart's personal collection.

Book Irresistible Force

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  • Author : D. D. Ayres
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 2014-08-26
  • ISBN : 146683983X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Irresistible Force written by D. D. Ayres and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incredible! You'll be on the edge of your seat to see if the heroine can make it out alive."-Catherine Coulter, New York Times bestselling author When adrenaline runs high, so does the force of desire... For Shay Appleton, it's love at first sight when a gorgeous stray dog is brought into the animal shelter where she works. She just knows he'll make a terrific watch dog-and with an abusive ex who won't let go, she needs all the protection she can get. But Shay never suspected that her new pet is actually a trained police K-9 named Bogart-until Bogart's even more gorgeous, human partner shows up on her doorstep. IRRESISTIBLE FORCE by D.D. Ayres Officer James Cannon is one tall, strong alpha male who's convinced that Shay stole his dog. But once he gets closer to the suspect, he realizes that this stubborn, independent woman not only needs a guard dog, she needs James as well. It seems that someone from her past is stalking her, and threatening her life. When danger meets desire, will James risk his career and his best friend...to protect the woman who's stolen his heart?

Book The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart

Download or read book The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography gives a controversial closeup of a young, hot and horny Bogart, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, pre-African Queen.

Book Bogie

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  • Author : Richard Schickel
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2006-12-12
  • ISBN : 9780312366292
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Bogie written by Richard Schickel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features photographs from the private archives of the Hollywood icon and includes coverage of his Oscar-winning performance in "The African Queen," his relationship with Lauren Bacall, and the ongoing legacy of "Casablanca."

Book Sailing on the Silver Screen

Download or read book Sailing on the Silver Screen written by Lawrence H. Suid and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the past 90 years, Hollywood has used the Navy to freely obtain personnel, equipment, and locations for movies filled with adventure, romance, and drama, while the Navy gained a public image that boosted its recruiting efforts and its relations with Congress. Although the Vietnam War dis

Book Who the Hell s in It

Download or read book Who the Hell s in It written by Peter Bogdanovich and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with Stella Adler (his work with her became the foundation for all he would ever do as an actor and a director). Now, in his new book, Who the Hell’s in It, Bogdanovich draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding of the art to write about the actors he came to know along the way; actors he admired from afar; actors he worked with, directed, befriended. Among them: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Frank Sinatra, and James Stewart. Bogdanovich captures—in their words and his—their work, their individual styles, what made them who they were, what gave them their appeal and why they’ve continued to be America’s iconic actors. On Lillian Gish: “the first virgin hearth goddess of the screen . . . a valiant and courageous symbol of fortitude and love through all distress.” On Marlon Brando: “He challenged himself never to be the same from picture to picture, refusing to become the kind of film star the studio system had invented and thrived upon—the recognizable human commodity each new film was built around . . . The funny thing is that Brando’s charismatic screen persona was vividly apparent despite the multiplicity of his guises . . . Brando always remains recognizable, a star-actor in spite of himself. ” Jerry Lewis to Bogdanovich on the first laugh Lewis ever got onstage: “I was five years old. My mom and dad had a tux made—I worked in the borscht circuit with them—and I came out and I sang, ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ the big hit at the time . . . It was 1931, and I stopped the show—naturally—a five-year-old in a tuxedo is not going to stop the show? And I took a bow and my foot slipped and hit one of the floodlights and it exploded and the smoke and the sound scared me so I started to cry. The audience laughed—they were hysterical . . . So I knew I had to get the rest of my laughs the rest of my life, breaking, sitting, falling, spinning.” John Wayne to Bogdanovich, on the early years of Wayne’s career when he was working as a prop man: “Well, I’ve naturally studied John Ford professionally as well as loving the man. Ever since the first time I walked down his set as a goose-herder in 1927. They needed somebody from the prop department to keep the geese from getting under a fake hill they had for Mother Machree at Fox. I’d been hired because Tom Mix wanted a box seat for the USC football games, and so they promised jobs to Don Williams and myself and a couple of the players. They buried us over in the properties department, and Mr. Ford’s need for a goose-herder just seemed to fit my pistol.” These twenty-six portraits and conversations are unsurpassed in their evocation of a certain kind of great movie star that has vanished. Bogdanovich’s book is a celebration and a farewell.

Book Cruising World

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  • Release : 2005-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2038 pages

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 2038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cruising World

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  • Release : 2005-01
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  • Pages : 2038 pages

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 2038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cruising World

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  • Release : 2005-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2038 pages

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 2038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Famous Doctors and Famous Patients

Download or read book Famous Doctors and Famous Patients written by Diane Cheney and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Doctors and Famous Patients: Lives in Jeopardy? examines well-known doctors who treated celebrities and describes the successes and failures of patients’ treatments. Featuring well-known public figures such as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote, Cecil B. DeMille, John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Johnny Depp, Cary Grant, and Susan Sarandon—descriptions of each patient show the impact of treatment on patients’ lives, for better or worse. Often the mind-altering chemicals that promised patients’ relief imposed problems instead. In documenting and consolidating prominent historical medical case studies, Famous Doctors and Famous Patients enables readers to make better choices for their own medical care.

Book Sullivan s Travels

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  • Author : d.p. murphy
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
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  • ISBN : 1411633334
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book Sullivan s Travels written by d.p. murphy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L A  Noir

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  • Author : William Hare
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2008-01-24
  • ISBN : 0786437405
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book L A Noir written by William Hare and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is an ideal city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest metropolitan area in the country, home to an ever-changing population of the disillusioned and in close proximity to city, mountains, ocean, and desert, the City of Angels became a center of American film noir. This detailed discussion of nine films explores such topics as why certain settings are appropriate for film noir, why L.A. has been a favorite of authors such as Raymond Chandler, and relevant political developments in the area. The films are also examined in terms of story content as well as how they developed in the project stage. Utilizing a number of quotes from interviews, the work examines actors, directors, and others involved with the films, touching on their careers and details of their time in L.A. The major films covered are The Big Sleep, Criss Cross, D.O.A., In A Lonely Place, The Blue Gardenia, Kiss Me Deadly, The Killing, Chinatown, and L.A. Confidential.