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Early Days Productions: Films of Humphrey Bogart Last updated 08/23/2010
"The African Queen" (1951) is a American drama film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel[1] and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and had a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel. Edited from Wikipedia.
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) is John Huston's American feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, in which two impecunious Americans (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) during 1920s in Mexico join with an old-timer (Walter Huston, the director's father) to prospect for gold. The old-timer accurately predicts trouble, but is willing to go anyway. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed almost entirely on location outside the United States (in the state of Durango and street scenes in Tampico, Mexico), although the night scenes were filmed back in the studio. The film is quite faithful to the novel. Edited from Wikipedia.
"Casablanca" (1942) is a American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. Despite a changing assortment of screenwriters frantically adapting an unstaged play and barely keeping ahead of production, and Bogart attempting his first romantic lead role, Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edited from Wikipedia.
Dead End (1937) is a crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney. It is notable as being the first film appearance of the Dead End Kids. Leo Gorcey wasn't one of the original Dead End Kids. He started out on Broadway playing a member of another gang in the play The Second Avenue Gang, along with his brother, David. Charles Duncan, who originally played Spit, left the production and was replaced by Gorcey, his understudy. Gorcey went on to become the prototypical "Dead End" Kid, East Side Kid and Bowery Boy.Edited from Wikipedia.
The Petrified Forest (1936) is a American film. A precursor to film noir, it is adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 play of the same name. The film stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart in his career breakthrough role as Duke Mantee. Though Bogart was successful in the Broadway role of Mantee, he was not originally cast in the film version. Warner Brothers planned to use Edward G. Robinson. Legend has it that Leslie Howard lobbied Jack Warner to hire Bogart.. According to Robert Sklar, studio politics and Robinson's reluctance to take another gangster role resulted in Bogart being cast. The film brought Bogart much recognition for which he remained grateful to Howard throughout his life — eventually naming his daughter after Howard. Edited from Wikipedia.
