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The Influential Women of Humphrey Bogart’s Life: From His Suffragette Mother to Wife Lauren Bacall
'Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes': Women who shaped Humphrey Bogart from a mother who called him a failure to Lauren Bacall who put marriage over career
Academy Award-winning actor Humphrey Bogart ’s life might have turned out a whole lot different had he taken to heart criticism his parents showered on him through his entire early life, calling him an “inadequate” actor and scholar, and an outright “failure.” But a distinctive, raspy voice, the character in his face that he once said had “taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there,” and that unparalleled talent for playing an emotionally complex tough guy — all fueled by an incredible drive — made him a Hollywood legend. Bogie’s mother, Maud Humphrey, was a suffragette and quite a famous — and well paid — illustrator from the turn of the 20th century into the 1920s, earning upwards of $50,000 a year during the Great Depression. Stephen adds, “Whether you are a big Bogart fan or whether you are only vaguely aware of the guy in the trench coat and the fedora, this film will educate you, entertain you, and change your perspective.
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