How to Bogart: Surprising Life Lessons from Humphrey Bogart's Witty Remarks
Book Details
Author(s)Karina Hughes-Eperson
ISBN / ASINB008G5KTUC
ISBN-13978B008G5KTU9
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
It has often been said that Humphrey Bogart - who was famously married to the super beautiful Lauren Bacall - was the first male Hollywood superstar who was not “handsome.” I actually disagree with the assertion that Bogey wasn’t handsome. I am, however, aware that the comparison was in relation to Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Rudolph Valentino, and others.
What really made Humphrey Bogart the “Greatest Hollywood Personality of the 10th Century” was his charm, charisma, and what many call the “it factor.” Somehow men and women were just drawn towards him in a way that the Valentino’s and Gable’s could not do.
Bogart couldn’t have started his career at a worse time. Yes, he was a stage actor right around the time the stock market crashed and America went into the Great Depression. He did make a living at first but soon Bogey was just one of the many actors who found himself scraping for food in the soup kitchens. But with his built in optimism and resourcefulness he somehow found his way into Hollywood, playing a small role in a movie called “the Dancing Town.”
His breakout movie was called “the Petrified Forest.” It was a movie based on a play that Bogey got to play on stage a total of 197 times. He got rave reviews and never looked back.
Humphrey Bogart when on to star in such legendary movies like “the Treasure of Sierra Madre”, “the African Queen” with Kathryn Hepburn, and of, course, “Casablanca”, a movie always gets ranked one of the three greatest movies ever filmed along with such greats as Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane.
In this e-book (which should take you less than 15 minutes to finish reading) you will experience the philosophical aspects of Humphrey Bogart. True, he was a great entertainer and celebrity. But what many people fail to appreciate was that Bogey was some kind of philosopher too. Not some “deep” philosopher like Nietsche or Socrates but more like a “street smart and smart ass” philosopher who has the kind of practical wisdom that many of us can see eye to eye with, and apply to our own lives.
What really made Humphrey Bogart the “Greatest Hollywood Personality of the 10th Century” was his charm, charisma, and what many call the “it factor.” Somehow men and women were just drawn towards him in a way that the Valentino’s and Gable’s could not do.
Bogart couldn’t have started his career at a worse time. Yes, he was a stage actor right around the time the stock market crashed and America went into the Great Depression. He did make a living at first but soon Bogey was just one of the many actors who found himself scraping for food in the soup kitchens. But with his built in optimism and resourcefulness he somehow found his way into Hollywood, playing a small role in a movie called “the Dancing Town.”
His breakout movie was called “the Petrified Forest.” It was a movie based on a play that Bogey got to play on stage a total of 197 times. He got rave reviews and never looked back.
Humphrey Bogart when on to star in such legendary movies like “the Treasure of Sierra Madre”, “the African Queen” with Kathryn Hepburn, and of, course, “Casablanca”, a movie always gets ranked one of the three greatest movies ever filmed along with such greats as Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane.
In this e-book (which should take you less than 15 minutes to finish reading) you will experience the philosophical aspects of Humphrey Bogart. True, he was a great entertainer and celebrity. But what many people fail to appreciate was that Bogey was some kind of philosopher too. Not some “deep” philosopher like Nietsche or Socrates but more like a “street smart and smart ass” philosopher who has the kind of practical wisdom that many of us can see eye to eye with, and apply to our own lives.
