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"Bogie and Bacall" may have been America's most popular movie star couple, with its own genesis in the 21940s--the era of film noir. Along which Peter Lorre and Joan Crawford, this specific quartet set the tenor for that genre of film. Though there were others who were since popular during that time--particularly David Cagney, Bette Davis, et al. It has been the aforementioned foursome who best personify that era. Bogart ended up being the tough-as-nails deective or every single man, torn between being a mobster along with a man abiding by a moral selection. Bacall was the rare combination of vamp and girl next front door. Her dimples, almond-shaped eyes and flowing locks made her when big a female actor as her contemporaries, of which Crawford were one. Between 1932-36 Crawford was 1 from the a number of largest box office draws in motion pictures and Lorre ended up being typecast like the consummate villain.
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart were born on Christmas Evening, 1899, in New York City. His parents were Belmont Maud Humphrey, a surgeon along with a renowned commercial designer.
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After a helpful uncredited bit portion in "Life" (1920), Bogart appeared in 21 Broadway productions between 1922 and 1935. Bogart won his first starring role five a long time later in, "Upward the River." Bogart'utes film resume is second to none, having starred in the classics, "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941, a portion changed down by George Raft), "Key Largo" (1948), "Casablanca (1942)," "Cherish from the Sierra Madre" (1948), "The Roaring Twenties" (1939, with Wayne Cagney), "The major Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), and "The Caine Mutiny(1954)." However, he won the Oscar for Best Actor just once, for his overall performance since a tough-talking, but soft-hearted boat captain in "The African Queen" (1951) opposite Katherine Hepburn.
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Bogart often played characters caught between the allure from the gangster life, but conflicted by moral concerns. This has been often a concern of his in real life. His Wikipedia biography states, "Bogart ended up being proud of his success just as one actor, but the actuality it came through playing a gangster weighed on him. He once said, 'I can'big t get in a mild debate without turning it into a very argument. There should be something in my tone of voice, or this arrogant face. Something that antagonizes everybody. Nobody likes me on sight. I suppose that's precisely why I'm solid like the heavy'."
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Bogart's tone of voice were often comic fodder for impressionists, Louise Brooks, writer of "Humphrey and Bogart "wrote, "His handsome face ended up being made extraordinary by a most beautiful mouth. It had been very full, rosy...he both loved and hated his beautiful mouth. America, in the Twenties, has been exclusively Western in their ideas of attractiveness and vulgar people made fun of Humphrey's 'nigger lips'." Nonetheless, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the first greatest movie story of most time. In 1997 he has been ranked 9th in the United kingdom magazine "Empire" one of the "Top 100 Movie Stars of Every single one Time."
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From the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest movie Rates", six are attributed to Bogart. That they include: "The following's looking at you, kid" (No. 5), "Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship" (No. 20), "We'll always have Paris" (43rd), "Of all the gin joints in every single one the towns in a lot of the world, she guides into mine" (67), "Round way up the usual suspects." (No. 32, every single one through "Casablanca"); and "The stuff that goals are made of" (No. 14, from "The Maltese Falcon")
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Bogart ended up being known because a heavy drinker and forced himself through the making of "We're No Angels." He had cancer in the esophagus, having it removed in 1956, but by then the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes and ribs. He died in 1957. In his eulogy of Bogie (a nickname bestowed upon your pet by ally Spencer Tracy), Steve Huston said succinctly, "He will be fairly irreplaceable. There will never become another like him or her."
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Peter Lorre was born Ladislav Lowenstein on June 26, 1904 and has been known while the consummate villain, over a career that spanned - many years. He had been a good onstage actor in many foreign productions before Fritz Lang solid your pet in the classic thriller, "M." (1931). The film will be best known for their own ending, where Lorre's character pleads for his life. Following "M" he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's, "The Man Who Realized As well Much." (1934). In 1940 Lorre found his niche, playing a killer in "Stranger On The Third Flooring," which many consider Hollywood's first film noir car.
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Lorre went onto star with Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942) and the anti-Communist drama, "Through The Night." (1942). But he ended up being perhaps best known for his portrayal of Japanese detective Mr. Moto, a series which ran from series (1937-1939).
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Later in the career Lorre suffered through ill health and made more television appearances than film. He died coming from a heart stroke on March 23, 1964, just months after his final film, "The Patsy". The film starred Jerry Lewis and were a movie Lorre ended up being reluctant to perform.
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Lauren Bacall were born Betty Joan Perske in Brand new York City on September 16, 1924. She may be the daughter of William and Natalie Perske and will be in addition the cousin of former Israeli Leading Minister Shimon Peres.
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In 1942 she adapted the stage name Betty Bacall (the surname a reworking of her mother's maiden name, 'Bacal'). She has been a model who had been discovered by director Howard Hawkes, who later cast her in "To Have and Have Not." He ideal she change her name from Betty to Lauren.
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During the 1940s Bacall became one in the leading and arguably sexiest stars from the gold screen, but may become best known for being Bogart'utes wife. She and Bogie worked together on 1944'ersus "To Have and Have Not," where she seductively cooed 1 with the greatest lines in movie history: "You learn how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just set your lips together and blow" (No. 34 on AFI's "100 Greatest Film Estimates").
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While Betty Davis' eyes" might have inspired a song, Bacall'utes almond-shaped orbs enchanted many a moviegoer, and even Bogart who met her on the set of "To have and Have Not." He divorced his wife Mayo Methot, and despite being 25 years Bacall'utes senior, wed her a year later. It has been her first marriage but his fourth.
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They will in addition worked together in the classics, "Key Largo (1948), "The major Sleep" (1946), and "Dark Passage" (1947). The 2 were married for 12 decades, right up until Bogart'utes death in 1957. It has been written that his last phrases to her, "Goodbye, kid." He has been a famous boozer and once said, "The difficulties with the world will be that it'ersus always one particular drink linked to." It is actually rumored that his last phrases were, "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis."
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Bacall has been briefly engaged to Frank Sinatra, then married actor Jason Robards for 8 a long time, until that they divorced due to his alcoholism.
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She has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in
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"The Mirror Provides Two Faces," losing to Barbara Hershey ("Portrait of a Lady"). Even so, she did win a Golden for her performance.
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Joan Crawford was once to have said, "I have always known what I wanted, as had been absolute wonder, in every single form." A post-mortem bestseller by her stepdaughter Christina which had been later turned into a major motion picture, painted a portrait of Ms. Crawford that has been fairly the opposite. Unfortunately, no a single could argue with her talent, splendor and screen presence.
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She has been born Lucille Fay Leseur, in San Antonio, Texas, on March 23, 1906. Crawford grew upwards an unhealthy girl, her father having deserted the family shortly before her birth. But like her character Ethel Whitehead in the movie "The Damned Don'big t Cry", she ended up being ambitious almost to the stage of obsession. The family moved to KC when Joan were but 10, and upon her graduation she went to Chicago.
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She began her career as a registrant of your Chicago dance troupe and ended up being discovered by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout. She was actually invited to Hollywood for a screen test and afterward has been signed to a six-month deal. She became so popular with the studio's head, Louis B. Mayer, who believed her last name sounded as well much like "sewer." Being that he had grown fond of his brand-new use, Mayer launched a national contest to find her a fresh name. After becoming Joan Crawford she soon after became a single from the movie industry'utes most significant stars. She has been teamed with Clark Gable in ten films including their only musical, "Walking normally Lady" (1933), a film noted for being Fred Astaire's film debut and often featured these Stooges. Despite the success produced by film, Crawford worried that "talkies" would ruin her career.
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Feeling underappreciated, and believing that she ended up being being passed over for better roles in favour of Bette Davis and also other actresses in the MGM stable, Crawford left MGM in 1942. MGM believed her popularity had been faltering and let her go without acrimony.
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Her heyday ended up being during the 40'ersus when she produced some of her best work, "A Woman'utes Face" (1941), "Mildred Pierce" (1945, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress), and "Possessed" (1947). Quite a few years later, when she had been considered "washed way up" she stunned audiences with her turn in "Whatever Transpired to Baby Jane" (1962), where she discussed screen time with her arch-competitor Davis.
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She landed at that will make Warner Close friend Studios where she nabbed the title role in "Mildred Pierce", a movie about a working woman who rises to the top of her field, but whose spoiled daughter steals her husband and eventually will be pinned for his murder. A year later she made "Humoresque," where she was actually nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, but misplaced it to Loretta Young for "The Farmer's Daughter." The same result would befall her in 1952, when she dropped to Shirley Booth for her overall performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba".
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She died in Manhattan in 1977, of a heart attack. Sadly, she may end up being forever remembered since a sadistic stepmother with an extreme disdain for wire hangers.
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Humphrey Bogart introduction, Wikipedia
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Lauren Bacall profile, Wikipedia
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Joan Crawford link, Wikipedia
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Peter Lorre user profile, Wikipedia
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Louise Brooks, "Humphrey and Bogey," Sight and Sound, Winter 1966-67, Vol. 36, No. 1
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Timothy N. Stelly, Sr. may be the blogger of two novels" "The malice of Cain" and "Tempest In The Natural stone." He is a contributor to several e-zines and will be a fan of the film noir genre.
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http://www.sigmicron.com/groups/profile/79390/lotosictlica
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