The Real Bogie and Bacall  
Author(s): Catherine Curzon
Published by Pen and Sword
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ISBN: 9781399074032
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Chronicles the turbulent Hollywood love story of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, navigating fame, adversity, and enduring passion against all odds.

It was the Hollywood romance that warmed hearts and thrilled audiences, but the path to true love was littered with alcoholism, abandonment and bitter disappointments.

Humphrey Bogart had crawled up the hard way, leaving behind a childhood without affection for a life as the idol of millions. Bogie’s road to stardom had been long and tough, forging a superstar who hated being in the spotlight as much as he loved being in the bar. With three marriages to his name and a reputation as one of the hardest drinkers in Hollywood, happiness was always fleeting.

Lauren Bacall grew up in New York as the apple of her hard-working mother’s eye, dreaming of a life in the limelight. Modelling by day and tearing tickets at night, when she was summoned to Hollywood to make a screentest, young Betty Bacall grabbed it with both hands. There she was reborn as the vampish Lauren Bacall, a teenage nobody who would make her debut in To Have and Have Not opposite the quintessential Hollywood tough guy, Humphrey Bogart.

Nobody expected what came next, but the love affair between Bogie and Bacall took the world by storm. The Real Bogie & Bacall tells the story of two people whose romance shouldn’t have worked… but did.
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Chronicles the turbulent Hollywood love story of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, navigating fame, adversity, and enduring passion against all odds.

It was the Hollywood romance that warmed hearts and thrilled audiences, but the path to true love was littered with alcoholism, abandonment and bitter disappointments.

Humphrey Bogart had crawled up the hard way, leaving behind a childhood without affection for a life as the idol of millions. Bogie’s road to stardom had been long and tough, forging a superstar who hated being in the spotlight as much as he loved being in the bar. With three marriages to his name and a reputation as one of the hardest drinkers in Hollywood, happiness was always fleeting.

Lauren Bacall grew up in New York as the apple of her hard-working mother’s eye, dreaming of a life in the limelight. Modelling by day and tearing tickets at night, when she was summoned to Hollywood to make a screentest, young Betty Bacall grabbed it with both hands. There she was reborn as the vampish Lauren Bacall, a teenage nobody who would make her debut in To Have and Have Not opposite the quintessential Hollywood tough guy, Humphrey Bogart.

Nobody expected what came next, but the love affair between Bogie and Bacall took the world by storm. The Real Bogie & Bacall tells the story of two people whose romance shouldn’t have worked… but did.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Act One: Bogart
    • Belmont and Maud
    • The Humphrey Baby
    • The Seneca Point Gang
    • The Story of a Scar
    • Footlights
    • Wet Pants Willies
    • Helen
    • Mary
    • Depression
    • Duke Mantee
    • Hollywood
    • Mayo
    • High Sierra
    • The Studios
    • The Maltese Falcon
    • Casablanca
    • On Tour
  • Act Two: Bacall
    • Betty Joan
    • Betty and Bette
    • The Garment Center
    • Broadway
    • Franklin Street
    • Harper’s Bazaar
    • Steve and Slim
    • The Code
    • Cover Girl
    • The City of Angels
    • Beginnings
    • To Have and Have Not
    • The Look
  • Act Three: Bogie and Baby
    • Hump and Betty
    • The Kiss
    • Secrets
    • Svengali
    • Suspicion
    • The Battling Bogarts
    • The Big Sleep
    • Separation
    • Divorce
    • Reunited
    • Malabar
    • A Wedding
    • Confidential Agent
    • Benedict Canyon
    • Mr and Mrs Bogart
    • Dark Passage
    • Key Largo
    • Stephen
    • A Panda Party
    • The Comeback
    • Santana
    • The African Queen
    • Holmby Hills
    • How to Marry a Millionaire
    • From Caine to Contessa
    • We’re No Angels
    • Domestic Bliss
    • The Cough
    • A Slight Malignancy
    • Me and Mrs Me
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Plates
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