A Brief History
On November 26, 1942, the classic movie, Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in New York City. The film is rated as one of the greatest movies ever made. Casablanca won the Best Picture Oscar and cemented Humphrey Bogart as one of the greatest actors.
Digging Deeper
Bogie’s real name is, indeed, Humphrey Bogart, and the American Film Institute calls him “the greatest male star of classic American cinema.” Some of his great movies include The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, The Caine Mutiny, and he won the Best Actor Oscar for The African Queen (1951).
Bogart’s influence on American culture includes the term, “bogart,” as in, “Hey man, don’t bogart that bag of chips.” Not a selfish guy, why this term came about is hard to say. Bogie married Lauren Bacall at Malabar Farm in Ohio in 1945, and their love story is memorialized in the 1981 hit song, “Key Largo.”
Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: What is your favorite Bogart movie?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Sperber, Ann. Bogart. It Books, 2011.
Willian, Michael. The Scene-by-Scene Casablanca Film Guidebook: A Detailed Look at the Hollywood Film Classic. Kerpluggo Books, 2020.
The featured image in this article, a Colonial Theater advertisement for the American drama film Casablanca (1942), is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of “publication” for public art.
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