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Humphrey Bogart: Acting
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Although the characters he portrayed were unaffected by their smoking, Bogart wasn't so lucky. The chain smoking in which he partook both on and off the screen led to a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in 1955. In 1956, Bogart had surgery to remove a cancerous growth in his esophagus. After the surgery he seemed to do a little better, but he was soon back in the hospital with nerve complications from the scar tissue in his throat. He underwent another surgery to remove the scar tissue and was sent home. At home, Bogart endured a few very painful months before he passed away on January 14, 1957.
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Bogart was a founding member of the Rat Pack. During the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Mike and Gloria Romanoff, Angie Dickinson and others, "Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party" and declared, "You look like a god damn rat pack."
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Hepburn's proper spinster character scolded Bogart's Charlie Alnutt: "Nature, Mr. Allnutt, is what we are put in this world to rise above." Bogart had a famous put down too: "You crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
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Even so, the Rat Pack under Bogart's presidency was pretty civilized compared to what it became later. Bogart actually got away with telling Sinatra that he had an immature attitude towards women.
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One of the women sued Bogart for $25,000. He showed up in court and was asked: "Were you drunk?" "Isn't everybody at three in the morning?" he replied. The case was dropped. Later, he mused: "Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell-raising."
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The love of a good woman was usually enough to dispel Bogart's disillusion. Important note: it had to be a good woman. The love of a bad woman only made things worse.
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