LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Humphrey Bogart: John Huston
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Synopsis: In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, en route to Washington by train. Drake hops off and disappears, leading Murdock on a hectic manhunt.Read More
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Unlike most technical actors, Humphrey was extremely sensitive to his director. But like most actors from the theatre, he was slow in building a mood and grimly serious about maintaining it. James Cagney, in The Roaring Twenties, split him in a confusion between Bogey and Humphrey. Cagney's swift dialogue and his swift movements, which had the glitter and precision of a meat slicer, were impossible to anticipate or counter-attack. Humphrey was at his best working with less inspired and more technical actors such as Walter Huston. He was ... at his best playing an inarticulate, uncomplicated character like the punk in San Quentin. His senseless pursuit of death became pathetic, even noble, because it came out of his own unconquerable perseverance in pursuing stardom.
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John Albert Bogart, in his 1959 Bogart genealogy, shows Dr. Jacob Bogart (1723-1777) as a son of Gysbert Bogaert (ca. 1695/97-1768), and would accord with Jacob’s naming of his eldest son Gilbert (the English version of the name). However the evidence is perhaps less than definitive, and the very learned Van Doren Honeyman, in his Joannes Nevius … and his descendants (Plainfield, N.J., 1900), pp. 627, 593, stated that Dr. Jacob was a son of another Jacob, while in a reply to a Bogart query in Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 4 (1915): 73-4, of which he was editor, he stated that Jacob’s ancestry was “not traced.”;
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Bogart's last film, "The Harder They Fall", was made in 1956. Bogart died on January 14, 1957 from esopheagal cancer in the bedroom of his home in Hollywood's Holmby Hills. At his funeral, his best friend John Huston described Bogart best with his statement, "He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be anybody like him". It is a statement that reflects the thought of all those who have seen and enjoyed his many unforgettable performances.
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Bogart admired and somewhat envied Huston because Huston got to write scripts, to shape a story and make sure it had heft. Though a poor student, Bogart was a lifelong reader. He could quote Plato, Pope, Ralph Waldo Emerson and over a thousand lines of Shakespeare. He admired writers, and some of his best friends were screenwriters, including Louis Bromfield, Nathaniel Benchley and Nunnally Johnson.
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Bogart was not only admired for his great talent, but ... for his professionalism. He always arrived on the set knowing his lines and knowing exactly what he was supposed to do. He always cooperated willingly with the directors of his films. At his funeral, director John Huston, Bogart's longtime friend, paid him tribute: "He is quite unreplaceable. There will never be anybody like him."
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