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Humphrey Bogart: John Huston
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Bogart began his film career in 1920 with an unaccredited bit part in a film called Life. After several unremarkable years working in theater, Bogart was finally seen again on screen in 1930, appearing in John Ford's Up the River.
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Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends. It was Tracy, in 1930, who first called him "Bogie". (Spelled variously in many sources, Bogart himself spelled his nickname "Bogie.") Tracy and Bogart appeared together in John Ford's early sound film
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High Sierra, a 1941 Raoul Walsh film, was written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston. The film was a step forward for Bogart. He still played the villain, "Mad Dog" Roy Earle. He still died at the end; but at least he got to kiss Ida Lupino, and to play a character with some depth. In a climactic scene, Bogart's character slid 90 feet down a mountainside to his punishment. His stunt double, Buster Wiles, bounced a few times going down the mountain and wanted another take to do better.
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That following Friday, Bogart went to court to face the charges. After the woman admitted to touching the panda, "Magistrate John R. Starkey ruled that Bogart had been defending his property, said he suspected the actor had been mousetrapped in the cause of club publicity, and dismissed the case."
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Huston ... noted of Bogart: "Himself, he never took too seriously -- his work most seriously. In each of the fountains at Versailles there is a pike which keeps all the carp active; otherwise they would grow overfat and die. Bogie took rare delight in performing a similar duty in the fountains of Hollywood. Yet his victims seldom bore him any malice, and when they did, not for long. His shafts were fashioned only to stick into the outer layer of complacency, and not to penetrate through to the regions of the spirit where real injuries are done."
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