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In addition, the 1900 census for the household of Belmont Bogart lists his son Humphrey as having a birth date in December of 1899. There are ... three different censuses attesting to his birth date in December, 1899. In addition, his last wife, actress Lauren Bacall, always maintained that December 25 was his true birth date.[5]
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In 1945 Bogart, whose previous wives had been actresses, Helen Menken, Mary Philips and Mayo Methot, married Lauren Bacall, who was then 21 and would be his greatest partner. Since 1943 and the box-office triumph of Casablanca, Bogart had becoe one of the top ten Hollywood stars. The end of the war saw him return to Film Noir. In 1945 he twice played the role of a murderer: opposite Alexis Smith in Conflict and Barbara Stanwyck in The Two Mrs Carrolls. These off-beat performances had only a limited impact in comparison with The Big Sleep (1946), in which Bogart, once more working with Hawks and Bacall, played another mythical detective: Philip Marlowe.
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Bogart owes his stardom to George Raft, who turned down the two 1941 roles that boosted him to the top: "Mad Dog" Earle inHigh Sierra and Sam Spade inThe Maltese Falcon. As his box-office standing improved, Warners designed vehicles that would enable him to retain his toughguy persona while playing sympathetic characters. Beginning with his "Rick" inCasablanca (1942), the single role for which he is best remembered (and which earned him his first Oscar nomination), Bogart etched memorable portraits as another Rick-type inTo Have and Have Not (1944, during the production of which he met and married Lauren Bacall, his fourth and final wife), private eye Philip Marlowe inThe Big Sleep (1946), a reformed crook inKey Largo (1948), the greed-crazed Fred C. Dobbs inThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (... 1948), a Hollywood burnout inIn a Lonely Place (1950), the unstable Captain Queeg inThe Caine Mutiny (1954, Oscar-nominated), an escaped killer inThe Desperate Hours (1955), and a weary sportswriter inThe Harder They Fall (1956, his last film).
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Bogart and Bacall moved into a $160,000 white brick mansion in Holmby Hills, an exclusive neighborhood between Beverly Hills and Bel-Air. Bogart and Bacall had two Jaguar cars, and three blooded Boxer dogs. Bogart said "We moved where all the creeps live." But he liked some of his neighbors, especially Judy Garland.
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From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, a fondness for fishing and a life-long love of sailing. Humphrey was the oldest of three children. When Lauren Bacall introduced him to her large family, he said, "Christ, you've got more goddamn relatives than I've ever seen."
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"The Big Sleep" reprised Bogart's noir gumshoe role, this time based on Raymond Chandler's first (1939) Philip Marlowe novel. Despite the stellar caliber of its screen writers, the movie is as infamous as Chandler's book for its labyrinthine plot, which reportedly even Chandler himself couldn't completely untangle (nor did he care to). Both on and off screen it solidified the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, who married before its 1946 release, and firmly established then-22-year-old Lauren Bacall as one of Hollywood's new leading ladies.
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