Bogart The Legend Continues

Current info about classic movie actors is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the latest Classic Movies actors info available. Think about what you've read so far. Does it reinforce what you already know about movies or actors, or was there something completely new? What about the remaining paragraphs? Humphrey [here looking at you kid] Bogart was born in New York in 1899. Was nicknamed "The Last Century Man" because he was born on Christmas Day 1899 (based on the popular belief that the 19th Century ended in 1899} Ranked #1 on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest screen actors. The son of a moderately wealthy Manhattan surgeon and a famed magazine illustrator, Humphrey Bogart was educated at Trinity School, New York City, sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. From 1920 to 1922, he managed a stage company owned by family friend William A. Brady , performing a variety of tasks at Brady's film studio in New York. He started performing on stage in 1922 and in 1930 he gained a contract with fox and made his debut in a 10 minute short film called "Broadways Like That" He worked at fox for two years and then went back to stage work with a few minor movie roles. He first major breakthrough came in 1936 when he landed a role in "The Petrified Forest". That landed him a long term contract with Warner Brothers. In the following four years he would appear in 28 films. But his major success started in 1941 with some of his best films yet. High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casa- blanca in 1942.The Big Sleep which was made in 1946 and Key Largo which was released in 1948. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which was also done in 1948 after he formed his own production company. He won the best actor Academy award for the classic film "The AfricanQueen" He was also nominated for Casablanca and as Captain Queeg in