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Humphrey Bogart
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I'm about as much in favor of communism as J. Edgar Hoover. I despise communism and I believe in our own American brand of democracy.
— "I'm No Communist", Photoplay (March 1948), p. 53
Humphrey Bogart
American actor (1899–1957)
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He made cynicism look like integrity. The man who gave noir its face — fedora, trench coat, that voice like gravel and smoke — turned the morally ambiguous loner into the American ideal. Rick Blaine, Sam Spade, the river rat who won an Oscar opposite Hepburn: every hard-bitten detective since is his echo.
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Bogart spent more than a decade in supporting roles, mostly playing gangsters, before his breakthrough as an escaped killer in High Sierra (1941). The Maltese Falcon the same year made him a star and set the template for noir: his Sam Spade and later Philip Marlowe became the models every detective would follow. Then came Casablanca (1942), where his Rick Blaine — ranked the fourth greatest hero in American cinema — gave him his first romantic lead opposite Ingrid Bergman in what the AFI later called the greatest love story in American film. On the set of To Have and Have Not (1944), the 44-ye…
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Humphrey Bogart
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I've seen Humphrey Bogart with one often enough ...
— A man's reply when asked if he knows how to operate an automatic weapon, in Nevil Shute's What Happened to the Corbetts (1939).
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It was practically a masterpiece. I don't have many things I'm proud of but that's one.
— On The Maltese Falcon, as cited in "The Maltese Falcon", TCM
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All you owe the public is a good performance.
— To Frank Sinatra, as quoted in The New York Times (May 17, 1994)
Humphrey Bogart
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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
— Attributed without citation in Vivian Cook, ""Can they spell your name in Karachi? British and American style spelling"
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- Academy Award for Best Actor
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- World War I Victory Medal (United States)
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