# Humphrey Bogart (Great Stars)

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- Authors: [David Thomson](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-thomson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-147-0
- Published: 2009-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.' He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the rat pack and met four wives on set - including his great love, Lauren Bacall - yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of film's most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinema's greatest icon.