Humphrey Bogart Looks Back on Movie Career Of Crime Acting

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 June 1948, Page 8

Humphrey Bogart Looks Back on Movie Career Of Crime Acting

Humprey Bogart, innocent and unlucky in “Dark Passage” and tough and trouble-making in “Treasure of Sierra Madre," can now look back complacently on a career of crime on the screen that is probably unequalled in Hollywood’s history. After working for a while on Wall Street. Bogart decided to become an actor because he wanted a more exciting life. He appeared in a number of Broadway shows and also did several pictures in New York- But he really dates his screen career from the release of “The Petrified Forest which he played in the original stage production. Leslie Howard starred in the play and when Warner Bros brought him to Hollywood to do the film version, he insisted that Bogart be included in the deal, to play his original role. Humprey Bogart now feels he has every reason to be contented. He has the three things he wanted most out of life: a happy marriage, a steady job, and a good boat. He and Mrs. Bogart (Lauren Bacall) keep their 55ft. yawl "Santana” at Newport Beach where they spend almost as much time as they do in their Beverly Hills home. Bogart likes rough clothes, preferably sailor's dungarees, hates dressing up, and wears a dinnei jacket only when he has to. Bogart and his wife have been teamed in several films, and their latest together is “Key Largo."