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Bogey and Betty in “Key Largo.” He denies calling her “Baby” — a name, it is said, they’ll both be using for someone else soon
BY RUTH WATERBURY
Humphrey bogart has three
pleasures. His first is Lauren Bacall. His second is working in any picture directed by John Huston. And his third pleasure he started upon very innocently — when he was a dizzy eight.
At this time he told his father that he was very interested in girls. His father gave him a shocked look and declared Humphrey didn’t know what he was talking about. That did it! He did know what he was talking about. He thought very highly of the feminine sex even then. But what shaped his character at that particular moment was the way his fond parent was thrown by such an honest expression.
So we have Bogey’s third pleasure — tossing verbal bombshells, then sitting back to see what will happen.
“I have pulled some bonehead plays and given out some bonehead statements in my life,” he says. “But I have never lied. That I guarantee. I have always expressed my opinion on any subject at any time. If later. I’ve foimd I was wrong, in conviction or deed, I’ve confessed it. But when I think an attitude or an idea is right I say so.”
There is, for example, the little episode of San Francisco’s civic pride vs. Bogey. Warners had sent their star up to the City of the Golden Gate for a movie opening. The San Francisco papers sent their reporters around to glean the Bogart opinion on three San Francisco ffeatures — its food, its (Continued on page 115)
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