Ann Sperber and Eric Lax offer therevealing, intimate, definitive biography of the legendary Humphrey Bogart, detailing the arc and span of his personal and professional life--a story oftoil, tragedy, and triumph. Sperber and Lax exploreBogie's abusive childhood and the three unsuccessful marriages that precededthe lasting love he found with Lauren Bacall, and plumb the depths of hisarduous career working as Warner Brothers' go-to drudge actor for thirteenyears of B-list films before rising to stardom and ultimately achieving hisplace amongst Hollywood royalty. The Los Angeles Times calls Bogart "animmediate triumph . . . so rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, itis an absorbing human story of the motion picture business in the age ofHumphrey Bogart."
| ISBN: | 9780062107367 |
| Publication date: | 29th November 2011 |
| Author: | Amy Tan |
| Publisher: | It Books an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 704 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: arts and entertainment Theatre studies Film history, theory or criticism Composers and songwriters Musicians, singers, bands and groups Memoirs Gender studies: women and girls Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Social and cultural history |