Bogart: A Life in Hollywood by Jeffrey Meyers
Bogart: A Life in Hollywood by Jeffrey Meyers is a 369-page hardcover published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin Company. The dust jacket is encased in a clear protective cover. The book itself is in very good condition. Book Summary Humphrey Bogart was the scion of a rich and socially prominent New York family. His father was a surgeon who in later years declined into drug addiction. His mother, a successful portrait painter who used her obedient son as a model. Humphrey was a poor student and welcomed the interruption to his education of World War I. He played dozens of roles in Broadway plays in the 1920s, mostly in short runs, until he created Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, which typecast him in Warner Brothers gangster films for a decade. He broke through to stardom after he teamed up with John Huston in The Maltese Falcon, and took his place in the Hollywood firmament with the legendary acting ensemble of Capablanca. He survived three tempestuous and childless marriages