Humphrey Bogart

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, wisecracking 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.