Kathryn Ferguson uses clips, voiceovers and interview archives to offer a candid and entertaining account of the actor who was at the pinnacle of Hollywood’s golden age
takes us through his extraordinary, almost mythic life story; it uses clips, voiceovers and existing interview archives but no new on-camera material.
Bogart was the son of a distinguished New York surgeon and a refined artist, illustrator and suffragette and might easily have become a bland east coast bourgeois professional, were it not for his academic underperformance and love of acting which took him from Broadway to Hollywood.
Bogart also had an incredible, almost tragicomic marital history; Ferguson gives us a very persuasive, almost Tudor legend of the four wives of Humphrey the First, showing us how each woman gave Bogart what he needed and wanted.
This is a candid look at Bogart, whose heavy smoking and drinking caused him to die at 57, looking a fair bit older than that – although the film is reticent on the subject of his hairpiece. Perhaps more could have been said about his spirited postwar anti-McCarthyite stand from which he, mortifyingly, was forced to make a partial climbdown. But this is a very entertaining account of an actor who appeared to ascend, singly, to a higher plane than all others of the Hollywood golden age.
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