Humphrey DeForest Bogart, colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Bogart in 1940
Plaque commemorating Bogart's birthplace, 245 W. 103rd St., New York City
Maud Humphrey in the 1897 book American Women
Enlisting at 18 in the U.S. Navy in 1918, Bogart was recorded as a model sailor.
Classical Hollywood cinema
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. It then became characteristic of American cinema during the Golden Age of Hollywood, between roughly 1927 and 1960. It eventually became the most powerful and pervasive style of filmmaking worldwide.
Film classic Gone with the Wind (1939) starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh
Still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915), starring Lillian Gish (second from right)
Theatrical release poster for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)