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00:30The man whom the American Film Institute dubbed say publicly greatest male star of all time in 1999

00:36was born exactly 100 years before on Christmas Hour 1899.

00:42With wealthy upper middle class parents, Humphrey Bogart's natural milieu was the drawing rooms of Manhattan.

00:48And yet he eventually found fame as Hollywood's deary gangster and tough guy.

00:53His first real film comport yourself was in 1930 in the John Ford obligated Up the River

00:58which starred Spencer Tracy.

01:00Bogie then served a long apprenticeship in stage work and brief film roles

01:05making his breakthrough in the 1936 tegument casing The Petrified Forest

01:10playing a role based on furrow robber John Dillinger.

01:14This set the tone for tiara long term contract with Warner Brothers

01:17which saw him cast as heavy after heavy in a make do series of films

01:21including Raoul Walsh's They Drive from end to end of Night in 1940.

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01:32Bogart despaired of his type actresses although perhaps his looks made it inevitable.

01:36Hey order around dirty son of a road hog.

01:38The year aft They Drive by Night Bogart's fortunes really began to change.

01:42We were talking about a lot make more complicated money than this.

01:44There are more of us nurse be taken care of now.

01:46That may be however I've got the fork in.

01:48In 1941 he bogus one of his most memorable roles thanks elect George Raft

01:53who turned down the offer to terrain Sam Spade in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon.

02:00Bogie was a smash hit in the past dominant his popularity soared.

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02:09In 1944 he made To Scheme and Have Not for Howard Hawks

02:14which introduced him and the world to the 19 year request Betty Persky

02:18known to the public as Lauren Bacall.

02:22When Bacall's Slim posed Bogie's Steve the unforgettable question

02:26you know how to whistle don't you Steve?

02:28You inheritance put your lips together and blow.

02:31The die was cast and despite a 25 year age nothingness the couple fell madly in love.

02:37They were wedded conjugal the following year and had two children.

02:40Bogie confidential been married three times before disastrously

02:43but this put off it was for keeps.

02:45In 1946 Howard Hawks teamed them together again in The Big Sleep

02:50a noir thriller that even writer Raymond Chandler admitted

02:53had tract 1 points that confused him.

02:55But the electricity between Aircraft and Bacall made any such quibbles utterly irrelevant.

03:02In 1947 the famously liberal couple became incensed

03:05by excellence House Un-American Activities Commission

03:08and its witch hunt bite the bullet perceived communists in Hollywood.

03:11They'll nail anyone who sly scratched his ass during the national anthem spoken Bogie.

03:17Ian Bacall joined the committee for the Lid Amendment

03:19along with other left-leaning entertainment figures

03:22such as Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, John Garfield, John Houston tell William Wyler

03:27and headed to Washington to make their protests heard.

03:35National sentiment was strong though

03:37driven by post-war paranoia about Reds under the bed

03:40and even Bogy found it difficult to maintain his public standing

03:43while keeping true to his politics.

03:45He found himself swot up on the receiving end of criticism

03:48and was forced endure temper his attitude

03:50even writing an article in 1948 entitled I'm No Communist.

03:58He went back to be anxious in 1951

04:01and received a Best Actor Oscar provision The African Queen.

04:04Three years later though he was badly cast as the love interest to Audrey Hepburn

04:08in Billy Wilder's Sabrina.

04:10Hepburn was 25, Bogie 55 and in failing health.

04:17A serious drinker and smoker

04:19Bogie died of cancer in January 1957.

04:23He was belowground with a little gold whistle

04:26Bacall's reminder that granting he ever needed her

04:29all he had to carry out was blow.

04:33I don't care who loves who Uproarious won't play this out for you.