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Funny. I never considered
myself particularly well liked.

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I really never knew before

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just how many friends
I did have.

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Just as you can't cheat
your way through life,

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you have to be yourself,

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believe in yourself,
play your hunches.

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I really can't understand
why actors

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can't have human frailties
like other people,

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why they can't make
the same mistakes,

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guess wrong now and then.

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Bogie's theory always was
when you're dead, that's it.

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You've gotta press on,
because life is for the living.

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My name is Humphrey Bogart,
in case there are those of you
in the audience

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who are either too young
or too old to know who I am.

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Bogie had those rugged,
masculine looks

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that Americans
seem to identify with.

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He was
a rugged individual.

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He could trade ripostes
and dialogue.

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And the nastier the better.

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Bogie.

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Bogie,
I just think he's great.

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No matter what he does,
it comes out cool.

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When people think
of my father, you think
of the film noir detective,

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you think of "Casablanca,"
you think of Bogie and Bacall.

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But it took him over 40 years

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to find his feet
in his film career.

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He'd lived a full life
before that point

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with as many setbacks
as he had successes,

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and he'd been married
three times

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by the time he met my mother.

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In every man's life,
there are pinpoints of time

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that govern his destiny.

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I'm not at ease
with women, really.

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I must obviously like
certain women.

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I've certainly married
enough of them.

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If you're not married or
in love, you're on the loose,

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and that's not comfortable.

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Love is the one emotion
which can relieve,

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as much as is ever possible,

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the awful essential loneliness
of us all.

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I said to Bogie,

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"Bogie, I need some help
with this girl."

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She's brand-new. She's never
made a scene before.

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And I'm going to try and make
her more insolent than you are.

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And you have
the reputation of being

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the most insolent man
on the screen."

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He kind of laughed and he said,
"You've got a fat chance
of doing that."

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"Well," I said,
"Bogie, I'm the director,

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and every scene we play,
she's gonna leave you

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with egg on your face
and walk out on you."

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-Who was the girl, Steve?
-Who was what girl?

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The one who left you with
such a high opinion of women.

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She must have been quite a gal.

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May I?

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It seems so strange

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that after 44 years
I should fall in love

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when I thought
it could never happen again.

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Well, when I first met Bogie,

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he just said hello to me
and said,

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"I saw your test. We'll have
a lot of fun together."

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Ha! I don't think
he realized at the time

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quite how things would turn out.

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What'd you do that for?

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I've been wondering
whether I'd like it.

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-What's the decision?
-I don't know yet.

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I had seen him
in a couple of movies.

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I saw him in "Casablanca."
He didn't thrill me at all.

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Leslie Howard was the actor
that thrilled me.

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-She's wonderful.
-She has a point of view.

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Startles me sometimes.

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I blink and realize
she's looking at things

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with younger, clearer eyes.

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She's smarter than me,
that's all.

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The thing I was
most aware of growing up

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was my father's
and mother's fame.

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You can't get around it.

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Being movie stars,
the golden age of Hollywood,

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it couldn't get any better.

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-How are you today?
-Better than last night.

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I can agree on that.

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He said,
"If you want a real career,

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then I'll do everything
I can for you,
but I won't marry you."

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Because he'd been married
to three actresses

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and they had all
followed their careers,

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their careers came first.

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And I promised him

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that our marriage
would come first.

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What do you think's fair?

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I'll leave that to you.

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I remember both of you

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are natives of New York.

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Do you miss
this big town very much?

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-No.
-Yes.

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Wait a minute.

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Well, that's a nice, normal
family disagreement,

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but, tell me, have you
sort of lost your appetite

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for playing
before live audiences, Bogie?

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Well, I have, Ed,

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because I did an awful lot of it
when I was a kid.

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I started in '21, and I thought
the world was my oyster,

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and I came to Hollywood
and was a terrible flop here.

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And then I went back to New York
and was in four big flops there.

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And I swore if I ever got to
Hollywood again, I'd stay here.

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By 1921,
I was working in theater.

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I sold tickets,
ran backstage, ran out front,

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counted up the take,
and then ran back

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to bring down the curtain.

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I was stage managing
a pretty complicated show

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with a lot of scene changes.

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Helen Menken was the star.

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Instead of staying
in her dressing room

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while these things
were going on

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and keeping out of the way,

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she hung around,
slowing things up.

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I told her
to go back to her room.

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She pulled
the great star act on me.

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I lost my temper.
And I guess I shouldn't have
done it, but I booted her.

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She, in turn, belted me
and ran to her dressing room.

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That, as a matter of fact,

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was the first conversation
I had

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with the girl
who became my first wife.

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When Bogart met Helen Menken,

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he was a nobody on Broadway.

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She was one of the great stars.

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She was the equivalent
of the rock star.

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People would be waiting
at her hotel.

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There would be
standing ovations.

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You'd have to part the crowd
for her to go in.

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People would be
grasping for her.

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She would have been
every bit the diva today.

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Helen really wanted to help
Bogart with his career.

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I startled Broadway

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by appearing in a play
called "Swifty"

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as my first big acting job.

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When I awoke the next morning,

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Maud came in
with a couple of reviews,

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she was Maud, never Mother,

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including Alexander Woollcott's
estimate

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of her son's performance.

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"The young man who embodied

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the aforementioned sprig
is what is..."

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..."usually and mercifully
described as 'inadequate'."

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So, you want to be
an actor, eh?

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A lot of people
don't realize that you are
a native New Yorker.

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-That's right.
-And your dad was a doctor?

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My dad was a doctor, yes.
I was...

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I was born in New York City.

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-Bed number 21,
Sloane's Maternity Hospital.

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And I lived up on 103rd Street
in West End Avenue.

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I can't get over this,
a guy so tough,

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and he's got a name
like Humphrey DeForest Bogart.

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And with a name
like Humphrey DeForest Bogart,
you gotta be tough.

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When I was born,
the family was worth

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a tremendous amount of money.

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My father had
an excellent practice,

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and Maud could make $50,000
a year as an illustrator.

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She was essentially
a woman who loved work,

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loved her work to the exclusion
of everything else.

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She was totally incapable
of showing affection.

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For Bogart,
it was troublesome growing up

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because there was no hug,
there was no kiss,

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there was no "I love you."

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Maud Humphrey
was one of the most famous
illustrators in America,

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and she was also
one of the most highly paid.

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In the decades
around the turn of the century,

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"The Maud Humphrey Baby"

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was perhaps the most celebrated
child in the world.

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I understand there was a period
in American history

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when you couldn't pick up
a goddamn magazine

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without seeing my kisser in it.

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When I was a kid,
it gave me kind of a complex.

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I was always getting the razz
from friends.

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Maud was well bred
and extremely proud of it.

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She was known far and wide
as Lady Maud.

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Beautiful, stately, fastidious.

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She looked and acted the part.

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Even in the country in summer,

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Mother's tall, stiff-backed
hourglass figure

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was decked out in a white duck
skirt and crisp white blouse.

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If white startled people,
it was all right with her.

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She'd been startling people
all her life.

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Maud was a suffragist.

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She was very influenced
by her upbringing in Rochester,

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and would have been influenced

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by Susan B Anthony,
Frederick Douglass,

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and other luminaries
who lived and visited here.

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She was steeped in feminism
and civil rights.

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We had a house in New York

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and a country place
at Canandaigua Lake

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in Upper New York.

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I always lived near the water

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and understood and liked boats.

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My father gave me
a one-cylinder motorboat,

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and I used to putt-putt
around the lake all day long,

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exploring every watery inch
of it.

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In the main,
I had pretty good manners,

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but I hated the smugness
of people in authority.

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I can't show my reverence
when I don't feel it.

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Dad had a faint idea I'd become

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the second surgeon
in the family,

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but by the time
I'd left elementary school,

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I guess the hope had faded.

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"My dear Dr. Bogart,
count on me to do all I can

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to get the young man
started right

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when he reaches
Andover next week."

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"My dear Dr. Bogart,
when a boy is willing

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to shoulder the responsibility
for his shortcomings

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and manfully admit that he

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and not someone else
is to blame,

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the chances
of a successful outcome
are immensely increased."

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"My dear Dr. Bogart,
to my great regret,

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I am forced to advise you

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that Humphrey
has failed to meet

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the terms of his probation,

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and it has become necessary,
therefore,

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for us to require
his withdrawal

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from the school at this time."

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The bastards threw me out.

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You've had every chance
that could have been
given to you,

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and you have failed.

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Not only yourself,
but your parents.

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We don't intend to support you
for the rest of your life.

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You're on your own from now on.

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I didn't care
to face the old man,
so I joined the Navy.

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The United States had just
entered the First World War,

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and it seemed
a good opportunity for me

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to cash in
on my fondness for water.

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I was sorry that the war
didn't touch me mentally.

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I was still no nearer
to an understanding

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of what I wanted or what I was.

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Because of his mother
being the breadwinner
in the house growing up,

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he was very leery
about suddenly

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sort of finding himself
in debt to a woman

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for making his life better.

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And at one point he said,
somewhat jokingly, to a friend,

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he said,
"I can't marry that girl."

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And his friend said to him,
"Well, if you don't,

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you'll never get another part
on Broadway."

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I've been so frightfully
occupied, you know.

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I just hadn't found time
to marry.

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Mr. Bogart called on the phone.
"You're not so busy now.

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Do you think you might
find time to marry me
on Thursday afternoon?"

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We took the fatal leap.
We were married in New York.

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He was one of a vast crew
of juvenile actors.

245
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He was playing
in silly comedies,

246
00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:17,416
and we didn't think
very much of Bogie.

247
00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:20,711
He just wasn't
anything very much.

248
00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:26,216
And he was cursed with
a rather plain old shoe face.

249
00:15:26,258 --> 00:15:30,846
There was nothing attractive
or romantic about him.

250
00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:34,016
I played
lots of juveniles on the stage.

251
00:15:34,058 --> 00:15:37,728
I put jars full of pomade
in my hair, slicked it back,

252
00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:42,608
and tried to look like
a 42nd Street version
of Rudolph Valentino.

253
00:15:44,109 --> 00:15:46,278
I went to Chicago
in The Cradle Snatchers,

254
00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,406
and a critic named Amy Leslie,
a lady critic,

255
00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:52,952
wrote a review in which
she said that, as I remember it,

256
00:15:52,993 --> 00:15:55,788
"Mr. Bogart has the grace
of a Valentino,

257
00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:57,498
the charm of an E H Sothern,

258
00:15:57,539 --> 00:16:02,461
and the dramatic appeal and
strength of a John Barrymore."

259
00:16:05,005 --> 00:16:07,466
Hey, is this a good speakeasy?

260
00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:09,593
The best in town.

261
00:16:21,563 --> 00:16:24,858
New York in the 1920s
was an exciting place.

262
00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:29,571
It was prohibition, which
outlawed legal alcohol sales

263
00:16:29,613 --> 00:16:32,658
but then pushed people
to go into illegal speakeasies,

264
00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:34,618
where they also
came into contact

265
00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:40,082
with underground nightclub
scenes and also performers.

266
00:16:40,124 --> 00:16:41,667
One thing that was changing

267
00:16:41,709 --> 00:16:44,128
was the way gender
and sexuality would work,

268
00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:47,006
and what that meant was that
there were big fights over it,

269
00:16:47,047 --> 00:16:49,174
kind of like now.

270
00:16:56,473 --> 00:16:59,143
"The Captive,"
it's a play pretty explicitly

271
00:16:59,184 --> 00:17:02,604
about the love
between two women.

272
00:17:02,646 --> 00:17:05,816
"The Captive" first opened
in Paris in March 1926.

273
00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:09,987
It played all over Europe.
It broke attendance records.

274
00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:12,531
So then it opened in Broadway.

275
00:17:12,573 --> 00:17:15,951
It took a lot of courage
for me to play this part.

276
00:17:15,993 --> 00:17:21,290
One does not feel quite
American in this sort of role.

277
00:17:21,331 --> 00:17:22,791
Humphrey urged me to play it

278
00:17:22,833 --> 00:17:26,837
because he thought
I could do it well.

279
00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:29,173
I tried to make the audience
forget to be cynical,

280
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:35,596
but naturally I dreaded
the avalanche of criticism
it would bring.

281
00:17:35,637 --> 00:17:37,473
By the end
of the 19th century,

282
00:17:37,514 --> 00:17:40,434
violets had become associated
with lesbianism.

283
00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:46,190
"The Captive" introduced
this to the entire
reading American public.

284
00:17:46,231 --> 00:17:47,983
Helen certainly did a lot

285
00:17:48,025 --> 00:17:50,486
for the lesbians of America.

286
00:17:50,527 --> 00:17:52,404
Women would send her
slave bracelets,

287
00:17:52,446 --> 00:17:54,531
and, most ironic of all,

288
00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:56,617
and probably
missing the point completely,

289
00:17:56,658 --> 00:17:59,536
the deans of several
women's colleges wrote,

290
00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,914
thanking her
for warning their students

291
00:18:01,955 --> 00:18:06,502
about the dangers
of a reprehensible attachment.

292
00:18:06,543 --> 00:18:09,213
At the same time,
Mae West is doing a preview

293
00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:11,048
of her new play
called "The Drag,"

294
00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:16,303
which was advertised as a male
version of "The Captive."

295
00:18:16,345 --> 00:18:18,722
The play
had been running undisturbed

296
00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,057
for six months.

297
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:21,850
Then Miss Mae West
and her troupe

298
00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:23,268
were hauled off to jail.

299
00:18:24,853 --> 00:18:26,605
Ooh. Lovely tie.

300
00:18:26,647 --> 00:18:30,067
The district attorney
raided "The Captive,"

301
00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:31,985
Mae West's play "Sex."

302
00:18:32,027 --> 00:18:36,156
They arrested 40 producers,
stage managers and actors,

303
00:18:36,198 --> 00:18:37,449
including Helen Menken.

304
00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:39,326
And this makes front-page news

305
00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:41,787
throughout the country.

306
00:18:41,829 --> 00:18:44,665
And so
I was carted off to court,

307
00:18:46,416 --> 00:18:48,418
and the show was closed.

308
00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:56,093
Censorship is the number one
enemy of a free democracy,

309
00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:59,680
and if America
is to continue to have
freedom of press and radio,

310
00:18:59,721 --> 00:19:01,765
these insidious
enemies of freedom

311
00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:04,434
must be
emphatically discouraged,

312
00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:05,936
because these men will move on

313
00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:08,814
to other means
of public expression.

314
00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,695
Bogart being married
to Menken at the time

315
00:19:14,736 --> 00:19:16,572
witnessed
what she went through.

316
00:19:16,613 --> 00:19:18,949
So I could imagine
that that would influence him

317
00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:20,409
in his own stance against

318
00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:25,122
censorship in the movies
that followed.

319
00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:28,917
We quarreled over the
most inconsequential things.

320
00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:31,712
What started out
just as a difference of opinion

321
00:19:31,753 --> 00:19:35,507
would suddenly become
a battle royale.

322
00:19:36,216 --> 00:19:37,342
I hated the idea

323
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,136
of coming to a divorce court.

324
00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:40,721
I tried to make my marriage

325
00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:42,806
the paramount interest
in my life,

326
00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:45,559
although my career
was a success.

327
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:47,811
We agreed to call it a day.

328
00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:49,855
How can you keep
a marriage together

329
00:19:49,897 --> 00:19:51,815
when neither of you
sees the other?

330
00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:54,860
We're through, see?
I'm not the guy for you.

331
00:19:54,902 --> 00:19:58,113
I've had plenty of girls,
and I'll have plenty more.

332
00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:01,491
I'd had enough
women by the time I was 27

333
00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:03,535
to know what I was looking for
in a wife

334
00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:05,829
the next time I married.

335
00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:11,001
I played it solo until
I met Mary Philips in 1928.

336
00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:13,253
Mary was an actress too.

337
00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:16,924
In one scene, I was delivering
a very dramatic speech.

338
00:20:16,965 --> 00:20:21,011
Mary was supposed to walk away
from me saying nothing.

339
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,723
I noticed she was putting
a lot of that into her walk,

340
00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:26,516
so much so that the audience

341
00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:29,811
focused their attention
on her instead of me.

342
00:20:29,853 --> 00:20:33,357
"You can't do that!"
I told her. "That's my scene."

343
00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:35,859
There was an amused twinkle
in her eye.

344
00:20:35,901 --> 00:20:38,528
"Suppose you try and stop me."

345
00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:40,239
Well,
I didn't try to stop her

346
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,907
because while I was talking,

347
00:20:41,949 --> 00:20:44,743
I suddenly became very aware
that here was a girl

348
00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:47,871
with whom I could easily
fall in love.

349
00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:51,208
Humphrey and I were married
by a Justice of the Peace

350
00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:54,002
in Hartford in April 1928.

351
00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:56,713
He was a strangely
puritanical man

352
00:20:56,755 --> 00:20:59,549
with very old-fashioned
virtues.

353
00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:02,052
He had class as well as charm.

354
00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:05,180
Mary was a mixture
of New England and Irish,

355
00:21:05,222 --> 00:21:10,435
and she furnished just the sort
of balance wheel I needed.

356
00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:23,949
The Depression was here,
and I didn't escape.

357
00:21:23,991 --> 00:21:27,661
The theater had gone to hell,
and so had my salary.

358
00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,663
I rehearsed for shows
that folded

359
00:21:29,705 --> 00:21:33,792
almost before
the first curtain had gone up.

360
00:21:55,188 --> 00:21:56,523
-Beryl.
-All right.

361
00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:58,984
Tell me
while you're getting dressed.

362
00:21:59,026 --> 00:22:01,028
Beryl, I gotta have some money.
$100.

363
00:22:01,069 --> 00:22:04,072
I can let you have 60 cents
of it. What's happened to Eddie?

364
00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:07,075
What makes you think it's for
Eddie? Oh, well, what if it is?

365
00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:10,120
-I've still got to have it.
-When are you gonna get wise
to yourself?

366
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:12,539
Can't you see it's just a matter
of time until that phony

367
00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:14,207
pulls you down
into his own class?

368
00:22:14,249 --> 00:22:16,626
I'm sick of hearing about men
that do the little things.

369
00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:20,714
Give me a guy that does
a big thing once in a while,
like paying a month's rent.

370
00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:22,883
Mary stayed
working on Broadway,

371
00:22:22,924 --> 00:22:25,719
and I was brought out
to Hollywood.

372
00:22:27,679 --> 00:22:29,639
Talking pictures
had just come in,

373
00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:32,934
and anybody from the stage
was jumped at.

374
00:22:36,688 --> 00:22:39,733
MGM had hit a gold mine
with Clark Gable.

375
00:22:39,775 --> 00:22:44,821
20th Century Fox needed a big,
rough answer to Gable.
That was me.

376
00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:47,032
I wasn't handsome, but
they made me up the same way

377
00:22:47,074 --> 00:22:49,409
they'd been doing the
good-looking boys for years.

378
00:22:49,451 --> 00:22:53,455
False eyelashes, red lips
and all. I felt like a dummy.

379
00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,540
I'm not ready yet
to settle down in the suburbs

380
00:22:55,582 --> 00:22:57,292
and wear golf panties.

381
00:22:57,334 --> 00:23:00,629
Also,
I was very lonely for Mary.

382
00:23:02,047 --> 00:23:06,510
-Well, say...
-Hey, you're in a hurry,
aren't you?

383
00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:10,013
No, I've got lots of time.

384
00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:13,517
-What's your name?
-What's your...

385
00:23:13,558 --> 00:23:15,811
Marianne Madison. What's yours?

386
00:23:15,852 --> 00:23:20,065
-Corliss. Val Corliss.
-Pleased to meet you.

387
00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:22,859
How would you like to take
a little walk, Mr. Corliss?

388
00:23:22,901 --> 00:23:25,779
There's nothing I'd rather do
than take a walk.

389
00:23:25,821 --> 00:23:28,031
I was at Fox for one year,

390
00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:30,367
during which I did
five pictures.

391
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:33,912
I wasn't surprised
Fox didn't renew my contract.

392
00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:34,871
I'll be back.

393
00:23:34,913 --> 00:23:36,289
That was when I packed it in

394
00:23:36,331 --> 00:23:38,125
and made for Broadway again.

395
00:23:38,166 --> 00:23:39,751
Oh, boy.

396
00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:42,170
I was convinced then

397
00:23:42,212 --> 00:23:44,714
I would never make it
in the movies.

398
00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:47,717
Bogart was not too successful
in those pictures.

399
00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:50,887
Indeed, he didn't make
any particular impression.

400
00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:52,639
And he came back to Broadway

401
00:23:52,681 --> 00:23:55,809
after about a year or two
working for Fox

402
00:23:55,851 --> 00:23:59,229
and was beginning to become,

403
00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:02,816
I have heard from friends
who knew him well at that time,

404
00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,276
he was beginning to become

405
00:24:04,317 --> 00:24:08,280
sort of a falling actor
and a rising drunk.

406
00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:13,618
Hey, you! Some more beer!
This time it's on me, boys.

407
00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:18,457
I sip about an ounce of booze
every hour, all day long.

408
00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:21,835
I read that the liver can only
work off one ounce per hour,

409
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:24,129
so I don't go much beyond that.

410
00:24:26,339 --> 00:24:29,968
I always liked stirring things
up, needling authority.

411
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:33,138
I guess I inherited it
from my parents.

412
00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:35,265
They fought.

413
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:37,267
We kids would pull the covers
over our ears

414
00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:39,561
to keep out
the sound of fighting.

415
00:24:39,603 --> 00:24:44,232
Our home was kept together
for the sake of propriety.

416
00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:47,110
What was curious about Maud and
Belmont is that both of them

417
00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:50,197
were dependent on drugs
for their comfort.

418
00:24:50,238 --> 00:24:53,450
Bogart Senior had had
a terrible accident.

419
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,744
He was in great pain.

420
00:24:55,785 --> 00:24:59,289
Most of
her life, Maud suffered
from migraine headaches.

421
00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:01,958
When the pain began,
it lashed her so terribly

422
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,668
that her left eye closed

423
00:25:03,710 --> 00:25:06,046
and the side of her face
flamed.

424
00:25:06,087 --> 00:25:09,299
Then my father shot a quarter
of a grain of morphine into her

425
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:11,843
to keep her from going insane.

426
00:25:13,136 --> 00:25:16,556
When I was 15,
my father made bad investments

427
00:25:16,598 --> 00:25:18,308
and lost a good deal of money.

428
00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:20,435
My mother
was the head illustrator

429
00:25:20,477 --> 00:25:22,771
for "Delineator" magazine.

430
00:25:22,812 --> 00:25:26,066
She saw instantly that
it was up to her to support us.

431
00:25:26,107 --> 00:25:29,653
From that moment on,
I never saw her relax,

432
00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:31,863
mentally or physically.

433
00:25:31,905 --> 00:25:34,908
What were the shows you did
before you went to the coast?

434
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,826
-Oh, Lord...
-I remember Cradle Snatchers.

435
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:40,580
Let's see, Cradle Snatchers was
one, and Saturday's Children.

436
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:44,501
And It's a Wise Child, The Most
Immoral Lady, Meet The Wife.

437
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:48,213
I was very lucky, Ed.
I had seven smash hits in a row.

438
00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:50,507
I was in them, although
I didn't have very big parts.

439
00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:54,094
Wasn't it Bob Sherwood's play
Petrified Forest...

440
00:25:54,135 --> 00:25:56,221
Yeah, that started me...

441
00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:58,848
-Typed you as a rough guy?
-...going with this thing.

442
00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:01,101
Yeah. It sent me out
to the movies.

443
00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:04,521
When Warners decided to film

444
00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:06,106
"The Petrified Forest,"

445
00:26:06,147 --> 00:26:09,025
they had Edward G Robinson
in mind for the part.

446
00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:11,069
Leslie Howard stuck out for me.

447
00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:13,905
He said he wouldn't do the film
unless I was cast

448
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:16,199
as Duke Mantee, the killer.

449
00:26:16,241 --> 00:26:20,537
-There's a picture
of Duke Mantee.
-Six killed?

450
00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,038
Hmm.

451
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,833
-Did he do all that?
-Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.

452
00:26:24,874 --> 00:26:27,210
Well, he doesn't look
very vicious, does he?

453
00:26:27,252 --> 00:26:29,546
I believe
that if I had not been given

454
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,089
the movie role of Duke Mantee,

455
00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:33,550
I'd be out of the films
altogether.

456
00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:37,304
Now, just behave yourself,
you two, and nobody'll get hurt.

457
00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:39,931
It marked
my deliverance from the ranks

458
00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:42,267
of the sleek,
stiff-shirted smoothies

459
00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:45,186
to which I had seemed
condemned for life.

460
00:26:45,228 --> 00:26:48,898
Maybe we'll decide
to get buried here.

461
00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:50,900
Well, you better
come with me, Duke.

462
00:26:50,942 --> 00:26:54,446
I'm planning to be buried
in the Petrified Forest.

463
00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:57,824
You know, I've been
evolving a theory about that
that would interest you.

464
00:26:57,866 --> 00:26:59,826
It's the graveyard
of the civilization

465
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,536
that's shot from under us.

466
00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:03,913
The world of outmoded ideas.

467
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,249
They're all so many dead stumps
in the desert.

468
00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:09,919
That's where I belong.
And so do you, Duke.

469
00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:14,174
You're the last great apostle
of rugged individualism.

470
00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:19,721
Tell us, Duke, what kind
of a life have you had?

471
00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:25,935
What do you think?
I spent most of my time
since I grew up in jail.

472
00:27:25,977 --> 00:27:29,022
And it looks like I'll spend
the rest of my life dead.

473
00:27:30,398 --> 00:27:32,359
I owe a lot to Leslie,

474
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,653
and he was always
a great friend of mine.

475
00:27:34,694 --> 00:27:38,740
It's not for nothing
my daughter is named Leslie.

476
00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:41,201
Get away from that door.

477
00:27:41,242 --> 00:27:42,702
You think I'm gonna let you
take those people out

478
00:27:42,744 --> 00:27:43,662
and slaughter them?

479
00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:45,538
Cut out the act, pal.

480
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:47,457
I won't let you do it, Duke.

481
00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:48,958
Okay, pal.

482
00:27:53,004 --> 00:27:56,007
I'll be seeing you soon.

483
00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:17,654
Because of "The
Petrified Forest" being a hit,

484
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:21,908
Jack Warner assigned me
to a contract with no options.

485
00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:27,038
My God, how I worked
in 1936 and '37.

486
00:28:28,998 --> 00:28:30,458
I no sooner
got finished with one,

487
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,378
then those bastards
had me in another.

488
00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:42,929
By the mid 1930s,

489
00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:44,431
the classical Hollywood
studio system

490
00:28:44,472 --> 00:28:46,641
was running
a factory-type operation.

491
00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:50,562
Pretty much the way
General Motors
was producing automobiles,

492
00:28:50,603 --> 00:28:54,315
Hollywood was producing
motion pictures.

493
00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:58,987
Mr. Warner
and I frequently disagreed

494
00:28:59,028 --> 00:29:01,406
as to what constituted
a good picture.

495
00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:04,534
I was used to the theater,
where I was shown a script

496
00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:06,578
and asked if I wanted
to play in it.

497
00:29:06,619 --> 00:29:09,289
I resented being thought of
as an employee.

498
00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:11,624
Did the Black Legion
have anything to do
with this, Taylor?

499
00:29:11,666 --> 00:29:14,878
Come on, Taylor, be
a good fella. Give us a story.

500
00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:18,840
Humphrey was away
all hours of the night.

501
00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:22,427
The marriage
had become monotonous.

502
00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:24,763
This was the
first time I'd really been able

503
00:29:24,804 --> 00:29:26,806
to support Mary.

504
00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:42,947
I asked her to stay in
Hollywood and start a family.

505
00:29:42,989 --> 00:29:44,657
I was becoming accustomed

506
00:29:44,699 --> 00:29:48,703
to my name in lights
outside the theater.

507
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,249
You got something here,
my friend.

508
00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:54,918
I'd say you deserved her,
only I don't think

509
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:57,253
any man's worth any woman.

510
00:29:59,255 --> 00:30:02,801
Marriage is not
to be taken lightly,

511
00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:05,970
to be put secondary
to one's selfish purposes,

512
00:30:06,012 --> 00:30:08,139
like a career.

513
00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:10,350
Mary Philips and I parted.

514
00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:14,854
Maybe it was my fault.
It was difficult to judge.

515
00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:29,619
I was walking off the dance
floor when I saw Mayo.

516
00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:32,247
She was wearing
a stunning red gown

517
00:30:32,288 --> 00:30:35,416
and looked
very, very interesting.

518
00:30:35,458 --> 00:30:37,418
I was besotted.

519
00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:41,798
Listen, toots,
when a gal like me loves a man,

520
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,175
nothing makes any difference.

521
00:30:44,217 --> 00:30:45,844
She had one fear.

522
00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:48,388
She didn't want just another
Hollywood marriage.

523
00:30:48,429 --> 00:30:51,850
So she made me promise
not to see her, phone her,

524
00:30:51,891 --> 00:30:53,893
or write to her
for three months.

525
00:30:53,935 --> 00:30:58,356
At the end of that time, we'd
know if it was the real thing.

526
00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:00,942
A little absent treatment
won't do any harm.

527
00:31:02,777 --> 00:31:05,113
I found out
about Portland's Rosebud

528
00:31:05,154 --> 00:31:07,323
in an old scrapbook.

529
00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:16,457
She had started off
on Broadway as a huge success.

530
00:31:16,499 --> 00:31:20,503
She was young and beautiful
and was highly sought after.

531
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:23,131
When she came to Hollywood,
she was able to play

532
00:31:23,172 --> 00:31:27,844
these fascinatingly
androgynous, tough,
very gritty characters,

533
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:30,138
the tough-talking dames.

534
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,142
Even the biggest stars
do a nosedive sometimes.

535
00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:38,771
Listen, you.
I'll be a star when this show's
rotting in the warehouse.

536
00:31:38,813 --> 00:31:40,940
All right, fine.

537
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:43,860
In the early 1930s, you had
lots of really exciting films

538
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:47,155
about young women liberated,
out in the workplace,

539
00:31:47,196 --> 00:31:48,823
and finding their own way
in the world,

540
00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:52,452
and often that meant
not playing by the rules.

541
00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:58,541
In the summer of 1934,
everything pretty much changed.

542
00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:02,503
The Hollywood censorship regime
really went into enforcement

543
00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:07,467
under the authority
of a very strict Irish Catholic
named Joseph Breen.

544
00:32:07,508 --> 00:32:12,639
All the motion picture
production companies
in the United States

545
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,475
have joined hands in adopting

546
00:32:15,516 --> 00:32:19,729
what has come to be known as
a "production code of ethics,"

547
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:22,023
to ensure screen entertainment

548
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:26,361
which will be
reasonably acceptable
to our patrons everywhere,

549
00:32:26,402 --> 00:32:29,656
entertainment which is
definitely free from offense.

550
00:32:29,697 --> 00:32:32,784
After the onset
of the Production Code regime,

551
00:32:32,825 --> 00:32:36,913
Hollywood adheres
to a very strict set
of moral commandments.

552
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:41,417
-No profanity on screen.
-No homosexuality on screen.

553
00:32:41,459 --> 00:32:46,464
♪ And on a great big battleship
you'd like to be... ♪

554
00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:49,342
♪ Working as chambermaids, ah ♪

555
00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:53,262
No interracial romance.

556
00:32:53,304 --> 00:32:55,932
No crime without punishment.

557
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:58,142
No disrespect to authority.

558
00:32:58,184 --> 00:33:00,520
No extramarital sex.

559
00:33:00,561 --> 00:33:04,732
And ultimately the women of the
1930s were suddenly relegated

560
00:33:04,774 --> 00:33:09,696
to the supporting character
of wife and/or mother.

561
00:33:09,737 --> 00:33:13,616
The vulgar, the cheap
and the tawdry is out.

562
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:17,912
The code sets up
high standards of performance

563
00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:20,206
for motion picture producers.

564
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:22,166
It states the considerations

565
00:33:22,208 --> 00:33:25,253
which good taste
and community value

566
00:33:25,294 --> 00:33:31,050
make necessary in this
universal form of entertainment.

567
00:33:31,092 --> 00:33:33,219
Ooh, mama!

568
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,556
I know just how you're feelin'.

569
00:33:36,597 --> 00:33:38,891
Mae West
is the big star of 1933,

570
00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:43,646
and the big star of 1934
is Shirley Temple.

571
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:47,650
Then come here.

572
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:50,987
After the code,
there was no place

573
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:52,363
for the particular persona

574
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:55,450
that Mayo Methot
had crafted so well.

575
00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:58,745
Sweetheart,
I'm never going to leave you.

576
00:34:00,913 --> 00:34:04,709
Here are these two people
who seem to be,
as they come together,

577
00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:07,837
really at kind of the same
point in their careers.

578
00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:10,465
You'll see that they're
on escalators side by side,

579
00:34:10,506 --> 00:34:12,717
and hers is going down
and his is coming up.

580
00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:14,677
But there they are,
meeting face to face,

581
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:19,182
just in the middle,
at this point in their lives.

582
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:23,519
She grew older,
whereas for Bogart
it was all right to grow older.

583
00:34:23,561 --> 00:34:26,856
I don't really look old, do I?

584
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:29,233
What do they expect a girl to
look like at six in the morning

585
00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:33,029
after dragging a lot of
heavyweight shoe salesmen around
the dance floor all night?

586
00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:34,697
Like a debutant?

587
00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:36,866
-You knew the deceased,
Betty Strauber?
-Yes, sir.

588
00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:38,910
Can you please speak a little
louder so the jury can hear you?

589
00:34:38,951 --> 00:34:42,538
-Yes, sir.
-What kind of a girl
would you say she was?

590
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,624
She was the sweetest kid
you ever saw.

591
00:34:44,665 --> 00:34:47,877
They boozed a great deal,
and they fought a great deal.

592
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,797
And I asked him why he enjoyed
fighting with her so much,

593
00:34:50,838 --> 00:34:52,715
and he said because
the making up was so pleasant.

594
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:57,220
I don't wanna fight with you
tonight, you beautiful...

595
00:35:13,569 --> 00:35:17,782
Both of us are actors,
so fights are easy to start.

596
00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:20,910
Actors always see the dramatic
quality in a situation

597
00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:22,578
more easily than other people

598
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:26,707
and can't resist
dramatizing it further.

599
00:35:26,749 --> 00:35:29,544
With us, it's second nature.
So I say something.

600
00:35:29,585 --> 00:35:33,923
If Mayo's in the groove,
she catches the cue
and sends it back to me.

601
00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:38,302
I pick it up from there, back
to her it goes, and we're off.

602
00:35:38,344 --> 00:35:40,680
One minute we're mad.
The next we're over it.

603
00:35:40,721 --> 00:35:45,351
We never hold grudges
or go on those silent sulks
that are so bad.

604
00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:48,855
We enjoy every minute
of every sword crossing.

605
00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:52,817
When they're over,
they're forgotten.

606
00:35:52,859 --> 00:35:55,069
Mayo and I
are the Battling Bogarts.

607
00:35:55,111 --> 00:35:59,240
We love it. And what's more,
we love each other.

608
00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:06,539
A left to the jaw,
and a right to the heart.

609
00:36:06,581 --> 00:36:08,958
Oh, you still think
I can wow 'em, don't you, Val?

610
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,169
Of course I do.

611
00:36:15,256 --> 00:36:17,550
I don't believe
in this new-fashioned idea

612
00:36:17,592 --> 00:36:22,138
of young women continuing
with their work after marriage.

613
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:27,310
I find time
as full as it ever was
when I was working steadily.

614
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:29,604
One way
that the studio publicists

615
00:36:29,645 --> 00:36:31,856
sort of kept control
of their wayward stars

616
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:37,028
was that actors were expected
to talk to the fan magazines.

617
00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:39,906
I plan the meals and take care
of Bogie's clothes,

618
00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:44,493
attend to buttons and mending
like a most admirable hausfrau.

619
00:36:44,535 --> 00:36:47,121
Actors would go into the fan
magazines and talk about

620
00:36:47,163 --> 00:36:50,666
all they really cared about
was home and family
and their husband,

621
00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:53,878
and pose for photographs by the
fire, or, like Mayo Methot did,

622
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,423
sitting at the feet of her
new husband, Humphrey Bogart.

623
00:36:57,465 --> 00:37:00,676
I'm not interested
in my career anymore.

624
00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:04,847
Humphrey's career
is my interest.

625
00:37:04,889 --> 00:37:08,768
It was the last thing
in the world that
she would have ever wanted.

626
00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:12,271
She was as hungry as he was,
or any other actor in town.

627
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,823
I played heavies in Hollywood
for eight or nine years.

628
00:37:22,865 --> 00:37:25,368
I was a punching block
for Cagney,

629
00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:28,621
Raft, Robinson, everybody.

630
00:37:28,663 --> 00:37:31,707
The gangster characters
I played are all the same.

631
00:37:31,749 --> 00:37:34,961
You could almost make a card
index of the lines they speak.

632
00:37:35,002 --> 00:37:39,173
"Get over against the wall."
"Get your hands up."

633
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:42,551
Crazy!

634
00:37:42,593 --> 00:37:46,555
-Any cop... cop...
-Here's one rap you won't beat.

635
00:37:46,597 --> 00:37:48,266
Hey...

636
00:37:48,307 --> 00:37:51,352
In my first
34 pictures, I was shot in 12,

637
00:37:51,394 --> 00:37:56,065
electrocuted
or hanged in eight,
and was a jailbird in nine.

638
00:37:56,107 --> 00:37:58,901
I always wound up dead
and never got the girl.

639
00:37:58,943 --> 00:38:02,405
A gangster is never allowed
to have any sex life.

640
00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:05,283
The Breen office,
you know, old boy.

641
00:38:09,078 --> 00:38:12,665
This was one of the pictures
that made me march
into Jack Warner

642
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,667
and ask for more money again.

643
00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:17,295
I was this doctor
brought back to life,

644
00:38:17,336 --> 00:38:21,757
and the only thing
that nourished
this poor bastard was blood.

645
00:38:21,799 --> 00:38:23,426
If it had been
Jack Warner's blood,

646
00:38:23,467 --> 00:38:25,219
maybe I wouldn't have minded
as much.

647
00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:27,638
The trouble was,
they were drinking mine,

648
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,058
and I was making
this stinking movie.

649
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:39,692
Tell Dr. Rhodes...

650
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:45,865
we'll have to postpone our talk
on... blood composition.

651
00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:50,411
Do you realize
you're looking at an actor

652
00:38:50,453 --> 00:38:52,413
who has made
more lousy pictures

653
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:54,540
than any other in history?

654
00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:58,669
I'd read a movie script
and yell that
it was not right for me.

655
00:38:58,711 --> 00:39:01,505
Jack Warner would phone
and say, "Be a good sport."

656
00:39:01,547 --> 00:39:03,341
I'd argue and say no.

657
00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:06,302
Then I'd get a letter
from the Warner Bros.' lawyers

658
00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:07,845
ordering me to report.

659
00:39:07,887 --> 00:39:09,472
I'd refuse.

660
00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:11,640
Then another wire from Warners

661
00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:15,519
saying that if I did not
report, he'd cut my throat.

662
00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:19,482
He'd always sign it,
"Love to Mayo."

663
00:39:21,984 --> 00:39:25,654
When my father died,
Maud doubled up momentarily

664
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:28,699
as if she'd had the wind
knocked out of her,

665
00:39:28,741 --> 00:39:33,162
then straightened up and said,
"Well, that's done."

666
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:36,332
I insisted she come west.

667
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:39,335
She thought California
a pretty rough place.

668
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:43,923
It had no traditions,
no social background.

669
00:39:43,964 --> 00:39:45,800
The building
was on Sunset Boulevard,

670
00:39:45,841 --> 00:39:48,511
two blocks
from Schwab's drugstore,

671
00:39:48,552 --> 00:39:52,181
the famed Hollywood emporium
where you could buy anything

672
00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:56,727
from a quart of French perfume
to a nickel hamburger.

673
00:40:00,606 --> 00:40:02,191
Schwab's provided her

674
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:05,361
with the activity
she missed in retirement.

675
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:06,612
She joined its congregation.

676
00:40:06,654 --> 00:40:08,030
She made little purchases

677
00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:11,700
and strolled
grandly home again.

678
00:40:11,742 --> 00:40:15,579
She was Lady Maud
with a vengeance.

679
00:40:18,499 --> 00:40:21,085
Maud was not a woman one loved.

680
00:40:21,127 --> 00:40:24,296
For such was her drive,
her singleness of purpose,

681
00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:27,842
that none of us
could really get at her.

682
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:34,306
What an adorable boy he was.
Sweet and darling.

683
00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:38,436
I don't know why he has to play
all these dreadful parts.

684
00:40:40,563 --> 00:40:44,400
She did not complain
about her final illness.

685
00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:46,068
She said nothing to anyone

686
00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:48,779
until it was much too late
to do anything for her.

687
00:40:48,821 --> 00:40:52,575
Instead, at 75,
she went into a hospital,

688
00:40:52,616 --> 00:40:55,619
slipped into a coma, and died.

689
00:40:56,787 --> 00:41:01,125
When this remarkable, gifted,

690
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:04,128
successful illustrator
died in 1940,

691
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:07,506
her son was given
the death certificate

692
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:11,218
to sign and put her occupation.

693
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:14,263
And he put "housewife."

694
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:16,891
I'm awful sorry
for the way I've acted.

695
00:41:16,932 --> 00:41:18,767
You got nothing
to be sorry about.

696
00:41:18,809 --> 00:41:23,189
Yes, I have, nagging at you
for flying off the handle.

697
00:41:23,230 --> 00:41:25,441
I wish I hadn't. Oh...

698
00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,777
Oh, I like it. I mean,
that's the way married people
ought to act.

699
00:41:28,819 --> 00:41:32,990
Listen, my ma and pa
fought like cats and dogs
going on 40 years.

700
00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:36,118
I wouldn't give you two cents
for a dame without a temper.

701
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:43,876
Well, I was a writer
at Warner Bros. in the '30s.

702
00:41:43,918 --> 00:41:47,963
Bogart was
a contract actor there.

703
00:41:48,005 --> 00:41:50,633
Um, I used to see him
on the lot,

704
00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:54,136
and, uh, we became friends.

705
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:59,725
And presently I wrote a picture
that Bogart did, "High Sierra."

706
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,440
When the Communist scare
came along, around 1940,

707
00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:09,443
an early version
of the House Committee
on Un-American activities,

708
00:42:09,485 --> 00:42:10,819
which was known as HUAC,

709
00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:12,488
came out
and was holding hearings.

710
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:15,032
Bogart spent an afternoon
with the committee,

711
00:42:15,074 --> 00:42:17,034
not giving them anything
that they wanted

712
00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:19,078
but becoming
more and more incensed

713
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:22,456
by the way he had been accused
by a man named Joseph Leech,

714
00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:25,209
who had written letters
saying that Bogart
and others were seen

715
00:42:25,251 --> 00:42:28,504
at Communist Party meetings,
which was just bunk.

716
00:42:30,172 --> 00:42:32,341
I'd always been
a loyal citizen.

717
00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:33,968
I resented the intrusion

718
00:42:34,009 --> 00:42:38,180
and the insinuation
that I was anything else.

719
00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:40,683
He came out and he said,
"I can't stand by anymore.

720
00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:42,268
We can't let America
come to this."

721
00:42:42,309 --> 00:42:44,228
And that was his beginning
into politics,

722
00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:47,856
which would really
come forth in 1947.

723
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:56,991
-Mayo's a grand girl.
-She knows how to handle me.

724
00:42:57,032 --> 00:43:00,244
When I go to a party and
the party spirit gets at me,

725
00:43:00,286 --> 00:43:03,497
I'm apt to flirt
with any amusing girl I see,

726
00:43:03,539 --> 00:43:05,207
but I don't mean it.

727
00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:08,669
My wife's job, and Mayo
has promised to take it on,

728
00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:13,465
is to yank me out of the fire
before I get burned.

729
00:43:13,507 --> 00:43:18,304
I like a jealous wife.
I can be a jealous husband too.

730
00:43:18,345 --> 00:43:20,472
There is nothing
that cannot be ironed out

731
00:43:20,514 --> 00:43:23,684
between two people
who love each other.

732
00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:25,853
Do I ever throw things?
Oh, yes.

733
00:43:25,894 --> 00:43:30,733
But the funny thing is,
I never seem to throw things
I really like.

734
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:32,443
Old things that won't break,

735
00:43:32,484 --> 00:43:36,614
metal ashtrays and so on,
are fine for throwing.

736
00:43:36,655 --> 00:43:38,490
Phonograph records are superb.

737
00:43:38,532 --> 00:43:41,410
They make
such a satisfactory crash...

738
00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:50,085
If you're too tame,
you're half dead.

739
00:43:50,127 --> 00:43:55,007
Bogie and I like excitement.
We need it.

740
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:59,345
I got myself into a
dinghy once and rode out there.

741
00:43:59,386 --> 00:44:01,096
Well, they both came out,

742
00:44:01,138 --> 00:44:04,433
and everything was bleeding
on 'em, particularly noses,

743
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:06,226
and they yanked me on the boat

744
00:44:06,268 --> 00:44:08,062
and they said,
"Have a drink, Joanie,"

745
00:44:08,103 --> 00:44:10,064
and gave us a drink,
and they were the best of pals.

746
00:44:10,105 --> 00:44:12,316
Bogie took a piece of ice
out of his highball glass

747
00:44:12,358 --> 00:44:15,653
and put it at the back
of his neck to stop
the bleeding, and says,

748
00:44:15,694 --> 00:44:17,279
"Boy, is she a dame.

749
00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:21,075
She's got a right like
a truck driver. Look at my eye!"

750
00:44:21,116 --> 00:44:22,576
And she'd say, "That guy!

751
00:44:22,618 --> 00:44:24,453
Look at this shiner!"
And she had one.

752
00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:26,872
And whatever piece of meat
or anything I had,

753
00:44:26,914 --> 00:44:28,207
I'd plunk it on her eye.

754
00:44:28,248 --> 00:44:32,294
And then we laughed,
and they laughed,

755
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:33,754
and we had a lovely time.

756
00:44:36,298 --> 00:44:38,967
I think that when you're living
day to day with someone

757
00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:40,636
who is embracing the career

758
00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:43,347
that you've been fighting for
your whole life,

759
00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:44,890
and you can see your own career

760
00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:46,475
just slipping completely
out of view,

761
00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:49,687
that must be
entirely devastating.

762
00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:55,734
She had seen
what it was like to be a star.

763
00:44:55,776 --> 00:44:57,695
She had enough taste
of being a star

764
00:44:57,736 --> 00:44:58,904
to know how much she wanted it.

765
00:44:58,946 --> 00:45:01,031
And every day it became

766
00:45:01,073 --> 00:45:02,991
less and less possible for her.

767
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:06,036
And that had to feed
into the unhappiness

768
00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:07,996
that she had in the marriage.

769
00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:14,211
Oh, I could have got out of it
once, but I had a rotten break.

770
00:45:14,253 --> 00:45:16,046
I fell in love.

771
00:45:23,846 --> 00:45:29,935
After the gangster era,
Hitler was acting out scripts
far more brutal

772
00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:34,189
than anything that
the Capone gang or Warner Bros.
had ever conceived.

773
00:45:34,231 --> 00:45:38,736
And at that point,
when reality was so gruesome,

774
00:45:38,777 --> 00:45:40,404
you could not have heroes

775
00:45:40,446 --> 00:45:44,533
with curly hair and soft voices
like Leslie Howard.

776
00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:47,119
They were suddenly dated.

777
00:45:51,206 --> 00:45:55,127
"The Maltese
Falcon" was the first
of the private eye movies.

778
00:45:55,169 --> 00:45:58,297
I wanna talk to Mr. Cairo.
Joel Cairo.

779
00:45:58,338 --> 00:46:01,717
I had
a lot going for me in that one.

780
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:03,886
First there was Huston.

781
00:46:03,927 --> 00:46:07,765
The original intention
was to have George Raft
play it.

782
00:46:07,806 --> 00:46:09,224
But he pulled away from it

783
00:46:09,266 --> 00:46:12,269
because he didn't want
to trust his career

784
00:46:12,311 --> 00:46:16,440
to a young director, to someone
who had never directed before.

785
00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:21,945
And, um, Bogart,
to my secret delight,

786
00:46:21,987 --> 00:46:24,907
was substituted.

787
00:46:27,743 --> 00:46:31,622
That picture began, I think,
a whole new career for Bogie.

788
00:46:31,663 --> 00:46:35,000
-What do you want here?
-I'm Sam Spade.
Tom Polhaus phoned.

789
00:46:35,042 --> 00:46:37,252
Oh, I didn't know you at first.
Back there.

790
00:46:37,294 --> 00:46:39,922
I was the first Sam Spade.

791
00:46:39,963 --> 00:46:44,259
I don't have many things
I'm proud of, but that's one.

792
00:46:44,301 --> 00:46:47,471
The trench coat
has become a trademark.

793
00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:50,265
I do like a man
who tells you right out

794
00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:52,100
he's looking out for himself.

795
00:46:52,142 --> 00:46:56,271
Don't we all? I don't trust
a man who says he's not.

796
00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:57,940
Uh-huh.

797
00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:14,706
The most effective
American war propaganda
during the Second World War

798
00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:18,502
takes traditional
old Hollywood genres

799
00:47:18,544 --> 00:47:23,298
and adapts them for
the purposes of the war effort.

800
00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:30,389
Rick, there's gonna be
excitement here tonight.

801
00:47:30,430 --> 00:47:32,266
We're going to make an arrest
in your café.

802
00:47:32,307 --> 00:47:34,059
-Again?
-Oh, this is no ordinary arrest.

803
00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:36,144
A murderer no less.

804
00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:38,605
If you're thinking of warning
him, don't put yourself out.

805
00:47:38,647 --> 00:47:40,190
He cannot possibly escape.

806
00:47:40,232 --> 00:47:43,443
-I stick my neck out for nobody.
-A wise foreign policy.

807
00:47:43,485 --> 00:47:45,988
It is trying
to persuade those Americans

808
00:47:46,029 --> 00:47:49,157
who might be the traditional
American loner, like Rick,

809
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:51,869
that you really do
have to commit yourself.

810
00:47:51,910 --> 00:47:54,705
Whatever gave you the impression
that I might be interested

811
00:47:54,746 --> 00:47:56,164
in helping Laszlo escape?

812
00:47:56,206 --> 00:47:57,916
Because, my dear Ricky,
I suspect

813
00:47:57,958 --> 00:47:59,877
that under that cynical shell,

814
00:47:59,918 --> 00:48:01,336
you're at heart
a sentimentalist.

815
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:05,173
We wanted to have
a romantic hero

816
00:48:05,215 --> 00:48:08,302
who was working for the allies.

817
00:48:08,343 --> 00:48:10,762
I mean, if he's the rebel,
he's the rebel in a good cause.

818
00:48:10,804 --> 00:48:14,141
-He's the rebel
on behalf of the people.

819
00:48:14,182 --> 00:48:15,851
Play "La Marseillaise." Play it.

820
00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:18,687
He's against all the pomp
and the officialdom,

821
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:22,608
and the sleazy operations
of the establishment.

822
00:48:27,529 --> 00:48:32,200
♪ No matter
what the future brings ♪

823
00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:35,704
♪ As time goes by ♪

824
00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:38,248
Sam, I thought I told you
never to play it.

825
00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:44,129
It's hard to be married
to a movie star.

826
00:48:44,171 --> 00:48:45,839
You never know
when you might lose him

827
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:48,216
to a more beautiful woman.

828
00:48:48,258 --> 00:48:51,053
Unless she's completely devoid
of jealousy,

829
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:52,638
she cannot help it.

830
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:55,390
It is a perfectly human thing
to do.

831
00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,728
When I come home
from working on "Casablanca,"

832
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:01,855
Mayo is ready for me.

833
00:49:01,897 --> 00:49:05,567
Sometimes I think
she lies in ambush for me.

834
00:49:36,765 --> 00:49:39,935
I had admired Bogart very much
as an actor.

835
00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:41,395
I found him fascinating.

836
00:49:41,436 --> 00:49:44,231
There was something mysterious
about him.

837
00:49:44,272 --> 00:49:49,653
And it was dangerous.
There was danger around him.

838
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:52,280
I always felt
there was a distance.

839
00:49:52,322 --> 00:49:55,534
It was like
he was behind a wall.

840
00:49:57,452 --> 00:50:00,789
"Casablanca" solidifies
Bogart's star status.

841
00:50:00,831 --> 00:50:02,332
He gets the validation

842
00:50:02,374 --> 00:50:05,293
that every true top billed star
has to have,

843
00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:07,713
which is the romantic lead.

844
00:50:07,754 --> 00:50:11,466
People had doubts about whether
he could make that transition

845
00:50:11,508 --> 00:50:13,427
into the dreamy romantic lead.

846
00:50:13,468 --> 00:50:16,847
They asked him whether
he thought he was adorable,

847
00:50:16,888 --> 00:50:18,473
and Bogart replied,

848
00:50:18,515 --> 00:50:21,852
"If Ingrid Bergman looks at you
like you're adorable,

849
00:50:21,893 --> 00:50:23,562
then you're adorable."

850
00:50:24,896 --> 00:50:27,357
Here's looking at you, kid.

851
00:51:00,724 --> 00:51:03,351
♪ Embrace me ♪

852
00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:10,150
♪ My sweet embraceable you ♪

853
00:51:11,443 --> 00:51:13,487
♪ Embrace me ♪

854
00:51:13,528 --> 00:51:15,864
♪ You irreplaceable... ♪

855
00:51:15,906 --> 00:51:20,327
Mayo and Humphrey came in
and stood briefly at our table
to say hello

856
00:51:20,368 --> 00:51:22,871
and tell us that they were
on their way to Africa

857
00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:24,414
to entertain the troops.

858
00:51:24,456 --> 00:51:27,375
They neither spoke
nor looked at each other

859
00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:29,878
until the drinks
were brought to the table.

860
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,507
It was plain that the team
of the Battling Bogarts

861
00:51:33,548 --> 00:51:35,801
was soon to break up.

862
00:51:35,842 --> 00:51:38,804
-How are our boys doing?
-Our boys are doing a great job.

863
00:51:38,845 --> 00:51:42,474
On our trip overseas,
my wife and I saw
thousands of American boys

864
00:51:42,516 --> 00:51:46,228
in Africa and Italy, and you can
be awfully proud of them.

865
00:51:46,269 --> 00:51:48,063
We did the best we could
to entertain them.

866
00:51:48,105 --> 00:51:50,440
There's an organization
that's looking after them

867
00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:52,234
in every theater of the war.

868
00:51:52,275 --> 00:51:55,237
That's the American Red Cross.

869
00:52:03,286 --> 00:52:06,873
Humphrey Bogart
had become big business.

870
00:52:06,915 --> 00:52:10,752
It was time for Lauren Bacall
to make her entrance.

871
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:15,048
She who was also to become
his perfect screen partner.

872
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:20,137
As seductive as Eve.
As cool as the serpent.

873
00:52:20,178 --> 00:52:21,805
Anybody got a match?

874
00:52:37,112 --> 00:52:38,572
Thanks.

875
00:53:06,308 --> 00:53:08,977
"Sam, I want you
to come up see me right away.

876
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:12,689
I've been stabbed." I said
"What?" He said "Stabbed."

877
00:53:12,731 --> 00:53:15,775
And I walked in,
and he turned around,

878
00:53:15,817 --> 00:53:17,194
and he had a...

879
00:53:17,235 --> 00:53:22,616
a... a heavy,
uh, English tweed jacket.

880
00:53:22,657 --> 00:53:25,243
And as he turned around,
I could see there was blood.

881
00:53:25,285 --> 00:53:27,579
The blood had come
right through.

882
00:53:27,621 --> 00:53:30,332
And the argument was that
they had a...

883
00:53:30,373 --> 00:53:33,710
they had a difference of opinion
about politics.

884
00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:12,874
He awakened in me
obviously something

885
00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:14,584
that had never
been awakened before

886
00:54:14,626 --> 00:54:17,295
and something
that I really needed.

887
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:19,297
And I needed someone
to really care about me.

888
00:54:19,339 --> 00:54:21,925
And I guess I needed a man
to care about me.

889
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:23,927
And he was this...

890
00:54:23,969 --> 00:54:26,721
He was the most caring man
that I've ever known.

891
00:54:26,763 --> 00:54:30,558
And it just happened
that suddenly

892
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,811
I just had to be
with him all the time.

893
00:55:03,216 --> 00:55:04,759
Come into my boudoir.

894
00:55:04,801 --> 00:55:06,594
We started shooting
"The Big Sleep"

895
00:55:06,636 --> 00:55:08,930
on October 10th, 1944.

896
00:55:08,972 --> 00:55:10,682
He told me
that the last few weeks

897
00:55:10,724 --> 00:55:13,435
had been the most difficult
of his life.

898
00:55:13,476 --> 00:55:15,562
Mayo said
she'd stopped drinking.

899
00:55:15,603 --> 00:55:18,106
He had to give her a chance.

900
00:55:18,148 --> 00:55:20,150
After about two weeks
of shooting,

901
00:55:20,191 --> 00:55:21,651
the phone rang late one night.

902
00:55:21,693 --> 00:55:23,320
He'd had a fight with Mayo,
of course.

903
00:55:23,361 --> 00:55:25,613
She'd been drinking when
he got back from the studio

904
00:55:25,655 --> 00:55:29,117
and things went
from bad to worse.

905
00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:31,536
About three weeks into
the picture, Bogie left home

906
00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:34,456
and checked into
the Beverly Hills Hotel.

907
00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:39,461
I couldn't
go on with the battles we had.

908
00:55:39,502 --> 00:55:41,796
I wanted a new life.

909
00:55:45,383 --> 00:55:47,010
What's wrong with you?

910
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:50,680
Nothing you can't fix.

911
00:55:50,722 --> 00:55:54,267
It's hard to break up
a marriage of six years,

912
00:55:54,309 --> 00:55:57,645
but we'd had so many fights.

913
00:55:57,687 --> 00:55:59,564
I believed it was
the right thing to do,

914
00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:03,109
and she was too sensible
to want to hold me.

915
00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:07,822
Howard Hawks tried
to discourage the relationship.

916
00:56:07,864 --> 00:56:11,826
Oh, yes.
Oh, he kept saying to me,

917
00:56:11,868 --> 00:56:14,704
"Oh, he'll never marry you.
Oh, don't be..."

918
00:56:14,746 --> 00:56:17,832
And I would cry.
I was in tears most of the time.

919
00:56:17,874 --> 00:56:20,335
And he'd say to Bogie, "Listen,
you don't have to marry.

920
00:56:20,377 --> 00:56:22,128
Why don't you get
a little hotel room?"

921
00:56:22,170 --> 00:56:26,633
That was not Bogie's style
at all, so it was...

922
00:56:26,674 --> 00:56:30,095
Howard did everything he could
to try to stop it,

923
00:56:30,136 --> 00:56:31,930
but it was unstoppable.

924
00:56:55,370 --> 00:56:59,082
I never believed
that I could love again,

925
00:56:59,124 --> 00:57:01,418
for so many things
have happened in my life

926
00:57:01,459 --> 00:57:04,546
that I was afraid to love.

927
00:57:13,054 --> 00:57:17,434
I never was happy
until I met that one.

928
00:57:32,907 --> 00:57:35,577
My mother was born
Betty Joan Perske.

929
00:57:35,618 --> 00:57:42,000
The family name on my
grandmother's side was Bacall.

930
00:57:42,041 --> 00:57:45,295
Howard Hawks,
he didn't like the name Betty,

931
00:57:45,336 --> 00:57:46,838
so he gave her the name Lauren.

932
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:52,469
Everybody who knew her
called her Betty.

933
00:57:52,510 --> 00:57:55,930
At that time,
was there any point
where you thought,

934
00:57:55,972 --> 00:57:59,309
"I just can't take this crazy,
sick Hollywood scene"?

935
00:57:59,350 --> 00:58:04,481
Oh, it was magic.
It was a fairyland to me
when I first went out.

936
00:58:04,522 --> 00:58:05,982
All those green trees.

937
00:58:06,024 --> 00:58:08,109
All those palm trees,
and the green grass,

938
00:58:08,151 --> 00:58:10,862
and the oranges,
and the grapefruits.

939
00:58:10,904 --> 00:58:13,114
The lemons. Lots of lemons.

940
00:58:15,074 --> 00:58:17,118
-Including one or two pictures.
-Yeah.

941
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,955
I think if I had not had Bogie
as a guide, I really...

942
00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:23,666
I dread to think
what might have happened.

943
00:58:23,708 --> 00:58:26,586
When he used to talk about
actors who believed
their own publicity,

944
00:58:26,628 --> 00:58:30,298
he said they forgot that the
studio planted the publicity.

945
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:33,843
They really began to believe
that it was them.

946
00:58:33,885 --> 00:58:36,179
And it's very easy
to believe that.

947
00:58:36,221 --> 00:58:41,267
Certainly when you're 19,
it's very easy to believe it.

948
00:58:41,309 --> 00:58:43,978
Jack Warner decided he wanted
to put me in a picture

949
00:58:44,020 --> 00:58:47,941
called "Confidential Agent"
with Charles Boyer.

950
00:58:49,317 --> 00:58:52,028
I was not mad
about the script or my part.

951
00:58:52,070 --> 00:58:54,322
Bogie didn't think
much of it either.

952
00:58:54,364 --> 00:58:57,325
But to cast me
as an aristocratic English girl

953
00:58:57,367 --> 00:58:59,702
was more than a stretch.

954
00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:05,166
Betty went from
what was practically oblivion

955
00:59:05,208 --> 00:59:07,919
to the spotlight
of world attention.

956
00:59:07,961 --> 00:59:10,964
Then, before she had time
to catch her breath,

957
00:59:11,005 --> 00:59:15,718
she took a panning
that would have staggered
even a seasoned star.

958
00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:20,348
The press went out of their way
to knock her,

959
00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:22,559
just as they had built her up.

960
00:59:24,435 --> 00:59:25,853
The plain fact of the matter is

961
00:59:25,895 --> 00:59:28,106
that Betty was lauded
for one picture

962
00:59:28,147 --> 00:59:30,441
out of all proportion
to her deserts,

963
00:59:30,483 --> 00:59:35,405
and panned for another that
wasn't by any means her fault.

964
00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:38,950
Betty had to learn two great
lessons practically overnight.

965
00:59:38,992 --> 00:59:40,868
The lesson
of how to handle oneself

966
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:44,122
in the face of immediate
and unexpected success,

967
00:59:44,163 --> 00:59:50,211
and that other lesson
of how to take immediate
and unexpected failure.

968
00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:54,132
I fell from the top of that
ladder with a resounding crash,

969
00:59:54,173 --> 00:59:57,927
and it was the last time Jack
Warner made a choice for me.

970
01:00:00,096 --> 01:00:01,848
My mother's movie career

971
01:00:01,889 --> 01:00:06,394
was kind of based
on my father's career.

972
01:00:06,436 --> 01:00:07,937
She tried to separate herself,

973
01:00:07,979 --> 01:00:10,273
but it all came back
to Bogie and Bacall,

974
01:00:10,315 --> 01:00:13,568
because they were
one of the more famous couples

975
01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,945
of that century.

976
01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:27,957
Throughout the 1940s,
there is a real concern

977
01:00:27,999 --> 01:00:30,710
that not only
will the Soviet Union

978
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:31,919
be a threat to our democracy

979
01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:33,921
but that the Soviet Union

980
01:00:33,963 --> 01:00:36,007
has a fifth column, so-called,

981
01:00:36,049 --> 01:00:38,217
of subversive agents
within America

982
01:00:38,259 --> 01:00:43,139
also trying to undermine
American democracy.

983
01:00:43,181 --> 01:00:44,932
Communism in reality

984
01:00:44,974 --> 01:00:47,268
is not a political party.

985
01:00:47,310 --> 01:00:48,728
It is a way of life.

986
01:00:48,770 --> 01:00:51,648
An evil and malignant
way of life.

987
01:00:51,689 --> 01:00:54,942
It reveals a condition
akin to disease

988
01:00:54,984 --> 01:00:56,444
that spreads like an epidemic.

989
01:00:56,486 --> 01:00:57,695
And like an epidemic,

990
01:00:57,737 --> 01:00:59,280
a quarantine is necessary

991
01:00:59,322 --> 01:01:01,991
to keep it from infecting
this nation.

992
01:01:02,825 --> 01:01:04,202
The Hollywood Ten

993
01:01:04,243 --> 01:01:06,079
were that group
of screenwriters,

994
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,081
one producer, one director,

995
01:01:08,122 --> 01:01:10,166
who did not support the agenda

996
01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:12,460
of the House Un-American
Activities Committee,

997
01:01:12,502 --> 01:01:16,631
which was to investigate
alleged communist subversion
in Hollywood.

998
01:01:16,673 --> 01:01:18,716
And if you opposed that agenda,

999
01:01:18,758 --> 01:01:20,593
you were called
an unfriendly witness,

1000
01:01:20,635 --> 01:01:22,011
and you were subpoenaed

1001
01:01:22,053 --> 01:01:25,098
to come testify
before Congress.

1002
01:01:25,139 --> 01:01:27,141
The question
before this committee

1003
01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:31,270
will be to determine the extent
of communist infiltration

1004
01:01:31,312 --> 01:01:33,356
in the Hollywood
motion picture industry.

1005
01:01:33,398 --> 01:01:36,192
Ideological
termites have burrowed

1006
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:40,029
into many American industries,
organizations and societies.

1007
01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:44,826
Wherever they may be,
I say let us dig them out
and get rid of them.

1008
01:01:49,622 --> 01:01:52,417
Our planeload of Hollywood
performers came east

1009
01:01:52,458 --> 01:01:54,544
to fight against
what we considered

1010
01:01:54,585 --> 01:01:57,004
censorship of the movies.

1011
01:01:57,046 --> 01:01:59,507
Our object
was to exert our influence

1012
01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:01,092
in defense of a principle,

1013
01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:04,220
the principle that
no man should be forced to tell

1014
01:02:04,262 --> 01:02:07,056
what political party
he belongs to.

1015
01:02:07,098 --> 01:02:09,517
None of us ever thought
for a moment

1016
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,185
that we were
defending communists,

1017
01:02:11,227 --> 01:02:13,688
or that it had anything
to do with that.

1018
01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:15,398
As far as we were concerned,

1019
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,151
we were defending man's right
to defend himself,

1020
01:02:18,192 --> 01:02:24,157
which Mr. J Parnell Thomas
was not allowing anyone to do.

1021
01:02:24,198 --> 01:02:26,659
Are you or have you ever been
a member of the Communist Party?

1022
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:29,579
I believe
I have the right to be
confronted with any evidence

1023
01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:31,873
which supports this question.

1024
01:02:31,914 --> 01:02:33,833
I should like to see
what you have.

1025
01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:37,295
It's unfortunate and tragic that
I have to teach this committee

1026
01:02:37,336 --> 01:02:39,005
the basic principles
of Americanism.

1027
01:02:39,046 --> 01:02:41,174
That's not the question!

1028
01:02:41,215 --> 01:02:44,385
It is an invasion
of the right of association
under the Bill of Rights.

1029
01:02:44,427 --> 01:02:46,721
Please be responsive
to the question.

1030
01:02:46,763 --> 01:02:48,556
The rights of American citizens

1031
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:50,308
are important in this room here,

1032
01:02:50,349 --> 01:02:53,895
and I intend
to stand up for those rights.

1033
01:02:56,147 --> 01:02:58,232
BOGART, ARCHIVE RECORDING:
This is Humphrey Bogart.

1034
01:02:58,274 --> 01:03:02,612
We sat in the committee room
and heard it happen. We saw it.

1035
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:05,573
We saw American citizens
denied the right to speak

1036
01:03:05,615 --> 01:03:08,284
by elected representatives
of the people.

1037
01:03:08,326 --> 01:03:12,205
We saw police take citizens
from the stand like criminals

1038
01:03:12,246 --> 01:03:15,374
after they'd been refused
the right to defend themselves.

1039
01:03:15,416 --> 01:03:17,251
We saw the gavel
of a committee chairman

1040
01:03:17,293 --> 01:03:20,588
cutting off the words
of free Americans.

1041
01:03:20,630 --> 01:03:25,343
The sound of that gavel, Mr.
Thomas, rings across America.

1042
01:03:25,384 --> 01:03:28,638
Because every time
your gavel struck,

1043
01:03:28,679 --> 01:03:30,223
it hit the First Amendment

1044
01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:33,601
to the Constitution
of the United States.

1045
01:03:33,643 --> 01:03:36,020
I think
the industry is so censored

1046
01:03:36,062 --> 01:03:38,105
and so shot at by factions

1047
01:03:38,147 --> 01:03:40,274
that it's like
a cowering rabbit,

1048
01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:42,235
afraid to stick its head out.

1049
01:03:42,276 --> 01:03:45,780
In the shuffle, we became
adopted by the communists,

1050
01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:47,365
and I ended up with my picture

1051
01:03:47,406 --> 01:03:50,576
on the front page
of the "Daily Worker."

1052
01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:53,454
Bogart, because he was
the most famous of the lot,

1053
01:03:53,496 --> 01:03:55,623
is the one who started
taking the criticism.

1054
01:03:55,665 --> 01:03:59,210
Tremendous pressure
was put on him.

1055
01:03:59,252 --> 01:04:01,295
Bogart has a press conference

1056
01:04:01,337 --> 01:04:02,880
in which he basically says,

1057
01:04:02,922 --> 01:04:04,507
"I was naive and stupid,

1058
01:04:04,549 --> 01:04:06,801
and I apologize
for doing what I did."

1059
01:04:06,843 --> 01:04:08,636
And it's really sort of one of

1060
01:04:08,678 --> 01:04:12,014
the more humiliating moments
in Bogart's life.

1061
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:18,145
I was surprised to read
that Bogie had recanted

1062
01:04:18,187 --> 01:04:19,730
in the light of ensuing events.

1063
01:04:19,772 --> 01:04:23,943
Why, I regard it as a mistake
that Bogie did this.

1064
01:04:23,985 --> 01:04:25,945
He should have
stuck to his guns.

1065
01:04:25,987 --> 01:04:27,572
But I quite understand
why he didn't.

1066
01:04:27,613 --> 01:04:32,368
The man who followed Thomas
in the Senate, McCarthy,

1067
01:04:32,410 --> 01:04:37,665
made a nightmare out of his
decade, and... and no one...

1068
01:04:37,707 --> 01:04:42,837
So we can't hold Bogie too
strictly to account for this.

1069
01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:47,049
No one, literally no one,

1070
01:04:47,091 --> 01:04:50,678
had the...
the courage to speak up.

1071
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,222
Warner was one
of the worst, if you ask me.

1072
01:04:53,264 --> 01:04:56,976
He and a good many
of the stuffed shirts
who control this town

1073
01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:58,352
decided they had to
do something

1074
01:04:58,394 --> 01:05:00,646
to take the heat
off the industry.

1075
01:05:00,688 --> 01:05:02,356
That's why they set up
the blacklist

1076
01:05:02,398 --> 01:05:05,818
of stars, writers, producers.

1077
01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:08,029
The other things,
maybe they're true.

1078
01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:09,947
Maybe it is a rotten world.

1079
01:05:09,989 --> 01:05:11,741
But a cause isn't lost
as long as someone

1080
01:05:11,782 --> 01:05:12,867
is willing to go on fighting.

1081
01:05:12,909 --> 01:05:14,911
Well, I'm not that someone.

1082
01:05:16,412 --> 01:05:20,207
But you are. You may not wanna
be, but you can't help yourself.

1083
01:05:20,249 --> 01:05:22,084
Your whole life's against you.

1084
01:05:22,126 --> 01:05:24,420
What do you know about my life?

1085
01:05:26,088 --> 01:05:27,506
A whole lot.

1086
01:05:29,425 --> 01:05:31,135
What was the name of that song?

1087
01:05:31,177 --> 01:05:32,970
"The Bold Fisherman."

1088
01:05:33,012 --> 01:05:35,181
It's an old sea shanty that
my father used to sing to me

1089
01:05:35,222 --> 01:05:36,933
when I was
about eight years old.

1090
01:05:36,974 --> 01:05:39,393
Would you sound
a bell note for Mr. Bogart

1091
01:05:39,435 --> 01:05:43,814
so he could start this
immortal song of the sea, hmm?

1092
01:05:46,359 --> 01:05:52,782
♪ There was
a bold fisherman set sail
from off Billingsgate ♪

1093
01:05:52,823 --> 01:05:58,204
♪ To catch the bold piggie
and the gay mackeroo ♪

1094
01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:03,584
♪ But when he got off Pimlico
The wynds did begin to blow ♪

1095
01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:05,753
♪ And the little boat
wobble-wobbled so ♪

1096
01:06:05,795 --> 01:06:11,425
-♪ That overboard
went he singing ♪

1097
01:06:11,467 --> 01:06:14,887
♪ Twinky deedle dum ♪

1098
01:06:14,929 --> 01:06:17,014
♪ Twinky deedle dee ♪

1099
01:06:17,056 --> 01:06:22,311
♪ Was the highly interesting
song that he sung ♪

1100
01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:29,944
♪ Twinky deedle dum
Twinky deedle dee ♪

1101
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:36,158
♪ Bold fisherman ♪

1102
01:06:41,831 --> 01:06:44,125
Hemingway said that the sea

1103
01:06:44,166 --> 01:06:46,836
is the last free place
in the world,

1104
01:06:46,877 --> 01:06:49,213
and I respect it and love it.

1105
01:06:49,255 --> 01:06:51,090
The sea, the air.

1106
01:06:51,132 --> 01:06:52,800
It's clean and healthy,

1107
01:06:52,842 --> 01:06:56,679
and away from the Hollywood
gossip and leeches.

1108
01:06:56,721 --> 01:07:00,641
Ever since I was little,
I wanted to have my own boat.

1109
01:07:00,683 --> 01:07:03,686
I've realized that ambition
in the Santana,

1110
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:07,982
and you've no idea the
satisfaction I get out of that.

1111
01:07:08,024 --> 01:07:09,483
He'd never had children

1112
01:07:09,525 --> 01:07:12,194
and I really wanted him
to have children.

1113
01:07:12,236 --> 01:07:13,738
I don't know
whether he wanted them or not,

1114
01:07:13,779 --> 01:07:16,824
but he was going to have them,
I made up my mind.

1115
01:07:18,409 --> 01:07:20,244
He was afraid
that it would interfere

1116
01:07:20,286 --> 01:07:21,829
with our relationship.

1117
01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:23,581
And of course, in a way,
I suppose it does,

1118
01:07:23,622 --> 01:07:26,542
because children do take over,
don't they?

1119
01:07:32,715 --> 01:07:35,676
I was as frightened
as any stock expectant father

1120
01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:38,971
when I found out
she was gonna have Stephen.

1121
01:07:39,013 --> 01:07:43,768
After all, it was my first shot
at being a father at nearly 49.

1122
01:07:43,809 --> 01:07:47,688
I guess I was scared I wouldn't
know how to be a good father.

1123
01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:49,857
I don't know what
happened, but after I told him,

1124
01:07:49,899 --> 01:07:53,944
we had the biggest fight
we'd ever had.

1125
01:07:53,986 --> 01:07:56,447
The next morning,
Bogie wrote me a long letter

1126
01:07:56,489 --> 01:07:58,032
apologizing for his behavior,

1127
01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:00,034
saying he didn't know
what had gotten into him

1128
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:02,119
except his fear of losing me.

1129
01:08:02,161 --> 01:08:05,331
A child was an unknown quantity
to him.

1130
01:08:05,372 --> 01:08:08,209
He just would have to
get used to the idea.

1131
01:08:13,839 --> 01:08:19,887
I can't say
that I ever truly wanted
a child before I married Betty.

1132
01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:24,308
My life never seemed settled
enough to wish it on a minor.

1133
01:08:24,350 --> 01:08:26,852
But Betty wanted a child
very much,

1134
01:08:26,894 --> 01:08:30,106
and as she talked about it,
I did too.

1135
01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:33,943
I'm realistic enough
to be aware

1136
01:08:33,984 --> 01:08:38,405
that I shall probably leave
this sphere before she does.

1137
01:08:38,447 --> 01:08:39,907
I wanted a child, therefore,

1138
01:08:39,949 --> 01:08:43,536
to stay with her,
to remind her of me.

1139
01:08:46,413 --> 01:08:50,126
Meeting adjourned.
Have a frozen daiquiri.

1140
01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:57,758
I don't think I could live
just as a husband and father.

1141
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,135
I have to work.

1142
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:01,887
When I'm in town
and not working,

1143
01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:03,639
it's a pretty dull day.

1144
01:09:03,681 --> 01:09:05,766
For lunch, I'm at Romanoffs
for a couple of hours.

1145
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:09,770
I can meet my friends there.
It's kind of like a club.

1146
01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:13,858
He would come in
every morning before noon.

1147
01:09:13,899 --> 01:09:16,110
Was he one of
the first people to show up?

1148
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:17,695
Always the first.

1149
01:09:17,736 --> 01:09:20,656
But he would go first
to the bar, get his drink.

1150
01:09:20,698 --> 01:09:23,367
Then he'd go back to his table,
and then he would wait

1151
01:09:23,409 --> 01:09:25,202
for whoever would show up.

1152
01:09:25,244 --> 01:09:28,831
As a matter of fact, they put
a plaque up behind the booth

1153
01:09:28,873 --> 01:09:32,126
with the names
of who belongs to this club

1154
01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:33,752
that can sit at this table.

1155
01:09:33,794 --> 01:09:35,921
Now, did Betty
come ever with him

1156
01:09:35,963 --> 01:09:37,464
at that early hour?

1157
01:09:37,506 --> 01:09:40,634
No.
She would join him later.

1158
01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:42,928
When Betty was with him,

1159
01:09:42,970 --> 01:09:46,098
was it a different atmosphere
at the table?

1160
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:48,893
No, she held her own.

1161
01:09:48,934 --> 01:09:51,896
-Go get yourself a drink
and cool off.
-Okay.

1162
01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:57,443
I don't trust
any bastard who doesn't drink.

1163
01:09:57,484 --> 01:10:01,155
People who don't drink are
afraid of revealing themselves.

1164
01:10:01,197 --> 01:10:03,532
Here's happy days.

1165
01:10:11,832 --> 01:10:13,667
He was always
short-tempered,

1166
01:10:13,709 --> 01:10:16,045
but if you knew him,
you didn't believe it.

1167
01:10:16,086 --> 01:10:18,631
But he could have been
short-tempered to strangers.

1168
01:10:18,672 --> 01:10:22,259
The dividing line
was final and clear cut.

1169
01:10:22,301 --> 01:10:23,844
You knew where you stood

1170
01:10:23,886 --> 01:10:26,138
ten minutes after you met him,
you know.

1171
01:10:26,180 --> 01:10:28,682
That's right,
you either had a rapport,

1172
01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:31,477
and you either would
communicate and he liked you,

1173
01:10:31,518 --> 01:10:33,395
or he didn't like you.

1174
01:10:34,897 --> 01:10:36,565
He made perfectly sure
that you knew

1175
01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:38,234
he was going to be
an unpredictable man.

1176
01:10:38,275 --> 01:10:40,319
He didn't walk round
with a chip on his shoulder.

1177
01:10:40,361 --> 01:10:45,449
He carried the chip in his hand
and made sure you knew he had it

1178
01:10:45,491 --> 01:10:47,493
and was going to put it
on his shoulder any minute.

1179
01:10:47,534 --> 01:10:51,914
He was a searcher for the...
the weakness in a person.

1180
01:10:51,956 --> 01:10:55,793
He loved to goad and, uh...

1181
01:10:55,834 --> 01:10:59,964
He would call it teasing.
It was really testing.

1182
01:11:00,005 --> 01:11:03,717
He loved to find
where he could jab

1183
01:11:03,759 --> 01:11:06,720
a sensitive part of a person,

1184
01:11:06,762 --> 01:11:09,223
and he was a master
at finding it.

1185
01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:12,184
There were times
when he would pick on people

1186
01:11:12,226 --> 01:11:16,397
for no reason whatsoever,
usually brought on by drink.

1187
01:11:16,438 --> 01:11:19,608
But on occasion
he would go after somebody

1188
01:11:19,650 --> 01:11:23,279
who had no defenses and who
really shouldn't be picked on.

1189
01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:29,410
During the last
ten years of his life,

1190
01:11:29,451 --> 01:11:32,663
driven by
his ferocious ambition,

1191
01:11:32,705 --> 01:11:34,415
Humphrey Bogart allowed himself

1192
01:11:34,456 --> 01:11:36,750
to be presented
to the world by journalists

1193
01:11:36,792 --> 01:11:38,711
as a coarse and drunken bully.

1194
01:11:38,752 --> 01:11:41,797
Just stop! You'll kill him!

1195
01:11:43,507 --> 01:11:47,094
However, he played one
fascinatingly complex character

1196
01:11:47,136 --> 01:11:49,638
in a film whose title
perfectly defined

1197
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,225
Bogart's own isolation
amongst people,

1198
01:11:53,267 --> 01:11:55,686
"In a Lonely Place."

1199
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:59,690
There's a cancellation
on flight 16 for New York.

1200
01:11:59,732 --> 01:12:02,067
I'll stay with you, Dix.
I promise I'll stay with you.

1201
01:12:02,109 --> 01:12:04,611
I love you, Dix. I'll marry you.
I'll go away with you!

1202
01:12:04,653 --> 01:12:06,196
You'll run away from me
the first chance you get!

1203
01:12:06,238 --> 01:12:08,907
Don't act like this, Dix.
I can't live with a maniac!

1204
01:12:08,949 --> 01:12:10,784
I'll never let you go.

1205
01:12:10,826 --> 01:12:15,289
Dix, don't! Don't! Dix, please!

1206
01:12:15,331 --> 01:12:17,791
Don't, Dix, please! Don't!

1207
01:12:17,833 --> 01:12:21,587
It gave him a role that
he could play with complexity,

1208
01:12:21,628 --> 01:12:24,465
because the film character's
pride in his art,

1209
01:12:24,506 --> 01:12:26,967
his selfishness,
his drunkenness,

1210
01:12:27,009 --> 01:12:31,221
his lack of energy stabbed with
lightning strokes of violence,

1211
01:12:31,263 --> 01:12:33,223
were shared by the real Bogart.

1212
01:12:46,070 --> 01:12:48,614
We have a comfortable home,
a wonderful son,

1213
01:12:48,655 --> 01:12:51,825
a boat, and nice friends.

1214
01:12:51,867 --> 01:12:54,495
I hate like the devil
to take Betty away from our son

1215
01:12:54,536 --> 01:12:56,455
for such a long time.

1216
01:12:56,497 --> 01:12:57,998
The kid's only two,

1217
01:12:58,040 --> 01:12:59,833
and we're gonna be away
at least six months.

1218
01:12:59,875 --> 01:13:02,294
But I can't see it
any other way.

1219
01:13:02,336 --> 01:13:05,839
My other marriages broke up
on account of separations.

1220
01:13:05,881 --> 01:13:08,550
So wherever I go, she goes.

1221
01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:12,012
I had agreed with him,
I made a pact with him,

1222
01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:16,350
I would always put my marriage
first, and I did.

1223
01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:20,479
I... I... I kept to that pact.

1224
01:13:22,314 --> 01:13:26,193
When my mother and father left
to go to "African Queen,"

1225
01:13:26,235 --> 01:13:28,904
Mrs. Hartley,
my nurse at the time,

1226
01:13:28,946 --> 01:13:33,117
brought us down to the airport
to see them off.

1227
01:13:33,158 --> 01:13:37,996
And they take off, get up in
the air, and she drops dead.

1228
01:13:38,038 --> 01:13:40,916
She literally drops dead
with me in her arms.

1229
01:13:40,958 --> 01:13:43,377
And the doctor calls her
and said,

1230
01:13:43,419 --> 01:13:47,548
"The nurse has died.
What do you wanna do?"

1231
01:13:47,589 --> 01:13:49,216
And that's when my mother said,

1232
01:13:49,258 --> 01:13:51,885
"Well, do I wanna go to Africa
with John Huston,

1233
01:13:51,927 --> 01:13:53,554
make a movie
with Katharine Hepburn

1234
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:55,347
and have the most exciting time
of my life,

1235
01:13:55,389 --> 01:13:59,143
or do I wanna go home and
take care of the two-year-old?"

1236
01:14:01,603 --> 01:14:04,064
I understand this is
your first trip to Paris.

1237
01:14:04,106 --> 01:14:06,233
-Absolutely.
-And I bet you're excited.

1238
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:07,568
And I can't wait to get there.

1239
01:14:07,609 --> 01:14:09,403
-The French capital.
-Yes.

1240
01:14:09,445 --> 01:14:10,863
It's always been
very glamorous to me,

1241
01:14:10,904 --> 01:14:12,990
and I've always loved
the French language.

1242
01:14:13,031 --> 01:14:15,909
And what about
the high spot of this trip?
What are you going to see?

1243
01:14:15,951 --> 01:14:19,121
The Folies Bergère,
the style salons or what?

1244
01:14:19,163 --> 01:14:21,623
For me?
Well, as it is for most women,

1245
01:14:21,665 --> 01:14:24,168
I think they're
pretty interested in fashion.

1246
01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:49,234
Bogie was saying, "You know
what I like about Paris?"

1247
01:14:49,276 --> 01:14:51,945
He says, "They don't bother you
over here."

1248
01:14:51,987 --> 01:14:55,324
He says, "You're a movie star.
So what? They ignore ya."

1249
01:14:55,365 --> 01:14:58,076
And we were in a car then,
and we stopped for a red light,

1250
01:14:58,118 --> 01:14:59,995
and this little Frenchman
with a beret looked in,

1251
01:15:00,037 --> 01:15:02,122
and he saw
and he recognized Bogart,

1252
01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:05,834
and he went up to the window
and he went "Bang, bang!"

1253
01:15:13,342 --> 01:15:15,177
How about the new picture?

1254
01:15:15,219 --> 01:15:18,013
You're going over to the deep,
dark continent to make it.

1255
01:15:18,055 --> 01:15:19,973
Yes, we're going over to Africa,
probably down

1256
01:15:20,015 --> 01:15:23,018
around Nairobi
and Northern Rhodesia.

1257
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,062
Incidentally, we just found out
it was raining there,

1258
01:15:25,103 --> 01:15:28,565
so we may have to shoot it
in Scotland, I don't know.

1259
01:15:30,317 --> 01:15:33,737
Ah, it's a great thing to have
a lady aboard with clean habits.

1260
01:15:33,779 --> 01:15:35,697
Set the man a good example.

1261
01:15:35,739 --> 01:15:39,576
A man alone, he...
he gets to living like a hog.

1262
01:15:41,370 --> 01:15:44,498
I was wildly excited, but Bogie
knew that John would find

1263
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:47,793
the most inaccessible spot
in Africa as a location,

1264
01:15:47,834 --> 01:15:49,962
and he dreaded it.

1265
01:15:50,003 --> 01:15:52,005
He liked his life as it was.

1266
01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:55,425
Going to New York was all
the traveling he wanted to do.

1267
01:15:55,467 --> 01:15:58,637
The only thing I hated
was leaving Steve.

1268
01:16:00,097 --> 01:16:03,183
Bogart didn't like
any part of it.

1269
01:16:03,225 --> 01:16:07,271
He was against it
from the word go.

1270
01:16:07,312 --> 01:16:09,690
He cursed me
for taking him places

1271
01:16:09,731 --> 01:16:12,234
and said he wouldn't go
for anybody else.

1272
01:16:12,276 --> 01:16:14,736
And maybe
there was something to that.

1273
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,794
John Huston
wanted everything perfect.

1274
01:16:30,836 --> 01:16:33,380
If he saw a nice close mountain
to photograph,

1275
01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:34,881
that mountain was no good.

1276
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:36,717
If we could get
to a location site

1277
01:16:36,758 --> 01:16:38,844
without fording
a couple of streams,

1278
01:16:38,885 --> 01:16:41,013
walking through
a nest of rattlesnakes

1279
01:16:41,054 --> 01:16:42,723
and scorching in the sun,

1280
01:16:42,764 --> 01:16:45,058
then he said
it wasn't quite right.

1281
01:16:45,100 --> 01:16:48,228
We called him
"Hard Way Huston."

1282
01:16:49,438 --> 01:16:50,939
The food was so awful,

1283
01:16:50,981 --> 01:16:53,317
we had to drink Scotch
most of the time.

1284
01:16:53,358 --> 01:16:58,238
And Katie kept saying,
"Wouldn't it be marvelous if
we could stay here forever?"

1285
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:02,909
Whenever a fly bit
Huston or me, it dropped dead.

1286
01:17:02,951 --> 01:17:04,953
I built a solid wall of whiskey

1287
01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:06,663
between me and the bugs.

1288
01:17:06,705 --> 01:17:08,957
She doesn't drink,
and she breezes through it all

1289
01:17:08,999 --> 01:17:12,586
as though it were
a weekend in Connecticut.

1290
01:17:12,628 --> 01:17:17,215
Oh, miss. Oh, have pity, miss.

1291
01:17:20,677 --> 01:17:24,723
Could you have happily married
Humphrey Bogart?

1292
01:17:24,765 --> 01:17:26,600
It never occurred to me.

1293
01:17:26,642 --> 01:17:28,477
Was he a funny man
to be around?

1294
01:17:28,518 --> 01:17:30,145
Light-hearted? Serious?

1295
01:17:30,187 --> 01:17:33,940
Uh, he was serious.
He was enormously fair.

1296
01:17:33,982 --> 01:17:37,194
He was very much of a gent,
very well born.

1297
01:17:37,235 --> 01:17:39,696
-Frightfully good manners.
-Not a tough guy?

1298
01:17:39,738 --> 01:17:42,282
Not at all. The exact opposite.

1299
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:45,369
What you being
so mean for, miss?

1300
01:17:45,410 --> 01:17:47,704
A man takes a drop too much
once in a while,

1301
01:17:47,746 --> 01:17:50,457
it's only human nature.

1302
01:17:50,499 --> 01:17:55,671
Nature, Mr. Allnutt, is what
we are put in this world
to rise above.

1303
01:17:56,546 --> 01:17:57,881
Miss...

1304
01:17:58,965 --> 01:18:02,469
I'm sorry. I apologize.

1305
01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:06,682
What more can a man do
than say sorry, huh?

1306
01:18:13,855 --> 01:18:16,274
Such a waste.

1307
01:18:22,197 --> 01:18:25,325
Each of Humphrey's wives
was fittingly chosen

1308
01:18:25,367 --> 01:18:28,578
to accord with the progress
of his career.

1309
01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:32,916
When he began to act
and had so much to learn
about the theater,

1310
01:18:32,958 --> 01:18:35,252
he married Helen Menken.

1311
01:18:35,293 --> 01:18:37,796
Mary Philips
was exactly right for him

1312
01:18:37,838 --> 01:18:43,260
during the time he required
comfort more than inspiration.

1313
01:18:43,301 --> 01:18:47,556
But no one contributed so much
to Humphrey's success

1314
01:18:47,597 --> 01:18:51,685
as his third wife, Mayo Methot.

1315
01:18:51,727 --> 01:18:55,021
He found her at a time
of lethargy and loneliness,

1316
01:18:55,063 --> 01:19:00,110
when he might have gone
on playing secondary
gangster parts at Warner Bros.

1317
01:19:00,152 --> 01:19:04,197
He met Mayo,
and she set fire to him,

1318
01:19:04,239 --> 01:19:09,202
and blew the lid off
all his inhibitions, forever.

1319
01:19:16,835 --> 01:19:19,337
Hollywood turns out
for the Oscar Awards

1320
01:19:19,379 --> 01:19:22,716
by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences.

1321
01:19:22,758 --> 01:19:24,843
The night is bright with stars.

1322
01:19:24,885 --> 01:19:28,013
I said,
"Well, I got a speech for you.
Will you say it?"

1323
01:19:28,054 --> 01:19:30,599
He said, "Yes, I'll say it.
What is it?"

1324
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:35,270
"When they call your name
and you walk up
and you get the Oscar,

1325
01:19:35,312 --> 01:19:39,232
look at the audience
very dramatically
for about five seconds,

1326
01:19:39,274 --> 01:19:43,779
and then say, 'Well, it's about
time.'" But he didn't.

1327
01:19:43,820 --> 01:19:49,701
-The winner is Humphrey Bogart
in The African Queen.

1328
01:19:49,743 --> 01:19:54,915
It's a very long way from
the heart of the Belgian Congo

1329
01:19:54,956 --> 01:19:58,335
to the stage
of the Pantages Theatre,

1330
01:19:58,376 --> 01:20:01,463
and I'm very glad to say
that it's a little nicer here

1331
01:20:01,505 --> 01:20:03,256
than it was there.

1332
01:20:03,298 --> 01:20:07,010
I, uh...
I just want to pay a slight,

1333
01:20:07,052 --> 01:20:09,262
as a matter of fact,
a very big tribute,

1334
01:20:09,304 --> 01:20:14,142
to Mr. John Huston
and Miss Katharine Hepburn,

1335
01:20:14,184 --> 01:20:16,770
because they helped me
to be where I am now.

1336
01:20:16,812 --> 01:20:18,814
Thank you very much.

1337
01:20:20,690 --> 01:20:22,859
Acting is a nice racket.

1338
01:20:22,901 --> 01:20:26,780
The words "movie star" are so
misused, they have no meaning.

1339
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:30,367
The studios can make anyone
a star if they get behind them.

1340
01:20:30,408 --> 01:20:32,285
That's why I don't kid myself,

1341
01:20:32,327 --> 01:20:36,998
why I can't take myself
or the business seriously.

1342
01:20:40,043 --> 01:20:42,796
1952 found me
pregnant again.

1343
01:20:42,838 --> 01:20:45,549
We didn't have room for the new
baby in Benedict Canyon.

1344
01:20:45,590 --> 01:20:47,634
So as Bogie threw his hands
in the air, I went hunting

1345
01:20:47,676 --> 01:20:51,513
and fell in love
with the most beautiful house.

1346
01:21:18,039 --> 01:21:21,167
At Warners I had
one of the biggest contracts,

1347
01:21:21,209 --> 01:21:26,256
but it was restrictive,
and I thought I'd do better
on the outside.

1348
01:21:26,298 --> 01:21:31,177
I finally left. You never saw a
guy so happy to get rid of me.

1349
01:21:31,219 --> 01:21:34,264
The whole studio
system, and the constraints,

1350
01:21:34,306 --> 01:21:39,519
were part and parcel
of why he started
his own production company,

1351
01:21:39,561 --> 01:21:41,521
Santana Productions.

1352
01:21:41,563 --> 01:21:44,858
Almost no one had
their own production companies.

1353
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:47,360
My father was one of the first.

1354
01:21:47,402 --> 01:21:49,279
It's your move.

1355
01:21:49,321 --> 01:21:51,573
I had some
wonderful years at Warners.

1356
01:21:51,615 --> 01:21:54,075
I realized
they were largely responsible

1357
01:21:54,117 --> 01:21:56,786
for what was to follow
in my career.

1358
01:21:56,828 --> 01:21:58,538
I miss my battles with Jack.

1359
01:21:58,580 --> 01:22:02,918
No one ever gave me
such good insults as he did.

1360
01:22:04,169 --> 01:22:07,297
1953 was
a very good year for us.

1361
01:22:07,339 --> 01:22:10,592
Bogie worked continually
and in good films.

1362
01:22:10,634 --> 01:22:13,762
I had gone back to work,
after three years, in a movie.

1363
01:22:13,803 --> 01:22:16,723
The film was titled
"How to Marry a Millionaire."

1364
01:22:16,765 --> 01:22:20,018
At the same time,
Bogie would be in Italy
for "Beat The Devil."

1365
01:22:20,060 --> 01:22:23,980
It would be
our first separation
in eight years of marriage.

1366
01:22:27,108 --> 01:22:30,278
We had no script
when Bogie arrived.

1367
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:33,156
A very poor semblance
of a script.

1368
01:22:33,198 --> 01:22:35,241
In heaven's name, Billy,
say something.

1369
01:22:35,283 --> 01:22:37,077
I said, "Bogie, Jesus,

1370
01:22:37,118 --> 01:22:39,829
we may be making a big mistake
in going ahead with this."

1371
01:22:39,871 --> 01:22:43,667
And there was an opportunity
to cut our losses

1372
01:22:43,708 --> 01:22:45,377
and get out of the whole thing.

1373
01:22:45,418 --> 01:22:47,671
It was Bogie's company,
and for this reason,

1374
01:22:47,712 --> 01:22:50,256
I felt doubly responsible.

1375
01:22:50,298 --> 01:22:53,301
Bogie said,
"Why, John, it's only money."

1376
01:23:00,141 --> 01:23:01,768
Huston had an idea.

1377
01:23:01,810 --> 01:23:04,312
"Instead of trying
to do 'Casablanca'

1378
01:23:04,354 --> 01:23:05,939
or 'Falcon' over again,

1379
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:08,608
we'll get Truman Capote
to write the screenplay

1380
01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:12,487
and make it a human picture
with lots of heart and humor."

1381
01:23:12,529 --> 01:23:15,115
Truman wrote like fury,
had the darndest

1382
01:23:15,156 --> 01:23:19,744
and most upside-down slant
on humor you'd ever heard.

1383
01:23:19,786 --> 01:23:21,913
If I loved you a thousand times
more than you say you love me,

1384
01:23:21,955 --> 01:23:24,416
it still wouldn't make
any difference.
I've got to have money.

1385
01:23:24,457 --> 01:23:26,459
Doctor's orders are
that I must have a lot of money.

1386
01:23:26,501 --> 01:23:28,503
Otherwise I become
dull, listless

1387
01:23:28,545 --> 01:23:30,380
and have trouble
with my complexion.

1388
01:23:30,422 --> 01:23:32,382
But you're not like that now
and you haven't any money.

1389
01:23:32,424 --> 01:23:35,260
It's my expectations
that hold me together.

1390
01:23:39,264 --> 01:23:42,726
-Driver. Driver!
When "Beat
The Devil" was first released,

1391
01:23:42,767 --> 01:23:44,644
and when the studios
got a look at it,

1392
01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:46,688
did they say, "What is this
supposed to be about?"

1393
01:23:46,730 --> 01:23:48,440
They certainly did,
and so did the audiences

1394
01:23:48,481 --> 01:23:50,692
and the critics
and everybody else.

1395
01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:52,986
And when did they begin
to realize that it was funny?

1396
01:23:53,028 --> 01:23:56,531
It took three or four years
for it to begin to catch on.

1397
01:23:56,573 --> 01:24:01,619
And then, as you said,
it slowly grew into that...
into a cult image.

1398
01:24:01,661 --> 01:24:04,289
Yeah. How did
Bogart and Capote get along?

1399
01:24:04,330 --> 01:24:09,419
They got along famously,
until I remember one night
they began to wrestle.

1400
01:24:09,461 --> 01:24:13,339
And, um,
quite surprisingly, Truman,

1401
01:24:13,381 --> 01:24:15,967
who's a little bulldog,
by the way,

1402
01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:19,596
pinned Bogie's shoulders
to the floor.

1403
01:24:47,791 --> 01:24:51,503
Bogie and I formed a
group known as the Rat Pack.

1404
01:24:51,544 --> 01:24:54,714
In order to qualify, one had to
be addicted to non-conformity:

1405
01:24:54,756 --> 01:24:56,716
staying up late,
drinking, laughing,

1406
01:24:56,758 --> 01:25:00,136
and not caring what anyone
thought or said about us.

1407
01:25:04,557 --> 01:25:08,520
I've worked all my life
and I've had the applause.

1408
01:25:08,561 --> 01:25:11,189
I'll be damned if I know
why I work so hard.

1409
01:25:11,231 --> 01:25:15,944
Work is therapy, I guess.
It keeps me on the wagon.

1410
01:25:15,985 --> 01:25:19,489
I've said I'd like
to make enough money to retire
and that's all.

1411
01:25:19,531 --> 01:25:24,035
But I suppose I wouldn't
be happy doing nothing.

1412
01:25:24,953 --> 01:25:27,497
In "The Caine Mutiny,"
I play Queeg,

1413
01:25:27,539 --> 01:25:29,332
a man who was given a command

1414
01:25:29,374 --> 01:25:31,417
and was unable
to accept the responsibility.

1415
01:25:31,459 --> 01:25:34,003
Good afternoon, gentlemen.

1416
01:25:34,045 --> 01:25:38,758
I liked Captain
Queeg. I felt I understood him.

1417
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:44,764
Naturally, I... I can only cover
these things from memory.

1418
01:25:44,806 --> 01:25:49,936
If I've left anything out, why,
just ask me specific questions,

1419
01:25:49,978 --> 01:25:56,609
and... I'll be glad
to answer them one by one.

1420
01:25:56,651 --> 01:25:59,779
Queeg was not
crazy. He was sick.

1421
01:25:59,821 --> 01:26:01,698
I don't know
whether he was schizophrenic,

1422
01:26:01,739 --> 01:26:04,284
a manic depressive
or a paranoiac.

1423
01:26:04,325 --> 01:26:06,161
Ask a psychiatrist.

1424
01:26:06,202 --> 01:26:09,581
But I do know that a person
that has any of those things

1425
01:26:09,622 --> 01:26:11,791
works overtime at being normal.

1426
01:26:11,833 --> 01:26:15,753
In fact, he's supernormal
until he's pressured.

1427
01:26:15,795 --> 01:26:18,590
Then he blows up.

1428
01:26:18,631 --> 01:26:23,178
I personally know a Queeg
in every studio in Hollywood.

1429
01:26:25,763 --> 01:26:30,476
And now I know
that you're as anxious as I am
to find out what actor

1430
01:26:30,518 --> 01:26:34,606
has won the Oscar for the best
performance of this year.

1431
01:26:34,647 --> 01:26:40,153
The winner is Marlon Brando
for On The Waterfront.

1432
01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:44,324
I came out here
with one suit, and everybody
thought I was a bum.

1433
01:26:44,365 --> 01:26:49,579
When Brando came out
with one sweatshirt,
the town drooled over him.

1434
01:26:49,621 --> 01:26:53,333
These actor studio types,
they mumble their lines.

1435
01:26:53,374 --> 01:26:55,001
I can't hear their words.

1436
01:26:55,043 --> 01:26:59,297
Why the hell don't they learn
to speak properly?

1437
01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:04,260
This "scratch your ass
and mumble" school of acting
doesn't please me.

1438
01:27:04,302 --> 01:27:08,389
It's much heavier
than I imagined.

1439
01:27:19,192 --> 01:27:23,738
I'm no longer
the flaming youth.
I have responsibilities.

1440
01:27:23,780 --> 01:27:26,032
I'm a married man
with two children,

1441
01:27:26,074 --> 01:27:28,868
and my wife is a very steadying
influence on me.

1442
01:27:28,910 --> 01:27:32,247
I don't think
I'm Bogart anymore.

1443
01:27:32,288 --> 01:27:34,165
-Oh, there you are.
-And here's Leslie.

1444
01:27:34,207 --> 01:27:37,210
I'm probably
not a very good father.

1445
01:27:37,252 --> 01:27:39,254
It came a little late in life.

1446
01:27:39,295 --> 01:27:40,797
I don't understand them,

1447
01:27:40,838 --> 01:27:43,132
and I think
they don't understand me.

1448
01:27:43,174 --> 01:27:47,887
And all I can say is
thank God for Betty.

1449
01:27:47,929 --> 01:27:52,016
I don't think he really liked
being the father of a baby,

1450
01:27:52,058 --> 01:27:53,893
but I think as we got older,

1451
01:27:53,935 --> 01:27:58,439
we really would have gotten
into a groove with each other.

1452
01:28:00,191 --> 01:28:03,194
I think he would have been
a really good father,

1453
01:28:03,236 --> 01:28:05,905
and that's not to say he wasn't
when I was growing up.

1454
01:28:05,947 --> 01:28:09,284
He was just
kind of standoffish.

1455
01:28:39,147 --> 01:28:41,566
1956 was to be the year
that Bogie and I

1456
01:28:41,607 --> 01:28:43,109
were to make
our first film together

1457
01:28:43,151 --> 01:28:45,737
since "Key Largo"
eight years before.

1458
01:28:50,074 --> 01:28:51,909
We were both
looking forward to it.

1459
01:28:51,951 --> 01:28:54,162
We'd been married
ten and a half years by then.

1460
01:28:54,203 --> 01:28:56,831
Life seemed very good indeed.

1461
01:29:05,506 --> 01:29:06,841
Bogie came home one day
and told me

1462
01:29:06,883 --> 01:29:09,010
he'd run into Greer Garson
at lunch.

1463
01:29:09,052 --> 01:29:11,137
Greer had said
she didn't like his cough

1464
01:29:11,179 --> 01:29:14,140
and that he must go to see Dr.
Maynard Brandsma, her doctor,

1465
01:29:14,182 --> 01:29:16,768
an internist
at the Beverly Hills Clinic.

1466
01:29:16,809 --> 01:29:20,271
She actually dragged him there
for an examination.

1467
01:29:41,376 --> 01:29:43,503
Bogie asked
if it couldn't be postponed

1468
01:29:43,544 --> 01:29:45,004
until after the movie
was completed.

1469
01:29:45,046 --> 01:29:47,173
We were to start
in a week or so.

1470
01:29:47,215 --> 01:29:49,967
"Not unless you want a lot
of flowers at Forest Lawn,"

1471
01:29:50,009 --> 01:29:51,928
said Dr. Brandsma.

1472
01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:24,919
I haven't been going out.

1473
01:30:24,961 --> 01:30:28,339
I'm supposed to sit here
and keep quiet.

1474
01:30:28,381 --> 01:30:30,633
I feel tired all the time.

1475
01:30:30,675 --> 01:30:33,302
I don't seem to have
any pep anymore.

1476
01:30:33,344 --> 01:30:36,681
Old age is catching up
with me, I guess.

1477
01:30:56,742 --> 01:30:59,495
So the words
were spoken at last.

1478
01:30:59,537 --> 01:31:02,874
"It doesn't look too good."

1479
01:31:02,915 --> 01:31:06,085
I could not think
in terms of Bogie not living.

1480
01:31:06,127 --> 01:31:08,838
It was just
totally unacceptable.

1481
01:31:10,381 --> 01:31:13,009
A man's illness
is his private territory,

1482
01:31:13,050 --> 01:31:16,846
and no matter how much he loves
you and how close you are,

1483
01:31:16,888 --> 01:31:19,015
you stay an outsider.

1484
01:31:23,853 --> 01:31:25,980
I have been
greatly disturbed lately

1485
01:31:26,022 --> 01:31:28,691
at the many unchecked
and baseless rumors

1486
01:31:28,733 --> 01:31:30,151
being tossed among you

1487
01:31:30,193 --> 01:31:32,028
regarding the state
of my health.

1488
01:31:32,069 --> 01:31:35,072
I have read that both lungs
have been removed,

1489
01:31:35,114 --> 01:31:37,617
that I couldn't live
for another half hour,

1490
01:31:37,658 --> 01:31:39,702
that I was fighting
for my life,

1491
01:31:39,744 --> 01:31:41,204
that my heart has been removed

1492
01:31:41,245 --> 01:31:44,081
and replaced
with an old gasoline pump.

1493
01:31:44,123 --> 01:31:46,834
I'm a better man
than I ever was,

1494
01:31:46,876 --> 01:31:49,962
and all I need now
is about 30 pounds in weight,

1495
01:31:50,004 --> 01:31:52,131
which I'm sure
some of you could spare.

1496
01:31:52,173 --> 01:31:54,091
And believe me,
I'm not particular

1497
01:31:54,133 --> 01:31:57,887
which portion of your anatomies
it comes from.

1498
01:32:03,726 --> 01:32:07,313
For a couple of weeks,
our life was almost normal.

1499
01:32:07,355 --> 01:32:12,026
Leslie had her fourth
birthday party out of doors.

1500
01:32:12,068 --> 01:32:13,986
We spent Labor Day weekend
on the Santana

1501
01:32:14,028 --> 01:32:17,031
and had a quiet, happy time
in Catalina.

1502
01:33:00,116 --> 01:33:03,369
I think the clearest
memory I have of my father

1503
01:33:03,411 --> 01:33:05,413
is being on the boat.

1504
01:33:05,454 --> 01:33:08,457
I can see him laughing.

1505
01:33:08,499 --> 01:33:12,211
My father loved the water
as much as he loved anything.

1506
01:33:12,253 --> 01:33:16,549
It was his solace,
the way he rejuvenated himself.

1507
01:33:16,591 --> 01:33:20,678
That was where he liked to be
more than anything else.

1508
01:33:26,267 --> 01:33:30,062
I went upstairs, and
his valet was dressing Bogart,

1509
01:33:30,104 --> 01:33:32,732
who was lying
in the big double bed,

1510
01:33:32,773 --> 01:33:34,734
and he put
Bogart's trousers on,

1511
01:33:34,775 --> 01:33:37,737
and then he put
a smoking jacket on.

1512
01:33:37,778 --> 01:33:43,659
And he was too weak
to even be lifted
down the stairs.

1513
01:33:43,701 --> 01:33:45,578
There was a dumbwaiter,

1514
01:33:45,620 --> 01:33:48,706
and he used to crowd himself
into this dumbwaiter

1515
01:33:48,748 --> 01:33:51,834
and come down
to the first floor,

1516
01:33:51,876 --> 01:33:53,336
where he was then
put into a chair

1517
01:33:53,377 --> 01:33:56,255
and wheeled
into the drawing room.

1518
01:33:58,007 --> 01:34:00,801
It was a very social gathering,
and he would sit there like this

1519
01:34:00,843 --> 01:34:03,512
for an hour or two,
without really sipping,

1520
01:34:03,554 --> 01:34:07,058
'cause he didn't have
the strength to lift the glass
or light the cigarette.

1521
01:34:07,099 --> 01:34:10,478
I don't think any of us knew
until almost the very end

1522
01:34:10,519 --> 01:34:14,940
what tremendous courage it took
for Bogart to get there,
sit in that chair,

1523
01:34:14,982 --> 01:34:19,153
and for an hour
try to be a host.

1524
01:34:22,198 --> 01:34:26,619
That's the last picture
I have of Bogie.

1525
01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:32,792
Um... And quite in keeping
with... with the image that...

1526
01:34:34,251 --> 01:34:37,213
that I have of him altogether,
his whole life.

1527
01:34:44,220 --> 01:34:47,473
I remember him
coming down in the dumbwaiter
and being rolled out,

1528
01:34:47,515 --> 01:34:50,601
and, you know,
his friends would come in.

1529
01:34:50,643 --> 01:34:53,312
He didn't want us
to see him like that,

1530
01:34:53,354 --> 01:34:54,980
so we were not allowed

1531
01:34:55,022 --> 01:34:58,401
to really see him that much
during that year.

1532
01:35:00,945 --> 01:35:03,948
Spencer and I
went to the house,
we talked for a while,

1533
01:35:03,989 --> 01:35:06,992
and Bogie was entertaining
as always.

1534
01:35:07,034 --> 01:35:11,330
And he was sitting in a chair
in his bedroom,
sitting in a wheelchair.

1535
01:35:11,372 --> 01:35:16,168
And then we got up to go,
so as not to exhaust him.

1536
01:35:16,210 --> 01:35:22,341
And, uh, I kissed him goodbye,
walked over to the door,

1537
01:35:22,383 --> 01:35:27,012
and Spencer walked over
and patted his shoulder

1538
01:35:27,054 --> 01:35:31,308
and said, "We're on our way."

1539
01:35:31,350 --> 01:35:36,355
And Bogie reached up with
his hand, patted Spencer's hand,

1540
01:35:36,397 --> 01:35:42,403
looked at him and said,
"Goodbye, Spence."

1541
01:35:50,327 --> 01:35:53,330
Somewhere around midnight,
I kissed Bogie goodnight,

1542
01:35:53,372 --> 01:35:58,002
this time, for the first time
in eleven and a half years
of married life,

1543
01:35:58,043 --> 01:36:00,546
with no response from him.

1544
01:36:00,588 --> 01:36:04,884
I lay down on the bed,
and for the first time
in almost a year,

1545
01:36:04,925 --> 01:36:07,762
I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.

1546
01:36:35,623 --> 01:36:38,501
At no time during
the months of his illness

1547
01:36:38,542 --> 01:36:42,004
did he believe
he was going to die.

1548
01:36:42,046 --> 01:36:45,299
Not that he refused
to consider the thought.

1549
01:36:45,341 --> 01:36:48,385
It simply
never occurred to him.

1550
01:36:49,637 --> 01:36:53,599
Himself, he never took
too seriously.

1551
01:36:53,641 --> 01:36:57,603
His work, most seriously.

1552
01:36:57,645 --> 01:37:01,649
He regarded the somewhat
gaudy figure of Bogart the star

1553
01:37:01,690 --> 01:37:04,151
with an amused cynicism.

1554
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:09,406
Bogart, the actor,
he held in deep respect.

1555
01:37:10,199 --> 01:37:15,246
His life was a rich, full life.

1556
01:37:15,287 --> 01:37:20,042
We have no reason
to feel any sorrow for him,

1557
01:37:20,084 --> 01:37:23,838
only for ourselves
for having lost him.

1558
01:37:37,893 --> 01:37:43,983
I like people,
yachts, chess, politics.

1559
01:37:44,024 --> 01:37:45,985
A good drink.

1560
01:37:46,026 --> 01:37:49,321
A good wife. Nice kids.

1561
01:37:51,365 --> 01:37:52,658
I had those.

1562
01:37:55,119 --> 01:38:00,249
♪ Don't take him,
he's no good ♪

1563
01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:08,382
♪ Trust me, I'm better ♪

1564
01:38:10,509 --> 01:38:15,973
♪ He won't hate you
like I could ♪

1565
01:38:17,266 --> 01:38:21,353
♪ He's too lovely ♪

1566
01:38:44,418 --> 01:38:50,674
♪ Take me, I'm bad ♪

1567
01:38:52,384 --> 01:38:59,516
♪ Trust me, I'm unforgiven ♪

1568
01:38:59,558 --> 01:39:06,440
♪ He won't entertain you
like I would ♪

1569
01:39:07,399 --> 01:39:10,444
♪ He's too lovely ♪

1570
01:39:15,991 --> 01:39:19,995
♪ No, no, no, no ♪

1571
01:39:20,037 --> 01:39:25,459
♪ He's not the one you wanted ♪

1572
01:39:32,299 --> 01:39:36,470
♪ Take me, take me ♪

1573
01:39:39,306 --> 01:39:50,943
♪ Instead ♪