Bogart

Summary Ann Sperber and Eric Lax offer therevealing, intimate, definitive biography of the legendary Humphrey Bogart,detailing the arc and span of his personal and professional life—a story oftoil, tragedy, and triumph. Sperber and Lax explore Bogie’s abusive childhood and the three unsuccessful marriages that precededthe lasting love he found with Lauren Bacall, and plumb the depths of hisarduous career working as Warner Brothers’ go-to drudge actor for thirteenyears of B-list films before rising to stardom and ultimately achieving hisplace amongst Hollywood royalty. The Los Angeles Times calls Bogart "animmediate triumph . . . so rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, itis an absorbing human story of the motion picture business in the age of Humphrey Bogart."About the Author Ann M. Sperber is a writer, researcher and biographer whose works include Murrow: His Life and Times and Bogart, which she was working on at the time of her death. Sperber died in 1994. Product Details Paperback: 704 pages Publisher: It Books Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

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