Humphrey Bogart Author:Nathanial Benchley Here is the book Bogart lovers have waited for - an affectionate, funny, always perceptive portrait of the society blue blood who played tough men with more style and panache than any other actor in Hollywood, before or since. — Written by Nathanial Benchley, the actor's close friends and frequent guest, Humphrey Bogart resolves the contradiction... more »s that have swirled around Bogart as densely as the fog at the end of Casablanca. He was pugnacious, a gentleman; a puritan who married four times; mean, generous; a thug, a romantic: Benchley's portrait shows how they all converged in the person of a complicated man, a dedicated professional, and a fabulous legend.
To complete Benchley's raffish yet sensitive chronicle of Bogart's career, some one hundred photographs have been assembled, many of them never before published, the best and most outrageously amusing of them garned from friends' private albums.« less