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...moments, is generally a good deal higher, he maintains that his real commitment is to the legitimate theater. Even now, when he is filming a movie entitled The Last Run, about an over-the-hill hood ("I'm doing it because it reminds me of old Bogart pictures"), he is reading the script for Neil Simon's new play, God's Favorite, and eagerly blocking out his schedule so that he will be able to star in it come the fall...
...women, and images of women, have almost always dominated the product that emerged. The great mythic stars-those very useful icons that provide most of the depth of industry movies-are for the most part women. Big male stars (Gable and Bogart, Wayne, Cooper, and Grant) usually last longer in the front ranks, for all the obvious and repulsive reasons. But few of them ever provide the somewhat metaphysical definition of their movies: Bogart did-and Brando for a spell-and certainly John Wayne has defined the Western more than anyone, perhaps, except Ford and Hawks. Nevertheless, most great movie...
Just as the word casbah brings to mind Charles Boyer's sexily sinister invitation to accompany him there, the name Casablanca evokes the gravelly command of Humphrey Bogart: "Play it again, Sam." So it seemed like a good idea to Pan American Airways to advertise its flight to Casablanca with a movie still of the late Bogey and those immortal words. To his widow Lauren Bacall, though, it seemed like a lousy idea. "Is there no limit to what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart...
Harvey has complained that societies affiliated with Harvard Houses "show films for commercial purposes on tax-free property." Calling this "unfair competition," Harvey objects to societies that advertise in the Square or in newspapers, show popular, frequently seen movies such as those starring Humphrey Bogart, screen first-run films, or schedule movies at playing dates close to those Harvey has set for the same movies...
...says Arthur Miller. "In actuality, it was a terrible time." The opener was Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays. It is a plotless, proletarian slice-of-life drama, but Jacqueline Babbin's production was a model of intelligent TV adaptation, and Paul Bogart directed a first-rate cast headed by Estelle Parsons, Jack Warden, and George Grizzard...