- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane (27 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846140765
- ISBN-13: 978-1846140761
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 628,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.'
He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the rat pack and met four wives on set - including his great love, Lauren Bacall - yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of film's most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinema's greatest icon.
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David Thomson is, among many other things, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fourth edition. His recent books include a biography of Nicole Kidman, Fan Tan (a novel written in collaboration with Marlon Brando) and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. His latest work is the acclaimed Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. Born in London, he now lives in San Francisco.
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There are, at this writing, four titles in what, one would hope, will be an ongoing series from Thomson: Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Ingrid Bergman. This review will, if allowed, apply to all of them. As expected, Thomson gets to the heart of the appeal of each of these performer's and, succinctly and acutely (as ever) presents in each brief monograph a portrait of the star better than many a full-length biography. What one would like to know, is: Who chose these stars? Are there more to be added? If so, when? If not, why not? One cannot, for example, believe that Gary Cooper was one of Thomson's first choices, since he treats the performer (one hardly feels Thomson even wants to call him an actor) with something bordering on disdain; granting him his (few) choice roles, while implying that, if the casting couch didn't exist, Cooper would have invented it. One feels that, at the very least, Cary Grant or, even, in his own way, Bob Hope, might have appealed more to Thomson. The same applies, albeit to a lesser extant, to Ingrid Bergman (instead of Barbara Stanwyck, say, or EITHER Hepburn?) At any road: these are fine "brief lives" and, as with ANY work by Thomson, deserve to be in any film buff's library
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