The Affair That Destroyed Humphrey Bogart’s Marriage
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Humphrey Bogart is one of the most recognizable actors of classic Hollywood. His career had a shaky start, but after years of perseverance, he became a star that would burn for decades. He was part of the Rat Pack, which included other legends like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra. Nearly 50 years after his death, the American Film Institute named him the greatest male actor of classic American cinema in 1999.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - 1. A Rocky Start
01:59 - 2. Humphrey Bogart’s First Marriage
03:15 - 3. His Second Marriage
04:12 - 4. Humphrey Bogart’s Launch into Stardom
05:07 - 5. The Affair that Destroyed His Third Marriage
06:14 - 6. Humphrey Bogart’s Painful Final Years
07:18 - Outro
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He was launched into stardom after the 1941 films High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, and he soon became known for his ability to portray private detectives in noir films. Just a year later, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Casablanca. In 1951, he acted alongside Katherine Hepburn in the film African Queen and finally earned his Academy Award for Best Actor. Overall, his career spanned a total of 35 years, and he continued to act until his failing health forced him to retire.
On screen, Humphrey Bogart was calm, cool, and collected. To the outside eye, he lived a life of perfect success. But behind the scenes, he dealt with serious struggles. Four marriages, alcoholism, and a scandalous affair all contributed to a turbulent personal life. And while he may have been a handsome, popular actor during the height of his career, he was accused of domestic abuse during his marriages.
In today’s video, we’re going to take a look at Humphrey Bogart’s three disastrous marriages, as well as a scandalous affair that would end in both heartbreak and deep romance. Make sure you stick around because we’re also going to reveal how Humphrey Bogart’s first marriage to Helen Menken ended in success for Bogart and utter tragedy for his ex-wife. We hope you like this video, and don’t forget to subscribe to Facts Verse for more!
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I’ll put in a vote for Lauren Bacall (the years after Bogie) and one for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn
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I saw dozens of interviews with Bacall on her husband, (many with tears), as she explained her missing Boggy & their love was deep, the fact she stayed with him during the long awful illness that eventually killed him is further testimony of her devotion to him, he's also been seen to talk of Bacall with much love. their desire for each other even shows on the screen together.
I am sure they had issues like any marriage, but someone can have had several failed & bad marriages & finally step into an almost perfect one, as rare as it seems!
I truly believe Bogart & Bacall we're in love and had as good of a marriage as possible, the evidence shows, but no one can ever say 100%. One thing for sure was the chemistry onscreen between them was possibly the finest between a man and a woman in the golden era of Hollywood.
It was a sham marriage. Lauren Bacall was having an affair with Frank Sinatra the whole time Humphrey Bogart was sick and as soon as he died, Lauren wanted to marry Frank Sinatra immediately, but Frank called it off. During Humphrey's entire marriage to Lauren, he was seeing the same woman he had been having an affair with for many years named Verita Thompson.
I think from everything I have read that Bogart found true happiness with Lauren Bacall, and she in turn found true love and security with him. With their two children, Stephen and Leslie, they seemed to be a happy family. It seems that in this case the fourth marriage was the "charm."
It wasn't the charm. It was a sham marriage. Lauren Bacall was having an affair with Frank Sinatra and she immediately wanted to marry Frank as soon as Humphrey Bogart died, but Frank called it off. Humphrey Bogart was also having an affair with the same woman Verita Thompson, he'd been having an affair with for many years.
Humphrey Bogart is my favorite actor of all time! It seems to me that he and Lauren Bacall were a happy couple and he learned his past lessons. Plus she always seemed to have her act together. It's very sad that he was lost to her at such a young age, but it seems she was a pretty tough broad - and I think that's why he fell in love with her. He'll never be forgotten!
Humphrey was a impressive actor besides his failed marriages. That film Casablanca is a Classic!
Agreed. I purchased it on Amazon video many years ago -- so I didn't need to keep paying, to watch the film.🙂 (I can watch it anytime!)🎵🎵🎥
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@@Zeldarw104 ZELDA: There are many books about CASABLANCA, some including the entire script, that are superb for devotees. One has photos for every line spoken--an engrossing concept. Remember that Casey Robinson wrote the love story angles that drove the film, but got no name credit, but Julius and Phillip Epstein and Howard Koch won writing Oscars. Hats off to Hollywood, right?
I can't see Casablanca again .. I'll fall in love 💕 with Bogart
His first wife sounds interesting. Daughter of two deaf parents - she had to teach herself how to speak! Then she chooses to be an actress! Wow.
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Yes, she sounds very interesting to me also, self motivated and accomplished!
I really do feel sad that Humphrey had to endure the last few years in such pain
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@Angela Holmes Humphrey got there from heavy drinking and smoking.
@@papa6bell so to hell with any compassion huh?
Actually.... Leslie Howard and Bogart played the Petrified Forest on stage. When the movie rights were bought and Leslie Howard got the lead in the movie they wanted someone else to play Bogarts part. Howard refused to make the movie without Bogart and so it happened the studio caved to the demand of Leslie Howard... Humphrey Bogart became a sex symbol when he played Rick in Casablanca LOL He was 44 years old and believed it to be ridiculous. :-)
"Here's looking at YOU kid"...still brings tears to my eyes....Casablanca BEST movie ever!!!.
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Not even Bogart’s best film that decade
Why anyone would want their romantic interest to call them kid I will never understand…
Bogie had a long time secret lover, Verita Thompson his Tuopee maker (yes he wore one) as she was also a hair dresser to the stars of Hollywood, she gifted him a Gold Gruen watch which was inscribed: To Bogie, Love Vera. They met at the wrap party for Casablaca in 1942 and stayed lovers all through his marriage to Bacall untill his death in 1957, the book "Bogie and Me" was written about this secret love.
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@Light Racer - You are exactly right! It's a lesser known fact about Bogie's life, and some feel it somewhat tarnishes his reputation (which wasn't that great to begin with - lol). I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Bogie and Me", also.
I'm surprised this video didn't mention Verita Thompson or Frank Sinatra. In her memoir, Thompson seemed to think, with good reason, that as Bogart's marriage to Mayo Methot disintegrated, he would marry her. Bacall comes off as a late dark horse entry who slithered across the finish line first. Thompson's marriage to a service man broke up because he came home by surprise and caught Verita and Bogie taking a shower together. Warner Brothers had to help cover that up, probably paying off the husband to go quietly.
full of bull. Just because she said it does not mean it's true. stop spreading un provable rumors. I don't believe a word Verita said. Neither did Bacall
@@Nordic1972 prove he didn’t then ?
Bogie and Bacall are one of those perfect Hollywood fantasies celebrity couples that many people falsely indulge in because if you truly are in love with someone, you never cheat on them.
I am a huge fan of Bogie's. After all of the books I have read on them, I have no doubt there was much love between them. He was much older with older values yet she was a young and strong woman. I am sure they had an interesting marriage!
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She was going to leave Bogart for frank Sinatra. He didn't want her.
If I would buy just one book on Bogie, which would you recommend?
Lauren Bacall had too much respect and loyalty towards Bogart to have strayed from him during their marriage. The romance with Frank Sinatra began after Bogart's death, and he was overheard proposing to her at a restaurant in Hollywood. Betty admitted to Louella Parsons that she had said yes to his proposal, however, once the press became involved, Sinatra left Hollywood, seems he was having second thoughts about his proposal!
Humphrey Bogart was one of those great and mysterious actor changing his acting like the african queen..
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Bogie was the founder of the original Rat Pack and Bacall was crowned its Den Mother.
The both were madly in love with each other simple you can see the chemistry on screen between the two of them
Lauren Bacall was sleeping with Frank Sinatra during most of the marriage. They even went public with their relationship they day after he died
That's not true...
Actually no.
Actually, during Bogies illness they were. After his death they were together and were scheduled to get married but Sinatra blamed Bacall for telling the press about the upcoming marriage. He broke it off and they didn’t speak for years
I always found it amazing how people got married multiple times it takes time to even cultivate a relationship.
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Agree, but back in those days people didn't just live together as a couple, it was considered immoral, particularly for women, so people just "did the right thing" they got married, and if she got pregnant, they definitely got married, very conservative times back then!
@@roadrunner381 good point.
Kari Cooper, I agree, how do they do it!
@@opaulamorgan4265 well someone explained it this way back then instead of people shacking up or "hooking up" they got married which seems to make sense.
I'm so glad Bogart was able to trumphant at the end of his career. He showed all of Hollywood what a great actor he was, became an ICON! Bogart and Bacall always came back to each other no matter what!
Great job!
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Interesting story, may he rest in peace, 🙏 great video thanks 🖤
My favourite actor❤️❤️❤️
I remember the way to haves and have nots when Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart my favorite movie when they were together
Cheaters cheat. Who's surprised? Bogart was married to another and Bacall was accepted of being the mistress. But I must say Bacall was absolutely gorgeous
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Humphrey Bogart was older when he met Bacall.Meaning he was probably more settled down. I honestly can't see Lauren Bacall putting up with any abuse from him. Seems like her character was stronger than that and also he had gotten sick. That slowed him down. He loved her very much, I think more than any one else he had been with before. This is my opinion.
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That's a sad shame about Humphrey! I was able to watch his Amazing block buster films thanks to the curiosity I had watching him parodied in many Looney Tunes shorts! Well...ill just remember him in his pictures than off the set.
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Humphrey Bogart...my favorite actor! African Queen is one of his best movies...although all of them are good!
Bogie and Bacall each had affairs with other people during their marriage: Bogie with his secretary and Bacall with Frank Sinatra.
Bogie with his long term hairdresser dont you mean lol
The narrator mentions "High Sierra" as among Bogart's biggest films----------Shouldn't that be "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"?
Two different movies, badges we don't need no stinkin badges
Sierra was big because this film made bogart a superstar, it changed his career.
@Tom Reedy Howard wanted bogie to play the Duke or would not make this movie, after testing bogart got the part, forrest was a hit and bogie got a contract from Warner brothers, he made many films but was usually 2nd or 3 billing ( 1937s Black legion was one of the few starring roles) until 1941s High Serra which became a critical and financial hit. After that bogart became a superstar, falcon and Casablanca would follow and the rest is history.
@@randyacuna3248 You are partially right. Howard and Bogie were in Petrified Forrest together on stage. When the play became a movie, Bogie wanted his part and contacted Howard begging him for helping in being cast in the movie. Howard agreed and told the studio if they did not hire Bogie to play Duke Manatee, Howard would not do the movie. The rest of Bogie's career is history! Love Black Legion!
Men simmer down as they age, I'm sure their relationship was just as lovely as it was seen to be. I mean Lauren stuck by a dying old man for two years, did she not?
I have somewhere a book called, "LIFE Goes To The Movies". There's a photo of Lauren & her daughter Leslie taken in Paris. Leslie was a teenager. Amazingly Leslie by her looks WAS DEFINITELY her father's daughter. Bogey's looks worked on her well.
Being bitchy ...but I would rather look like Bacall if I was the daughter.
@@madeleine9907 Lauren's look YEAH but thee amazing thing is Bogey's looks came oit SPLENDID on her.
Sounds like everything worked out great!
EXCELLENT
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I think bogie and Bacall were a good team I believe they really loved each other
Just watch his masterpiece Key Largo it's amazing.
I find it interesting that Lauren always maintained that Bogart was not an alcoholic, “not even close.” Then she went on to marry Jason Robards Jr., who was an alcoholic.
Bogie & Bacall were the real deal! 💞
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HA HA HA HAAW!!!
Thank you❣
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That 3rd wife Mayo has the classic female alcoholic look. They're nothing but trouble for themselves and anyone that gets involved with them. Something most people have to learn the hard way.
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No problem. That one was easy to spot. He has problems too but that must have been quite a pair when combined.
They were both huge drinkers
I definitely Believe that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Beall were really in love with each other and we're definitely the real deal
The African Queen is one of my favorite movies
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Very Good!...
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Sad, sad and sad ~ with sprinkles of amazing thrills
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They were truly in love. Who will ever forget "Bogie, and Bacall"
Yes they loved each other but I think Bacall turned a blind eye to a lot.
Theirs was a love story akin to fate. Lauren Bacall said many times that she fell so deeply in love with him, that there was no other path for her. She had to be with him. They were the loves of each other’s lives. But, maybe even more importantly, they were also extremely compatible, and they had a very happy marriage. Full of great care, concern and respect for one another. It also seems like Bacall mourned his death the rest of her life. And never again found lasting happiness with another man.
Dead End I think was one of his best movie
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I liked Mr.Bogart for his many contributions that he brought to the world of Hollywood as an actor. I have seen many of his films and more than once they were that good!!! As far as his personal life I feel that he was probably looking for love with out really knowing these women! Something we sometimes do today! It seemed fro him Mr Bogart that he had found the woman of his dreams when he met Lauren Bacall. Maybe that was true even though she was so much younger. So be it no big thing now back then a different story anyway some say age is just a number depends on who you ask!!!!!!!
One of my absolute favourite actors of all time.
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In my opinion Due to the fact that Sinatra and Bogey became great pal in his latter years sautalike father and son relation Sinatra really looked up to Bogart . Bogey gave Frank alot of pointers in acting .Frank was one of a few actor friends he invited to his home for his personal cocktail parties along with Specet Tracey Richard Burton which was his next door neighbor Peter Lorre onong others when Bogey became weak forced to a wheelchair Ftank use to carry Bogey to where he wanted I believe that Bogey wanted Baby to consent to Frank He was there too often and Bogeys guest
The final sentence in this video made it sound like Bogart and Bacall's relationship was abusive. I believe nothing could be further from the truth. They seemed to adore each other and the chemistry on screen was unmatched. As the song goes "age aint nothing but a number."
Bogie should of won an Oscar for one his earlier films but the Oscar committee dropped the ball . So to make up for it they threw him a bone with the Oscar award for The African Queen, late in his career. No big deal to them but in the meantime Brando got screwed out of his Oscar that year 😕
They were Bogie & Bacall ...in love, that's clear.
Humphrey is ok but my dude is Cagney.
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Cagney was a stable personality who didn't suffer with these Hollyweirdian spiritual disorders.
True love.
If it wasn't for celluloid, none of these characters would ever have existed.
We could really truly never know how the relationship was the only ones that can tell us another one that a die
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I think they Loved each other.
When the AFI voted Bogie the top male star of the first 100 years of cinema, it was many years after he was gone. My imagination only guesses what his response would have been.
Such a talented actor,sad have to go so young 🙏
We agree. Thank you for sharing your message to Humphrey. He will be missed 😢
One of my favorite actors I believe she truly loved him
Cool
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I thought she had an affair with Frank Sinatra whilst married to Bogey?
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IMHO, The best and most accurate account of Bogart and Bacall's lives, separate and together, is the recent (2023) duo-biography by William Mann.
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The Greatest Of Them All, Rest In Peace.
What’s the film at 3:52
At that time 'paranoid schizophrenia' was a catch-all diagnosis that was used way too often. Possibly, (time will tell) the way 'narcissism' is used today.
Bogie , Your the Best
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Interesting.
Bogus rumors about his hair stylist. I don't belive a word of it.
Recall the scene in To Have and Have Not, Bogart admiringly watching Miss Bacall light a cigarette. "Anybody got a match? Thanks."
A most seductive smoker especially at age 19!
I was expecting a revelation that never came. Otherwise I would say that Bogart was my favourite American star of the 1940s.
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Now I can see that their part on the screen was a mirror image of their lives for the two of them. Great actors. There is always a downside to actors, wealth and their lives.
This channel is always looking for and promoting gossip about famous film stars. Bogart and Bacall were VERY HAPPY. She’s written about it and every time she’s interviewed it’s patently obvious they loved each other deeply. So give over trying to infer they weren’t happy behind the scenes. Her word trumps anything this channel can think it knows or writes that contradicts Bacall.
Soooo I’m seeing a dude who might not cared he was a beard till he made his name and found the woman he really wanted?
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That sounds about right! First 2 wives were bisexual, third wife was alcoholic, mentally ill. I believe Bogie & Bacall truly did love each other, even though he may have wandered, Bacall admitted she loved to flirt so it is possible she did the same.
Do I think they were truly in love? I'd have to know what "true love" is before I could answer that.
Bogie & Bacall we're in love. She said so... convincingly.
I don’t think it’s anyones business about their life. Too often people stick their nose in where it doesn’t belong.
Great actor!
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Darkness in a relationship doesn't necessarily preclude (feelings of) love & loyalty. Not a good sign though...
I still like The African Queen best of all.
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`Verita Bouvaire Thompson, was Bogart's wig maker.... and long-time mistress.She was a vivacious brunette who could out-drink and out-swear the big screen legend. He had a 17-year affair with Bogart, which began two years 'before he met Bacall' on the set of 1944's To Have and Have Not, and continued right up until his end in 1957.
Yes he was bald and wore wigs....beautifully made by Miss Thompson. For starters, the hair immortalized on Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon was actually a hairpiece.
According to the autobiography Bogie and Me: A Love Story, Verita Thompson would carry ten different toupees for him in her briefcase. In fact, Thompson made them herself: she was one of Hollywood’s foremost experts in toupees. Her work contributed to Bogart’s iconic film appearances. So. Bogart seems the type to always have more than one woman at a time. He was married three times before Miss Bacall and had many a public fight with one wife in particular who herself would turn up with bruises on her face. She did stab him in the arm once but yes he was a violet drunk also. So we did romance a lot about him didn't we?
I found Verita's book fascinating and yes it did give me a different perspective of Bogie. I guess it made him more human to me. Don't forget Metho stabbed him in the back and the fixers had to take care of that cover up! In their battles, they gave as good as they got! They weren't known as "The Battling Bogarts" for nothing!
Yes we'll be talking to you and maybe we can do
Many articles prove his marriage was over way before then due to alcohol.
Laura Bacal was originally from Romania and she loved Kirk Douglas initially
Her ancestors were from Romania. She was American, born Betty Joan Persky in New York.
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Lauren Bacall openly admitted to having an affair with Frank Sinatra. It was still going on as Bogie was in his last days of life
Bogie also had a affair with his long term hairdresser
thay had itt awll, just Lyké. .....
Bogart supposedly had an affair all through his marriage to Bacall. That woman wrote a book called Bogie And Me, which I owned a copy of, but it was stolen. I like Lauren Bacall, I have a feeling she was the best wife of the four.
Sluttpuppy , comes to mind lol!!
They were beards for each other.
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What do you mean by beards. Isn’t that usually reserved for homosexuals in a marriage to cover their homosexuality?
I don’t think there was abuse there. I think that he was in love with her, don’t know if she loved him or not.
Sinatra the mouse that roared
Why didn't he win Casablanca..
Still, he'd always have Paris.
Will look at the kid , she was over 18, and he started the Rat Pack. He was a bigger womanizer than Sinatra.I think Bacall had an Affair with Frank.
There should be a significant age difference. Its in our DNA. Half the man's age plus 7 years, say the French!!
I read her book. ( Lauren Bacall) I seams to me every man she was romantic involved with was a MARRIAED man at the time of their relationship. Yes she did marry after they divorced their other waives. He was her soul mate. Nevertheless she was one of my favorites.
Dumb and cant spell ....🤣😅
She married another alcoholic, Jason Robards. Boy, could she pick 'em!
After I read Bacall's first book, I didn't like her very well. Watching her interviews while I was growing up, I thought she was uppity and wondered if she would have had a career at all if she hadn't married Bogie.
Bacall loved Bogart so much she tried to duplicate him by marrying hard drinking great actor Jason Robards who was a similar 'rough at the edges' type and it just didn't work.
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When Bogart was terminal, Bacall started an affair with Frank Sinatra. Maybe you can figure out * how deep was their love."
what can you expect, people such as actors and singers fall for the false made personas in the Hollywood industry. Once that ideal persona is broken to reality, they search for indulgence somewhere else. The character they portray to the public and paparazzi is artificial and different to their real raw selves
Some of these comments are fact, some fiction, in Lauren Bacall's book she states that the relationship with Sinatra began after Bogart's death. I think she respected and was too devoted to Bogart to betray him by being unfaithful!
What I got from Bacall's first book was she loved to flirt and did so openly. She hinted at some kind of relationship with Sinatra while Bogie was on his sick bed. It was enough that Bogie started to get jealous of them, even though he told her to go see Sinatra's act in Palm Springs. He was too ill to go with her. What kind of wife does that? Her comment of having a much older husband was more understanding shocked me. So, I agree with you Margo.
Wife-beating was not uncommon during Bogaerts lifetime it was part of the culture period as the old saying goes once a wife beater always a wife beater. Andy was a great actor as well it happens
His third wife Mayo Methot was mentally unstable, and her alcoholism made her condition worse. When they were drunk and fought it was a free for all. Mayo even stabbed Bogie once. They were known as the Battling Bogarts. Fighting physically, tearing up furniture and the house. I bet it was hard being a neighbor to all that!
Probably datker