A juicy saga of a film icon's early love affairs, revealing what really lay under the trench coat of history's most famous movie star. This is a radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's earlier Bogart biographies, incorporating a wider timeline - in this case, the years between Bogart's birth in 1899 until his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. This revelatory book is based on dusty, unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries and personal interviews from the women and the men who adored him, as well as shocking allegations ...
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A juicy saga of a film icon's early love affairs, revealing what really lay under the trench coat of history's most famous movie star. This is a radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's earlier Bogart biographies, incorporating a wider timeline - in this case, the years between Bogart's birth in 1899 until his marriage to Lauren Bacall in 1944. This revelatory book is based on dusty, unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries and personal interviews from the women and the men who adored him, as well as shocking allegations from those who didn't.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. paper clip impression at top edges of pp.399/400. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 542 p. Audience: General/trade.
At the front of the biography, Darwin Porter reveals that he was privy to first hand written accounts of Bogart's life, having had access to an abundance of letters and journal pertaining to his subject. What is uncanny, and perhaps a little hard to believe, is the explicit details contained in this salacious, but compelling recounting of Bogie's life. For any Bogart fan willing to peal away the sheen of varnish on the enduring star, this is a scandal sheet bar none. From his uppper middle-class upbringing--doctor father, artist mother--wherein alcohol and morphine were common addictions, to Humphrey's adolescent sexual longings, and forays into Broadway theatre, to his long slog to stardom in Hollywood, and numerous sexual exploits, this is one hotsy-totsy read (Porter's book also exposes the varied and frenetic amorous proclivites of many stars of his era.). Crack open the book and banish your illusions from your brain; keep an open mind; just go to! Don't be surprised when your eyeballs widen and roll in their sockets!
