{"product_id":"tough-guy-humphrey-bogart-in-his-own-words-and-in-the-words-of-those-who-knew-him-paperback","title":"Tough Guy: Humphrey Bogart in His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhatever the \"something special' is that constitutes a man's man and an actor's actor, he had it - and in abundance. Raised by a genteel East Coast family with a doctor father and a well-known artist mother, Humphrey DeForest Bogart emerged from a minor theatrical career in the 1920s to become one of Hollywood's most distinctive leading men, typically cast as smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters who lived in a world of dames, mugs, and coppers, yet anchored by a hidden moral code - hard-boiled cynics who ultimately show a noble side. In \"The Maltese Falcon,\" when Sydney Greenstreet's Kasper Gutman, says to Bogart's Sam Spade, \"By Gad, sir, you are a character - there's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing,\" he might just as well have been describing the real-life Humphrey Bogart. Here was a man who could charm the birds off the trees one minute, and tell a producer to go straight to hell the next. They threw away the mold when he moved on. This fizzy cocktail of a book lifts the veil off the movie tough guy to reveal the real-life tough guy. It provides an unvarnished portrait of a hard-drinking, prankish extrovert whose heart was as soft as his screen lines were hard. You get a little history and a bit of sociology. But the fun comes from the abundant helping of irreverence. His contemporaries as well as subsequent observers have plenty to say about Bogie - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and his own brash words provide an affectionate, perceptive portrait of a marvelous, contradictory man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50701306003679,"sku":"9781490904016","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I5monhQfdV9781490904016.webp?v=1785700891","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/tough-guy-humphrey-bogart-in-his-own-words-and-in-the-words-of-those-who-knew-him-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}