From 1941 to 1953, director John Huston and actor Humphrey Bogart made one classic film after another, from The Maltese Falcon to The African Queen. Here is the story of their close but combative friendship that produced some of the best movies ever made.
Every time they made a movie together, they made a classic-or so it seemed for star Humphrey Bogart and writer/director John Huston. Their six collaborations from 1941 and 1953 include many of the "golden age" hits from Hollywood's fabled film legacy: The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The African Queen, and Beat the Devil.
At the same time, both men led fiercely separate lives-except when they were making pictures together. Sometimes they agreed and sometimes they argued, always keeping their eyes on the results. What did each man bring to the collaboration, and how did their six films together reflect their disparate personalities?
Their friendship was as dramatic as any of their movies. It survived nine marriages, a world war, the blacklist, leeches, alcohol, and Jack L. Warner. Here is the story of these two legendary talents, their films, their lives, their foes, and their remarkable devotion to each other.
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"Bogart and Huston devotes a chapter to each film, retelling the plot, comparing it to its source material, and fully discussing the production both on and off the screen. The most interesting is the bizarro failure that has become a cult hit, Beat the Devil. Mr. Segaloff wittily sums up [Beat the Devil] as 'born in compromise, planned in arrogance, filmed in panic, and released in desperation.'" -- <B><I>The Wall Street Journal</I></B> "Segaloff's analysis of their friendship and its complexities fascinates." -- <B>The Film Stage</B> "Segaloff does good work describing and advocating for their less remembered film together, Beat the Devil." -- <I><B>The Shepherd Express</B></I> "An entertaining look at two brilliant Hollywood figures and the cinematic legacy they created." -- <I><B>Library Journal</B></I> "Combining elements of biography and film history, with some making-of details added into the mix, the book explores the lives of two men who depended on each other to bring out their best (and in some cases, their worst). A welcome addition to the voluminous literature about Bogart, Huston, and the movies they made." -- <I><B>Booklist</B></I> "A film critic celebrates one of cinema's most fruitful writer-director alliances. An admirably non-hagiographic book. Segaloff charts classics from Key Largo (1948) to The African Queen (1951) to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and lesser efforts such as Beat the Devil (1953). It's fun to read about these two men and their respective misadventures." -- <B><I>Kirkus Reviews</I></B> "An unmistakable authenticity and authority pervade every word of Nat Segaloff's Bogart and Huston. Penned with precision and elegant audacity, this singular sensation speaks volumes of the combined lives, careers, and films of the famed dynamic duo. The sheer ego and separate personas of this Tinseltown team-?partnered with and explored by Segaloff's unmatched behind-the-scenes insight and literary expertise-make for a one-of-a-kind public delineation of a two-of-a-kind but very different, complex pair of Hollywood professionals." -- <B>Herbie J. Pilato, actor/writer/producer</B> "Others have previously examined the celebrated careers of Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, but no one has ever 'packaged' them together in much the same way that studios still bundle creative elements. By counter-posing the lives of two of classic Hollywood's most marketable men, Nat Segaloff reveals countless details about their process, not just in the movies they made together but as notable artists and individuals. Chock full of remarkable details, Bogart and Huston is well worth the price of admission." -- <B>Alain Silver, author of <i>The Films of David Lean</i> and <i>Film Noir Fatal Women</i></B> Quotes on Humphrey Bogart and John Huston:
"He was about something." -- <B>Lauren Bacall on John Huston's death</B> "John and Bogie were like children." -- <B>Evelyn Keyes (Huston's third wife)</B>
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16 pages of B&W photographs
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Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-63936-931-7 (9781639369317)
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Nat Segaloff has been a movie publicist and film critic, college instructor, broadcaster, speechwriter, and documentary film producer. Among his more than thirty books are biographies of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn, Harlan Ellison, John Milius, and Paul Mazursky, as well as comprehensive works on The Exorcist, Scarface, and Rambo. He lives in Los Angeles.
