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- Submited:2007-01-18 16:25:32
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About Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart - biography; photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: He was born Humphrey DeForest Bogart on 25 December 1899 in New York City, New York, the oldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart and Maud Humphrey, both of whom were of English descent. It was long believed that his birthday on Christmas Day was a Warner Bros. fiction created to romanticise his background, and that he was really born on 23 January 1899, a date that appeared in many references. This story is now considered baseless. Although no birth certificate has ever been found to settle the issue conclusively, his birth notice did appear in a Boston newspaper in early January 1900, which would support the December 1899 date. The 1900 census for the household of Belmont Bogart lists his son Humphrey as having a birthdate in December of 1899. Lauren Bacall always maintained this was his true birth date. Bogart's father was a successful surgeon. His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a very successful commercial illustrator. Indeed, she used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known ad campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she made over $50,000 a year as an illustrator, then a vast sum. The Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, and had a cottage in upstate New York. Maud Humphrey was a distant woman and the Bogarts' marriage was troubled. Both parents were alcoholics and/or morphine addicts at various times. Maud also suffered intense migraine headaches. "I can't say I ever loved my mother," Bogart once said. "I admired her." He was raised mostly by an Irish nurse. "My parents fought," he said another time. "We kids would pull the covers over our ears to keep out the sound of fighting. Our home was kept together for the sake of the children as well as for the sake of propriety." From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, and a love of fishing and especially sailing. Humphrey was the oldest child of three. Both of Bogart's younger sisters were troubled adul...
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