Humphrey Bogart was not one to mince words.
He was a plain-spoken man who excelled at playing plain-spoken characters.
When he deigned to opine on a particular subject, you could be absolutely certain that you were getting Bogie’s unvarnished take.
So when the mega-star of “The Maltese Falcon,” “Casablanca” and “The Big Sleep” unloaded on the upstart medium that was television in the 1950s, rest assured he meant every withering word.What prompted Bogie’s ire? It started in 1955, when he agreed to star in a televised production of Robert E.
Sherwood’s drama “The Petrified Forest.” Bogart was reprising the role…The post Humphrey Bogart Would Have Rather ‘Dug Ditches’ Than Taken His Career To TV appeared first on /Film.
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