
Bogie & Bacall
The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair
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Narrated by:
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Todd McLaren
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By:
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William J. Mann
From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.
In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New York City; Bacall’s rise as a model and actress. He paints a vivid portrait of their courtship and twelve-year marriage: the fights, the reconciliations, the children, the affairs, Bogie’s illness and Bacall’s steadfastness until his death. He offers a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of Bacall’s life after Bogie, exploring her relationships with Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, who would become her second husband, and the identity crisis she faced.
Surpassing previous biographies, Mann digs deep into the celebrities’ personal lives and considers their relationship from surprising angles. Bacall was just nineteen when she started dating the thrice-married forty-five-year-old Bogart. How might that age gap have influenced their relationship? In addition to what she gained, what might Bacall have lost by marrying a Hollywood superstar more than twice her age? How did Bogart, a man of average looks, become one of the greatest movie stars of all time? Throughout, Mann explains the unparalleled successes of their individual careers as well as the extraordinary love between them and the legend that has endured.
Filled with entertaining details and thoughtful insights based on newly available records and correspondence, Bogie & Bacall offers a fresh look at this famous couple, their remarkable relationship, and their legacy.
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Glib and disappointing
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Too long!
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Bogie and Bacall
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Didn't Keep Me Enthralled
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Captures the ups and downs of “the golden era” of filmmaking and 2 of its brightest stars!
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Legends
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Bogart was a mess ..drunk and destructive just about all of his life; Wealthy but deprived of loving parents, he took out his resentment on most he encountered.
Jason Robards presents much the same: drunk and self centered.
Nothing inspirational here, just more of everything money can buy except peace of mind. The excuse being that one's ability to play a part on stage or screen allows for all degrees of egomaniacal and damaging behavior.
As an aside, seems par for the course for numerous Audible readers, the mispronunciations are glaring and peppered throughout.
Depressing
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Alienates key demographic by being over-the-top biased against Lauren Bacall
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Excellent
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