Bogey: The good-bad guy

A biography as unsentimental and as toughminded as Bogey himself. Author Goodman interviewed dozens of Hollywood's greats, Bogey's friends and his enemies, actors such as Peter Lorre, who worked with Bogey in Casablanca & The Maltese Falcon; Edward G. Robinson; John Huston; Pat O'Brien; and directors such as Michael Curtiz and Jerry Wald and a host of others. Then there is Bogey's views on evertything from politics to yachting to women to drinking to gangsters to chess, an amazing fascinating range of topics! Through the pages you meet a stellar cast of who's who: Ingrid Bergman; Errol Flynn; Frank Sinatra; Spencer Tracy; Katherine Hepburn; Damon Runyon; Peter Ustinov; Richard Burton; Marilyn Monroe; and much more. There is also Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Bogey) and her comments on Bogey the suitor, Bogey the husband, Bogey the father, Bogey the man. There are fascinating sidelights into his films such as Casablanca; The Caine Mutiny, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Petrified Forest. Here are the fueds with Warner Brothers, his gags, his practical jokes, his titanic battles with his third wife, Mayo Methot, and above all what he thought of his "tough guy" image. A very informative, engrossing, and throughly entertaining read.