Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz) “Bogart’s response to the success of Casablanca was more typically sardonic. He enjoyed telling his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, how Charles Enfield, the studio’s head of publicity, had the amazing revelation that the actor had sex appeal. Says Bacall, ‘Bogie would say, ‘Of course, I did nothing in Casablanca that I hadn’t done in twenty movies before that, and suddenly they discover I’m sexy. Any time that Ingrid Bergman looks at a man, he has sex appeal.’” -excerpted from The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz)

“Bogart’s response to the success of Casablanca was more typically sardonic. He enjoyed telling his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, how Charles Enfield, the studio’s head of publicity, had the amazing revelation that the actor had sex appeal.

Says Bacall, ‘Bogie would say, ‘Of course, I did nothing in Casablanca that I hadn’t done in twenty movies before that, and suddenly they discover I’m sexy. Any time that Ingrid Bergman looks at a man, he has sex appeal.’”

-excerpted from The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart on their wedding day (1945, photo by Ed Clark for LIFE) Bacall: “In the bathroom I could hear the start of the Wedding March. Oh God, why hadn’t they waited? Later George told me Bogie looked up and said, ‘Where is she?’ George’s romantic reply: ‘Hold it! She’s in the can!’ I emerged - [the piano player] started again - and George and I started our descent. My knees shook so, I was sure I’d fall down the stairs. Bogie standing there looking so vulnerable and so handsome - like a juvenile… “When I reached Bogie, he took my hand - the enormous, beautiful white orchids I was holding were shaking themselves to pieces; as I stood there, there wasn’t a particle of me that wasn’t moving visibly…As I glanced at Bogie, I saw tears streaming down his face - his ‘I do’ was strong and clear, though. As Judge Shettler said, “I now pronounce you man & wife,’ Bogie and I turned toward each other - he leaned to kiss me - I shyly turned my cheek - all those eyes watching made me very self-conscious. He said, ‘Hello, Baby’. I hugged him and was reported to have said, “Oh, goody.’ Hard to believe, but maybe I did.” “Everyone hugged and kissed everyone else and more tears were shed. Bogie said it was when he heard the beautiful words of the ceremony and realized what they meant - what they should mean - that he cried.” -excerpted from By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart on their wedding day (1945, photo by Ed Clark for LIFE)

Bacall: “In the bathroom I could hear the start of the Wedding March. Oh God, why hadn’t they waited? Later George told me Bogie looked up and said, ‘Where is she?’ George’s romantic reply: ‘Hold it! She’s in the can!’ I emerged - [the piano player] started again - and George and I started our descent. My knees shook so, I was sure I’d fall down the stairs. Bogie standing there looking so vulnerable and so handsome - like a juvenile…

“When I reached Bogie, he took my hand - the enormous, beautiful white orchids I was holding were shaking themselves to pieces; as I stood there, there wasn’t a particle of me that wasn’t moving visibly…As I glanced at Bogie, I saw tears streaming down his face - his ‘I do’ was strong and clear, though. As Judge Shettler said, “I now pronounce you man & wife,’ Bogie and I turned toward each other - he leaned to kiss me - I shyly turned my cheek - all those eyes watching made me very self-conscious. He said, ‘Hello, Baby’. I hugged him and was reported to have said, “Oh, goody.’ Hard to believe, but maybe I did.”

“Everyone hugged and kissed everyone else and more tears were shed. Bogie said it was when he heard the beautiful words of the ceremony and realized what they meant - what they should mean - that he cried.”

-excerpted from By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall

Another blooper reel (from Warner Brothers Studios) of actors cussing & flubbing their lines, this one featuring Bogart & Bacall, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Ronald Reagan, and James Cagney, among others.

“The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.” -Humphrey Bogart (via gettyimages)

“The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.”

-Humphrey Bogart (via gettyimages)

On World Peace: “The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble.” -Humphrey Bogart 

On World Peace:

“The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble.”

-Humphrey Bogart 

“I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.” -Humphrey Bogart (1928, via drmacro)

“I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.”

-Humphrey Bogart (1928, via drmacro)

“She’s disciplined, like all those ballet dames.” -Humphrey Bogart on Audrey Hepburn (1954)

“She’s disciplined, like all those ballet dames.”

-Humphrey Bogart on Audrey Hepburn (1954)