Flashback: Bogey, Before Bacall

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This episode was originally released on September 9, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Humphrey Bogart is perhaps the most enduring icon of grown-up masculine cool to come out of Hollywood’s first century. But much of what we think of when we think of Bogart — the persona of the tough guy with the secret soft heart, his pairing on-screen and off with Lauren Bacall — coalesced late in Bogart’s life. Today we take a look at how Humphrey Bogart became Bogey, tracing his journey from blue blood beginnings through years of undistinguished work and outright failure (both in the movies and in love), to his emergence in the early 1940s as a symbol of wartime perseverance who could make sacrifice seem sexy. Finally, we’ll look at what it took to get him to take the leap into a fourth marriage that seemed to saved his life … until the world’s most glamorous stoic was faced with cancer. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.1	Welcome to a you must remember this flashback.
0:37.5	Almost every week this season, we're going to rerun an older episode of You Must Remember
0:43.0	this that has some relevance to the upcoming new episodes of our new season.
0:49.5	The old man is still alive.
0:53.6	The episode you're about to hear is one of our earliest episodes from the
0:57.8	first year of the podcast. I told the stories of the careers and romance of Lauren Bacall and
1:04.7	Humphrey Bogart over the course of two episodes. This was the first of the pair, and it tracks Bogart from birth to death,
1:13.6	with Bacall entering his life about halfway through. I chose this episode as this week's
1:18.8	flashback, because it includes a section on how and why Hawks cast Bacall in her first film,
1:25.6	The Bogart starring To Have and Have Not. This episode explains how Bacall in her first film, The Bogart starring To Have and Have Not.
1:29.0	This episode explains how Bacall fit the mold of Hawks' ideal woman, who was embodied by
1:34.9	Hawks' second wife, Slim Arons. Not that Hawks treated Slim particularly well. And as you'll
1:43.4	hear in next week's episode, that was not an unusual
1:46.4	complaint when it came to women who worked with or were romantically involved with Hawks. He put
1:53.1	some of the strongest and most iconic female characters of the 30s and 40s on screen,
1:58.4	but he also had an extremely rigid idea of what constituted beauty
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