He said that he was drawn to acting because of a “great need to be liked and admired.”

Humphrey Bogart’s War Films in the 1950s

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Humphrey Bogart’s Four Marriages While playing double role in Drifting at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922, Bogart met actress Helen Menken; they were married on May 20, 1926, at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City.

Of his 75 features, in a career spanning more than two decades,  13 (about 17 percent) were such movies: