The hard-boiled detective whose head is turned by the femme fatale.
Bogart’s most famous movie remains Casablanca (1942), in which he starred as the charming cafe-salon owner, Rick Blaine, but his most extensive and defining work was within film noir.
One of the best known performances is his portrayal of detective Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946), which stands among the greatest adaptations focusing on the fictional character.
Bogart’s career in film noir notably led to him meeting his costar, Lauren Bacall, while filming To Have and Have Not in 1944, and they later married. This development is rather unsurprising, considering their strong onscreen chemistry in The Big Sleep.
Other standouts of Bogart’s noirs include The Maltese Falcon (1941), Key Largo (1948) and In a Lonely Place (1950), which in my view represents his best work.
