Bogie  Bacall, William J. Mann
Bogie  Bacall, William J. Mann
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Bogie & Bacall
The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair

Author: William J. Mann

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 27 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/11/2023


Synopsis

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New York City; Bacall’s rise as a model and actress. He paints a vivid portrait of their courtship and twelve-year marriage: the fights, the reconciliations, the children, the affairs, Bogie’s illness and Bacall’s steadfastness until his death. He offers a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of Bacall’s life after Bogie, exploring her relationships with Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, who would become her second husband, and the identity crisis she faced.Surpassing previous biographies, Mann digs deep into the celebrities’ personal lives and considers their relationship from surprising angles. Bacall was just nineteen when she started dating the thrice-married forty-five-year-old Bogart. How might that age gap have influenced their relationship? In addition to what she gained, what might Bacall have lost by marrying a Hollywood superstar more than twice her age? How did Bogart, a man of average looks, become one of the greatest movie stars of all time? Throughout, Mann explains the unparalleled successes of their individual careers as well as the extraordinary love between them and the legend that has endured.Filled with entertaining details and thoughtful insights based on newly available records and correspondence, Bogie & Bacall offers a fresh look at this famous couple, their remarkable relationship, and their legacy.

About William J. Mann

William J. Mann is the New York Times bestselling author of The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando; Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn; How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood; Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand; Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines; and Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award. He divides his time between Connecticut and Cape Cod.


Reviews

The world seems never to tire of these two stars. "Ten years on, it’s time to turn a fresh eye on their story—not to tear their legend down, as people always fear about reassessments of their favorites’ lives, but to understand how Bogie and Bacall happened, what their story meant, and in how many w......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 22, 2023

I love being transported to the golden age of Hollywood. The black & white noir movies of yesteryear. When the elegant actors would take each other’s hand and walk into the bedroom and close the door. I appreciated that as viewers we were allowed to have our imaginations do the work for us. And if i......more

Goodreads review by Truman32 on September 27, 2023

As everyone knows, Casablanca is my favorite movie of all time. Everyone knows this because I will not shut my pie hole about the wonder of this magnificent work of art, or quoting from this motion picture even if the quotes I use are misremembered and often incorrect. Why just the other day I said......more

Goodreads review by Cat on October 30, 2023

My father the professor once told me that it's harder to write a short paper than a long one, because you have to figure out what's really important and what you can leave out. This book is a great example of what happens when you think ALL your research is important. It's looooong. Twenty-eight hou......more

Goodreads review by Paula on February 22, 2023

**ARC from Edelweiss** This was a deep dive into the relationship of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who wasn't already a fan of the two because you get a LOT of information on both. The author has meticulously researched their individual lives as well as their......more