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Bogie & Bacall : The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair - William J. Mann

Bogie & Bacall

The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

By: William J. Mann

Hardcover | 11 July 2023

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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, and illustrated with 30-40 photographs, Bogie & Bacall offers a fresh look at this famous couple, their remarkable relationship, and their legacy.

About the Author

William Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, Tinseltown: Mruder, Morphine, Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and most recently The Wars of the Roosevelts. His biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He has worked as a freelance journalist and editor, and writes both fiction and nonfiction. He currently splits his time between Provincetown, Massachusetts and Palm Springs, California with his partner, Dr. Timothy Huber.

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