The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart: The Early Years (1899-1931)

by Darwin Porter (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  Compiled from extensive eyewitness interviews, Darwin Porter delves deep into the star's hot, horny formative years on Broadway and in early Talkie Hollywood. Until recently, very little was known about the early life of Hollywood's most famous movie star. But now, looking at everything from his affairs with such starlets as Marlene Dietrich and Bette Davis, to his AWOL escapades in the army, to his compulsive brushes with gangsters, prostitutes and blackmailers, this is the untold story of Hollywood's hottest hunk in history. At long last we find out what this young, serial seducer was doing behind the scenes, including: - How young Bogie became involved with some of the most dazzling figures of the Roaring Twenties: Mae West, Valentino, Louise Brooks...and Charlie Chaplin. - Why Bogie married a lesbian, Helen Menken, and shared her with Tallulah Bankhead. - How Bogie became sucked into the world of bisexuality that flourished in Hollywood. - How Hollywood's homosexual elite pursued Bogie in the heyday of his virile good looks and macho charm - and details about who won and who lost!