1.23.2006

Things I didn't know about Bogie


Here are some tidbits about Humphrey Bogart whose birthday is today

* Born in NY 1899
* He was expelled from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts
* Joined the Navy to fight in World War I serving as the ship’s gunner
* One day, while roughhousing on the ship's wooden stairway, he tripped and fell, and a splinter became lodged in his upper lip; the result was a scar as well as partial paralysis of the lip, resulting in the tight-set mouth and lisp that became one of his most distinctive onscreen qualities.

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