The two have an instant connection and engage in conversation about their mutual love of poetry and art, but their blissful ...

it’s as sizzling as the romances in their first two movies Bogart played desperate criminal Duke Mantee who holds a writer (Leslie Howard) and a waitress with dreams of being an artist (Bette ...

When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of ...

Humphrey Bogart was one of Hollywood’s most glamorous ... His portrayal of gangster Duke Mantee electrified audiences, and helped establish him as one of America’s most talented actors.

This he found in 1935 in Duke Mantee, Robert Sherwood's convict in ... In 1936 Leslie Howard, the star of the play, insisted Bogart duplicate his part on screen, and thus one of the lasting ...