Gable vs. Bogart

[HadleyH]

We can agree, though, they were both decent fellas and great actors!

Yes.

 

[J.L. Picard]

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Yes I am!
Thank you Tomasso!

Guys! check out the French version:

He is rough...He is the working class hero...OHHH I see excitement in your eyes...lol

 

[billgaston]

I have to throw my vote in for Bogart. By far I found his movies and charactors far more enjoyable than Gable's.

Although, It happened one night is an excellent film.

 

[WineGuy]

I am Bogey!

After six months checking out this joint, I can say with authority that there isn't a pretty mug among us...thank god!

Bogey is the sum of every one of us who believes that a man's presence, character, charisma and charm transcends the shallow Hollywood stereotype of "tall,dark and handsome".

Since catching the "fedora" fever I have read and learned more about
Bogart and his life, and the more I read the more impressed I am with the man.

Bogey is me...and I am Bogey!

 

[johnny]

Bogart is my favorite.

 

[NicknNora]

Love them both

I can't choose. I love both of them.

Nora

 

[tbrunke]

Both Gable and Bogart were great and it is hard to choose, but it should be no surpirse that I choose Cary Grant over them both!

 

[NicknNora]

Both Gable and Bogart were great and it is hard to choose, but it should be no surpirse that I choose Cary Grant over them both!

I loved Cary Grant too.

 

[Lorrel Mae]

No comparison, in my book.

Even when tossing in Cary.

Just. No. Comparison. [huh] shakeshead




My two pence...

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Here's lookin' at you kid...

Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, African Queen, The Big Sleep, The Caine Mutiny...

...Here's lookin' at you, Bogie

 

[MisterCairo]

Both Gable and Bogart were great and it is hard to choose, but it should be no surpirse that I choose Cary Grant over them both!

Funny, I've asked myself if I could be Bogart or Gable, I'd pick Grant! Seriously, though, if I could be Bogart or Gable for a day, I'd pick Bogart. He looks worldly yet lived in, comfortable in a casino or a tavern.

 

[klind65]

I've read about the affair between Joan Crawford and Gable which was said to have been quite a soul level connection aside from the obvious passion and magnetism involved. Later I saw a televised interview with her in which she said Gable was the "most masculine" man she had ever met.

I think she began her affair with Gable whilst still married to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and I believe it ended because one wanted to marry and the other didn't. The affair also was beleagured by pressure from L.B. Mayer who was concerned about the public's finding out.

...However they remained life long friends and when Lombard died, Crawford was the first person whom Gable called.

 

[klind65]

Has anyone read the book about Humphrey Bogart by Darwin Porter?... (I can't recall the exact title)

 

[Miss Golightly]

I would have to pick Bogart - every time! My parents loved him and I grew up watching all his movies. He was so loved by my parents that they called our German Shepherd "Bogie".

 

[Benzadmiral]

Yes. [Carole Lombard] was great fun!

A little OT, but this story, while it tells everything about Carole, might shed some light on Gable too, and on their relationship.

The story I've read is this: Carole was told there was a, shall we say, "house of ill repute" in California (or Nevada?) which specialized in girls who were ringers for famous movie stars. And one of them was a double for her, Carole Lombard.

Carole's reaction was immediate. Not horror, not shock, not "I'll sue!"

It was, with a rich laugh, "Don't tell Clark -- he'll want to go!"

Who wouldn't love a woman with such style!?!

 

[Mr Vim]

Bogart, hands down, no contest.

 

[hatophile]

Bogie, he got Lauren Bacall. Gable is a handsome dude, but Bogie is cooler.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City. His father was a successful doctor, his mother an artist. They say he was the model for the Gerber baby food baby.

He was best known for playing upper class juveniles. He is actually the first actor to deliver the line "Tennis, anyone?".

To me he was just another actor well into his thirties. He only came into his own as an actor, and became "Bogie" in his forties and fifties.

For most of his career he was a B movie actor, never as successful as Gable and never got near the big A movie starring roles.

I still like his work and can watch his movies over and over. I tend to admire people who never give up and continue to work and improve long after no one else can see the point.

 

[skyvue]

At the risk of sounding nit-picky, it's was Mellin's Baby Food, not Gerber's (which wasn't introduced until the late 1920s).

And Bogart himself said he never said "Tennis, anyone?" (though he did often play that type of character in the 1920s and uttered lines just as innocuous).

And it's not so that most of his career was spent as a "B" movie actor. He was a big star for 15 years, from 1941 until his death in early 1957, while he was a lesser known actor (though a very busy one) for just ten years, from 1930 through 1940.

And while he often played smaller roles that covered a limited range of character types prior to his becoming a star in 1941, most of those roles were in "A" pictures, not pictures made on small budgets meant to serve as the second half of a double-bill with an "A" picture (which is the definition of a "B" picture). Warner Brothers may not have been MGM when it came to budgets, but it was hardly a Poverty Row studio, either.

Aw heck, I do sound nit-picky, I guess, but there you go.

 

[Mario]

Aw heck, I do sound nit-picky, I guess, but there you go.

No problem at all. I'm with you. Let 'em have it!