Humphrey Bogart

One of the most prolific biographers in the world, Darwin Porter inherited the diaries, notes, and oral histories of writers and witnesses who had known and followed the career of Humphrey Bogart beginning in the 1920s. This remarkable compendium of information results from three generations of Bogart fans watching, evaluating, and recording the foibles and eccentricities of America's most famous movie star.

On the silver screen he was tough, cool, and sophisticated. In real life, he was one of Hollywood's legendary lovers. Sexually voracious and habitually unfaithful, Humphrey Bogart had three unhappy marriages before he met the love of his life, Lauren Bacall. Now it has emerged in an extraordinary new biography that before marrying her in 1945, Bogie had bedded an estimated 1,000 women, including Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and Ingrid Bergman. The claim is made in a new biography of the actor by Darwin Porter, a journalist who worked in Hollywood in the 1960s. It's based on unpublished memoirs and interviews with some of the actor's contemporaries. -- David Wilkes, The Daily Mail (UK), October 3, 2010