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"All you owe the public is a good performance." - Humphrey Bogart A lot of time has been spent within the lives of history's most important results, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute. And they can do this while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. Americans have always enjoyed movie stars, and there were no shortage of Hollywood symbols, but one man is definitely considered the greatest male legend. From the time he first became a leading man, Humphrey Bogart's display image has resonated with viewers more than perhaps every other actor. At the end of the 20th century, when the North american Film Institute built its list of the 50 most significant American display legends, Bogart was near the top of the list. His persona as a hardcore guy who manages to keep his sense of virtue no matter how compromising the situation features in a few of the most famous films available, including Casablanca (1942), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Key Largo (1949). Bogart's display persona had not been only desired (everyone wished to end up like Bogart) but also highly approachable, in the sense that he played the everyman body a lot more than Cary Give or Laurence Olivier. Bogart also had good timing, with some of his popularity because of the fact that he rose to fame in an age when the film industry was at its most potent. Bogart's best coincided with the golden age of cinema; sound had been successfully integrated and the studio system ruled in the industry.
