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There was no shortage of star power during the 1940s. From Ernest Hemingway to William Faulkner, from Jimmy Stewart to Katharine Hepburn, from Frank Sinatra to Judy Garland, the 1940s were a golden age in all of the arts.
Somehow, Humphrey Bogart was able to stand out from this stellar group. While his career spanned many decades, the 1940s saw many of Bogart's definitive works. In a remarkably prolific decade, Bogart starred in Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, High Sierra and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
He played heroes and anti-heroes, good guys and bad guys. Though hardly a screen idol, he managed to produce remarkable screen chemistry with the likes of Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman and Mary Astor.
By 1947, Bogart was the highest paid actor in the world and had started his own production company. As remarkable as his career was in the 1940s, the 1950s would see Bogart win his only Oscar in 1951 for The African Queen, and earn another nomination, three years later, for The Caine Mutiny. Bogart's only other nomination came for his classic role as Rick Blaine in Casablanca.
In 1999, the American Film Institute would name Bogart as the Greatest Male Star of All Time.
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