Bogart (2012)
“Having firsthand and intimate knowledge of that time, I would say his first eight years of being Humphrey Bogart’s son were happy years. After that, with the death of his father, he learned too soon about endings. Growing up as the son of Humphrey Bogart, with all the curiosity of others that would bring, and his yearning to somehow emerge with an identity of his own, was quite a different matter. Having had to cope with the indescribable pain of loss, the confusion and anger that accompanies it, the sense of isolation from his two-parent peers—all throughout his most impressionable, formative, and needy years—must have presented obstacles and miseries beyond comprehension. He did not have the good fortune of time spent with his father or that most precious thing—memories—happy memories—to comfort him.
Added to that came the rebirth of Humphrey Bogart; the discovery of him by new generations elevated Bogie to an icon, to cult status (a status, incidentally, that now encompasses the world).
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