Bogart

Humphrey (1899-1957). American actor. He was the soft-hearted gangster, cynical and romantic at the same time. His tough expression with a cigarette always between his lips became an immediate icon of style, starting with his first movies. His consecration as a star came rather late, at the age of 37, with The Petrified Forest (1936), and then, five years later, with the first example of hard-boiled movies like The Maltese Falcon (1941). The wrinkled trench coat and the slightly sloping Borsalino hat became his trademark in the vast majority of his films, starting with Casablanca (1942). And at the same time, those two items appeared in the wardrobe of millions of men, becoming timeless classics. To prove the extent to which the myth and look of Bogart have entered the collective memory, it is enough to remember the way Woody Allen celebrated him on Broadway in Play It Again Sam (1972), or to recall how Belmondo, full of admiration, contemplated a photograph of Bogart in Godard’s A bout de souffle (Breathless, 1959). Even more recently, in the 1980s, Spielberg was inspired by Bogart when he created the wardrobe for his hero Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford.