Once Upon a Time or Maybe Twice.

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“Among the actors at Warners,” reveals George Hurrell, “Bogie was positively unique.If Gable and I were comrades, Bogie and I were conspirators.He was very serious about his work,which a lot of people never realized.He would strike poses tha were familiar to him, the upward look, hand rubbing jaw, the business with the cigarette, then he’d say: ’ Okay, kid let’s do something different’, and we’d maneuver new positions and new expressions. The music was always loud and furious.

“He was not the easiest man to photograph, and he knew it. ‘Leave in the lines,’ he would say, ‘I’m proud of ‘em’. In earlier photographs his famous lip scar was retouched, but it had become so famous by the time I reached Warners that we pretty much left it alone. It became his trademark. The scar had been caused shortly after WWI, when Bogart was escorting military prisoners, and was hit in the mouth by a handcuffed prisoner.

“He was a notorious ‘needler’, but he never needled me. He was too professional to engage in this sort of pastime when working. Later on, he began to lose his hair and wore a rather good rug. ‘I never appear professionally without it’, he told me, ’ because that guy up there on the screen has a full head of hair”

(Source: signorelligirl)