📍245 West 103rd Street, New York, NY 10025, USA
1899 – 1917“I was born on Christmas Day 1899 and grew up in a handsome brownstone at 245 West 103rd Street, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. My father, Belmont DeForest Bogart, was a respected heart surgeon, and my mother, Maud Humphrey, was one of the most successful illustrators in America, earning more than my father. She used me as a model, and a drawing of me as a baby became famous in advertisements for Mellin's baby food. I was the eldest of three children, and we had servants, but our home was formal and cool; my parents were not demonstrative, and I learned early to keep my feelings to myself. My happiest days were spent in the summers at Willow Brook, our family's estate on the shore of Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York. There I learned to sail and to play chess, two loves that stayed with me all my life, and I spent long days on the water with friends from the neighbouring summer houses. In the city I went to Trinity School, where I was a poor student, more interested in mischief than books. My parents planned for me to follow my father into medicine, and in 1917 they sent me to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, his old school. I lasted less than a year before being expelled, and in 1918 I joined the Navy. After the war I drifted into the theatre and then films, and in roles like Rick in Casablanca I played the cool, guarded man that my upbringing had perhaps made me.”
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