#duke mantee

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Steven Buchners wedding Dress

Here’s Steven Buchners wedding Dress for his wedding to his husband Duke Mantee

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duke is in love

alan: your in love duke arnt you

Duke mantee: yeah

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One of my favorite negative reviews

I can’t find a full text of it online, so I’m going to copy out some big chunks of Stephen Hunter’s retrospective on Gone with the Wind, which apparently resulted in lots of angry letters to the editor.

Long, stupid, ugly and, alas, back for the sixth time (in theaters, innumerable television showings have preceded this rerelease), it is probably the most beloved bad movie of all time, as its adjusted box office gross of $5 billion makes clear. If you love it, that is fine; but don’t confuse its gooeyness, its spiritual ugliness, its solemn self-importance, with either art or craft, for it boasts none of the former and only a bit of the latter. It is one of the least remarkable films of that most remarkable of American movie years, 1939. In fact, far from being one of the greatest American films ever made, I make it merely the twenty-eighth best film of 1939! It may not even have been the best movie that opened on December 15, 1939! It is overrated, overlong, and overdue for oblivion.

Of the various characters and actors:

It’s profoundly misogynistic...the secret pleasure of the film is watching Scarlett O’Hara being punished for the sin of selfhood. The movie delights in her crucifixion, even to the point of conjuring the death of a child as apt punishment for her ambitions. Her sin, really, is the male sin: the pride which goeth before the fall...

Leslie Howard was a great actor and a brave man, who raced home to join his unit when World War II broke out, thereby missing the famous December Atlanta premiere. He was killed in 1943 when the Nazis shot down a plane he was in. Let us lament him as we lament all the men who gave their lives to stop that evil. That said, the truth remains that on screen, he was a feathery creature, best cast as the foil to Bogart’s brutish Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, where his cathedral-abutment cheekbones gave him the look of an alabaster saint in the wall of an Italian church. But he was about as believable as a sexual object as he would have been as Duke Mantee...

The wondrous Olivia de Havilland was an actress of spunk and pizazz, and she gave as good as she got, even across from such hammy scene stealers as her longtime costar Flynn. But she, too, is trashed by Gone with the Wind as sugary Melanie Wilkes, a character of such selfless sweetness she could give Santa Claus a toothache.

Of the film as art:

Too much spectacle, not enough action. David O. Selznick, who produced the film and rode it to immortality, didn’t understand the difference between the two. Thus the film has a fabulous but inert look to it; the story is rarely expressed in action but only in diorama-like scenes. It is curiously flat and unexciting. Even the burning of Atlanta lacks dynamism and danger; it’s just a dapple of flickering orange filling the screen without the power and hunger of a real fire. And the movie’s most famous shot- the camera pulling back to reveal Scarlett in a rail yard of thousands of bleeding, tattered Confederate soldiers- makes exactly the wrong point. It seems to be suggesting that Scarlett has begun to understand that the war is much bigger than she is. And yet she never changes. The shot means nothing in terms of character; it’s an editorial aside that really misleads us.

Of the film’s message:

From its opening credits, which characterize the South as a lost land of lords and ladies, to its final images of Tara nestling among the Georgia dogwood, the movie buys into a myth that completely robs the region of its truth. Love it or hate it, it’s a land (as Faulkner knew) in which the nobility of its heroism lived side by side with the ugliness of its Original Sin: slavery. I’m not attacking the South here, just Margaret Michell and Selznick’s version of it. Other movies or 1939 were beginning to find the courage to express some subtle ideas. One of them was John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln.

Of its comparison to other 1939 movies:

I found 797 titles from the year 1939, had seen fewer than a tenth of them, and even on that small list there were 27 that struck me as fundamentally better than Gone with the Wind, movies that I would watch again with utter delight. They are: Allegheny Uprising, Another Thin Man, Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Dark Victory, Dodge City, Drums Along the Mohawk, Golden Boy, Gunga Din, Juarez, The Light that Failed, Made for Each Other, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Real Glory, The Roaring Twenties, Stagecoach, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Three Musketeers, Union Pacific, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Wuthering Heights, and Young Mr. Lincoln.

Dammit, my dear, I’m just being frank.

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"Petrified Forest, The" (1936) - Archie Mayo

"February Film Favourites" Day 16/28

This film provided Humphrey Bogart with his breakthrough role as the gangster Duke Mantee. Bogart had played the role opposite Leslie Howard on stage and when the time came to make the movie Leslie Howard told the studio that unless they cast Bogart as Mantee, he'd refuse to be in it. Howard was a major star at the time and Warner Brothers acquiesced.

One of my Top 10 films of all time.

Full film on Archive.org.

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On This Day in New York City History January 14, 1957: Famed and beloved actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) better known to many as "Bogie" passes away at the age of 57.

Bogart was born on Christmas day 1899 in New York City in an affluent family whose roots harked back to New York’s first Dutch colonial settlers (Bogaerts.) Bogart grew up in NYC Upper West Side on 103rd Street.

While his family wanted Bogart to succeed in schooling, poor grades and indifference to schooling, Bogart enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in World War I. Upon his return, Bogart turned his sights to acting. As the saying goes: the rest is history. Finding success on the stage, Bogart would start slowly in movies. Reprising the role of Duke Mantee in the movie The Petrified Forest in 1935 (Bogart starred in the play version.) Bogart would be recognized in Hollywood. Bogart star would definitely shine in the 1940s and 1950s.

Not many leading actors can brag about a win streak of such movies as High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon (1941) All Through the Night, Across the Pacific and Casablanca (1942.) To Have and Have Not with a young Lauren Bacall (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) The Treasure of Sierra Madre and Key Largo (1948.) The Oscar winning performance in The African Queen (1951) Sabrina and the Caine Mutiny (1954.)

Bogart, who was a heavy smoker, died of esophageal cancer

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Early & Late 1930s Crime Film

Early 1930s Crime Film (1936): "The Petrified Forest"

We are going to look at Humphrey Bogart In "The Petrified Forest," Bogart plays Duke Mantee, a ruthless criminal and gang leader. He portrays a classic tough and menacing character.

Late 1930s Crime Film (1939): "Dark Victory"

In "Dark Victory," Bogart takes on a different role as Michael O'Leary, a compassionate stablehand. This is a significant departure from his earlier gangster roles.

In the early 1930s, Humphrey Bogart's role in "The Petrified Forest" epitomized the tough and menacing character commonly seen in crime films of that era. He played a ruthless criminal, which was in line with his early career roles.

However, by the late 1930s in "Dark Victory," Bogart transitioned to a more compassionate and likable character as Michael O'Leary. This shift demonstrated his versatility as an actor and showcased his ability to adapt to a wider range of roles beyond the typical crime film characters.

 BY Jordan Stewart

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Humphrey Bogart, the iconic actor of Hollywood’s golden age, continues to captivate audiences with his timeless charm and unparalleled talent. Known for his distinctive voice, smoldering gaze, and tough-guy persona, Bogart left an indelible mark on the world of cinema.

Born on December 25, 1899, in New York City, Bogart’s journey to stardom was not without its challenges. With his rugged looks and magnetic presence, he effortlessly transitioned from supporting roles to leading man status, earning critical acclaim and a loyal fan base along the way.

From his breakthrough role as Duke Mantee in “The Petrified Forest” to his unforgettable performances in classics like “Casablanca,” “The Maltese Falcon,” and “The Big Sleep,” Bogart’s on-screen presence exuded charisma and authenticity. His ability to effortlessly embody complex characters, especially those with a dark and brooding nature, cemented his status as a Hollywood legend.

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 Humphrey Bogart had his breakthrough part, reprising his stage role of Duke Mantee, even though the studio wanted to replace him with Edward G. Robinson until Howard intervened.

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Humphrey Bogart

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Desperado Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart) apprises the assembled hostages of exactly what they should, and should not, do. Plenty of Sitting Down should transpire. Dept.of Being Quiet: affirmative. Listening to the music is not only allowed, but encouraged. Making wrong moves.....not so much. From The Petrified Forest (1936). Erstwhile circus performer Charley Grapewin has a nice turn as Gramp Maple.

Alan Squier (Leslie Howard), disenchanted sophisticate, in making his inexorable way to the summit of disillusionment/world-weariness, finds suddenly a pressing need to become unseated. Less than overjoyed with this (and after issuing a turbo-powered, authoritative, magisterial, canonical, epoch-defining “Sit Down, Pal.”), Duke Mantee employs rigorous deductive reasoning to surmise that Squier's varied physical positionings have little, if any, effect on his speaking capabilities. Howard and Bogart are both brilliant throughout; this film was a breakthrough for the then virtually unknown Bogart, and it was Leslie Howard’s insistence that made it all happen.

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is it wrong for me to wish that Return of Doctor X was more popular and Bogart did more horror .... because honestly he's really good in it as far as getting into character goes.

the most correct opinion possible, thank you

[ramisxbogart88]

my ramgart Playlist

Here’s a playlist I made about my OTP Humphrey Bogart x Harold Ramis AKA Ramgart I hope you enjoy it ramgart fans

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i am once again thinking about gugu mbatha-raw and tom hiddleston in a remake/revival of the petrified forest

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Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee in THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)

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In late 1934, director Arthur Hopkins was having trouble finding an actor to play Duke Mantee, the desperate outlaw in Robert Sherwood’s new play, The Petrified Forest.

One day I stopped in at the Golden Theater, where a quick failure was just expiring. Between the ticket door and the stage at the Golden there is a curtain that shuts off the stage. While still behind the curtain I heard a dry, tired voice. Instantly I knew that it was the voice of Duke Mantee.

When I saw the actor I was somewhat taken aback, for he was one I had never much admired. He was an antiquated juvenile who had spent most of his stage life in white pants, swinging a tennis racket. He seemed as far from the cold-blooded killer as one could get, but the voice persisted, and the voice was Mantee’s. So I engaged him, and thus started the catapulting career of Humphrey Bogart.

Photo: Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee in the stage production of The Petrified Forest, 1935. Vandamm via MCNY Text: Broadway Anecdotes, edited by Peter Hay (Oxford Univ. Press 1989)

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The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest (1936) starring Leslie Howard , Bette Davis , Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart Synopsis of The Petrified Forest In The Petrified Forest, Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart stars as Duke Mantee, an escaped convict who holds customers hostage at a remote desert diner. (more…)