I’m gonna go out on a very subjective limb and say that Bogart was very good-looking, even hot. I do tend to prefer men with long faces and dark features, and those eyebrows are a definite plus. Definitely not an average-looking man for people with conventional taste.
Photos of my father in his younger days gave me the same impression.
Evidently you can have craggy physical features (Bogart, Jagger) and still have appeal to the womenfolk. Though I think it was overdone in one of Bogart’s films (The Big Sleep, where he played Philip Marlowe and women were falling all over him, including a taxi driver and a bookstore owner).
I’m a straight man, so this is coming from a “would I like to look like this person” mindset rather than “would I like to be in a romantic relationship with this person” mindset.
Bogie has a lot of things going for him, but physical looks aren’t really one of them. But he has a physical presence that makes up for it, and makes him seem almost Bond-like, with the cool charm and charisma that makes him a leading man. The way he holds himself, and the way he carries himself. He’s one of those “ugly, but in a handsome way” faces, like Hollywood ugly. Peter Lorre or Edward G. Robinson, for example. He did look better when he was younger, but never Hollywood handsome like Brad Pitt or Cary Grant or Paul Newman.
He’s not tall, but he’s a style icon. I wish I was about a hundred and twenty pounds lighter than I am so I could pull off his style. Also, I love his acting. He wasn’t the first, but the first I am aware of where he pretty much always played himself. Like Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino. You know what you’re going to get, but he’s damn good at it anyway, and quite entertaining. I need to go watch some more Bogart movies this weekend. I’ve seen quite a few, but I also know there are plenty I haven’t seen.
That was from the book.
It is in the film. Wasn’t the bookstore woman an employee? I don’t recall them in the novel.
One must remember that the woman was driving a cab because many men were away in the armed forces.
Rosie the Riveter and Carla the Cabbie.
How is Bogart attractive?
His voice.
Well, THAT was disappointing. All but two segments are “blocked in this country.” I was really looking forward to because a) Bogart fan; b) actually read the novel a couple of months back; and c) I was friendly with Dorothy B. Hughes (the author) during the 80s and 90s, when I was a crime fiction editor and she was active in the Mystery Writers of America.
I recorded it from Comcast pay per view.
I haven’t watched it yet, or read the novel. What if Bogie really did it? :dubious:
Sorry…try here.
so how do you all feel about Dirk Bogarde?
His name is ridiculously long
Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde
but he had a great 5 year run with The Damned, Death in Venice and The Night Porter. He was the kinder and gentler Bogie.
So Mr. Bogart had a great personality, LOL?..Ugly as sin in my opinion, though I love his movies.
Some film blog deemed him the Greatest Actor of All Time. I disagree, (I think Cary Grant was; he could do it all, comedy, drama, dark and light.) Humphrey Bogart was much more one-note: tough guy, film noir, gangster…but what he did, he did extremely well. He had star quality, and you don’t need to be pretty to have that. (plus Lauren Bacall <3 … that did a lot to make him more appealing to the public, ‘such a young beautiful woman in love! So romantic!’ Beauty and the beast, she simply had to see his inner charms, lol.
Some of us do NOT think Bogart was “ugly as sin”. And it’s very insensitive of you to refer to Lauren Bacall as a beast. 
I got the hots for Cary Grant [so did my mom …] but there is something compelling about Bogart. He had a presence, a way of filling the air. He walked with a certain assuredness and held himself well. Not pretty boy handsome like Errol Flynn, but very compelling nonetheless.
Cary Grant? :dubious:
Craig Stephens got the job of Peter Gunn because he resembled Grant.
Cary Grant.
Agreed that Bogart wasn’t conventionally handsome, but he sort of acted, consistently, as if he was. Massive amounts of confidence. And it worked.
Liam Neeson is conventionally handsome though, and tall and buff (for his age) - Bogart didn’t have that going for him, but sometimes people forget how much the rest of the body counts, not just the face.
It’s more like Alan Rickman. Apart from his voice (and he looked like he was tall), there’s nothing about him that’s conventionally attractive. But man, lots of women find him very attractive.
Like Enter the Flagon said, Bogart did have a lovely voice.
I much prefer when directors do that, within reason, rather than have actors do accents they can’t reasonably do. Either recast the role or change the role.