# Humphrey Bogart

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humphrey-bogart/260330>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 18, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humphrey-bogart/260330 "2004-08-18T01:24:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humphrey-bogart/260330/21 "2004-08-19T00:49:32Z")

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> [@Bryan Ekers](#):
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> Garbo may have been self-conscious about her feet, and there were rumours about their gargantuan size, but she was actually 7AA which is not at all unusual for a woman of her height.

David Niven, in his Hollywood memoir _Bring on the Empty Horses_, claimed that Garbo liked to wear comfortable, loose, sneakers under her costumes where they wouldn’t be seen onscreen. This may have been the origin of her phantom “big feet”.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humphrey-bogart/260330/22 "2004-08-19T04:45:01Z")

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Snopes is right about actors in the U.S. armed services. I can’t think of a single incidence of a [Hollywood actor who was in service in World War II](http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/military/actors_in_wwii.html) who was given leave to make a Hollywood feature unless in that feature he was portraying someone in the U.S. armed forces. That alone would have ruled out Ronald Reagan for the picture, as he was an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve at the time.

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