Stephen Humphrey Bogart

{{Short description|American writer, film producer, and businessman (born 1949)}}

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| image = Bogart family April 1956.jpg

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| caption = Bogart with his mother, sister Leslie, and father

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|01|06}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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{{marriage|Dale Bogart|1969|1984|end=div}}
{{marriage|Barbara Bogart|1985|2010|end=div}}
{{marriage|Carla Soviero|2014}}

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| children = 3

| parents = Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall

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| alma_mater = University of Hartford

| occupation = Writer, producer, businessman

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| relatives = Sam Robards (half-brother), Leslie Bogart (sister)

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Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born January 6, 1949) is an American writer, producer, and businessman. He is one of the two children of actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Lauren Bacall, and authored three semi-autobiographical books about his family.

Early life

Bogart was born on January 6, 1949, in Los Angeles, California, to actress Lauren Bacall and actor Humphrey Bogart{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/09/garden/at-home-with-stephen-humphrey-bogart-here-s-looking-at-you-dad.html |title=At Home With: Stephen Humphrey Bogart; Here's Looking at You, Dad |last=Strum |first=Charles |date=9 November 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=22 May 2019}}{{cite book| last=Bacall| first=Lauren| title=By Myself and Then Some| publisher=HarperCollins| location=New York| page=190| url=https://archive.org/details/bymyselfthensome0000baca/page/190/mode/2up?q=stephen| year=2006| isbn=978-0061127915| url-access=registration}} at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.{{cite news |date=7 January 1949 |title=Lauren Bacall: Mother of Son |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31827890/new_castle_news/ |newspaper=New Castle News |access-date=22 May 2019}} Raised in the affluent Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bogart and his younger sister, Leslie, counted Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra among their neighbors and family friends.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWxdBTTzfFoC&pg=PA55| title=Westwood| last=Wanamaker| first=Marc| page=55| access-date=23 November 2020| publisher=Arcadia| year=2010| isbn=978-0738569109}}

Following his father's death in 1957, the family relocated to his father's native New York City, where Bogart's mother had purchased an apartment at The Dakota.{{cite journal |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2015/3/9/9983106/first-look-inside-lauren-bacalls-dakota-apartment-of-53-years |title=First Look Inside Lauren Bacall's Dakota Apartment of 53 Years |first=Hana R. |last=Alberts |date=9 March 2015 |website=Curbed NY}}

His half-brother is the actor Sam Robards, son of Bacall and her second husband, Jason Robards.

Bogart enrolled at the Milton Academy, where he graduated in 1967.{{cite news |last=Robertson |first=J. Greg |date=14 September 1975 |title=Stephen Humphrey Bogart Wants to Be a Howard Cosell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31827707/hartford_courant/ |newspaper=Hartford Courant}} Afterward, he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania and majored in English. He reported that he was unhappy with this, and changed to Boston University in 1969.

Bogart met his first wife, Dale Gemelli, there. The couple married in 1969 and divorced in 1984.{{cite news | date=19 September 1969 |title=Son of Bogart-Bacall, to Wed Torrington Girl |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31828223/hartford_courant/ |newspaper=Hartford Courant}} He has since married twice.{{Cite web |date=2014-09-30 |title=Stephen Bogart dishes on upcoming wedding {{!}} Page Six |url=https://pagesix.com/2014/09/30/stephen-bogart-dishes-on-upcoming-wedding/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US}}

Career

Bogart began his working career as an insurance agent, while he studied mass communications at the University of Hartford. He pursued a career in television news. At age 39, he moved from New York to become a producer for NBC's Sunday Today. Later, he took a job as an executive producer of a television news department.{{cite news | last=Epstein |first=Warren |date=20 April 1988 |title=Bogie, Bacall's Son Finds Niche in News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31828008/the_tampa_tribune/ |newspaper=The Tampa Tribune |access-date=23 May 2019}}

Bogart oversees the management of the estate of Humphrey Bogart. The business owns and manages the name, image, and likeness rights of Humphrey Bogart. The estate hosts an annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in Key Largo, Florida. The estate owns and manages Santana Films, the successor to Humphrey Bogart's company, Santana Productions. The business is also the founding partner of the Bogart Spirits liquor brand.{{cite web| url=http://humphreybogart.com/a-letter-from-stephen-bogart/| title=A Letter From Stephen Bogart}}

Bogart hosted festivals celebrating the 70th and 75th anniversary of the film Casablanca (which his father starred in) in 2012 and 2017.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/classic-movies/9094026/Casablanca-turns-70-QandA-with-Humphrey-Bogarts-son-Stephen.html |title=Casablanca Turns 70: Q&A with Humphrey Bogart's Son Stephen |last=Waters |first=Florence |date=22 February 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |access-date=22 May 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/casablanca-75th-anniversary/ |title=Here's looking at you, "Casablanca" |last= |first= |date=21 November 2017 |website= CBS News|publisher= |access-date= 22 May 2019}}

Personal life

Bogart has three adult children and currently lives in Naples, Florida.{{cite news |last=Eyman |first=Scott |date=13 February 2013 |title=He's finally comfortable being Bogart's son |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20130213/entertainment/812027329 |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post |access-date=23 May 2019 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114223251/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20130213/entertainment/812027329 |url-status=dead }} He is the brother-in-law of author and yoga master Erich Schiffmann.

Works

His books are Bogart: In Search of My Father,{{cite book |last=Bogart |first=Stephen |year=1996 |title=Bogart: In Search of My Father |publisher=Pan |isbn=978-0330346788}}{{cite news |last=Blowen |first=Michael |date=18 September 1995 |title=Bogart's son recounts a tough act to follow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31827585/the_boston_globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=22 May 2019}} Play it Again,{{cite book |last=Bogart |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2UseJ8NRukC&q=editions:AvV9qc1_RmIC |date=30 November 2012 |title=Play It Again |publisher=Untreed Reads |isbn=978-1611874877}}{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-04-09-1995099040-story.html |title="Play it Again," by Stephen Humphrey Bogart.... |last=Grace |first=Melissa |date=9 April 1995 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=23 May 2019}} and The Remake: As Time Goes By.{{cite book |last=Bogart |first=Stephen |year=1997 |title=The Remake: As Time Goes By |url=https://archive.org/details/remakeastimegoes00boga_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=Forge |isbn=978-0312856663}}