Classic film fans were treated to a big-screen viewing of the “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” Saturday afternoon at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart. The movie kicks off a monthlong series of Free Film weekends, sponsored by the Lyric and the city of Stuart Community Redevelopment Agency.

Director John Huston’s Oscar-winning 1948 classic about two down-on-their-luck prospectors (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) looking for gold in Mexico in 1920s, was screened for free at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. After, Stephen Bogart, son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, held a question-and-answer session with the capacity crowd about his famous parents.

Bogart said his father was reluctant to take on the role of paranoid prospector “Fred C. Dobbs” because he saw it was secondary to the role of “Howard,” played by Walter Huston, John Huston’s father. His agent reminded him of his long friendship with the director, and that persuaded him to take the part. Walter Huston went on to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and John Huston won Best Director and Best Screenplay.

During the brief Q&A session after, Bogart pointed out cameos made by John Huston and a very young Robert Blake. Someone asked him to name his father’s favorite movie.

“I can’t answer that, but I do know mine was ‘To Have and Have Not,’ he said. “Because that’s when he met my mother, and I would not be here otherwise.”

Of the age difference (Bacall was 19 when she met Bogart, then 44), her son said times were different then.

“Nowadays people would have had him strung up,” he said. “But at 19 my mother was not 19,” he said. “She was really 40 at 19. Very sophisticated.”

She’s 86 now, in good health, and dotes on her papillon Sophie, he said.

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Movies which feature smoking are to be given an 18 certificate by a council for the first time.

As part of a campaign to tackle addiction, officials in Plymouth have drawn up proposals to prevent children seeing films which show actors lighting up.

The local authority has the power to change certificates for films shown in its area.

The move would mean classics such as Casablanca – in which Humphrey Bogart always has a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth – being screened with an 18 certificate.

NHS figures show 27% of adults smoke in Plymouth – compared to a national figure of 21% – and 63% of under-16s have tried cigs. In deprived areas, 54% of adults smoke.

Russ Moody, manager of Plymouth NHS Stop Smoking Service, said: “This is about shaping the culture that surrounds the use of tobacco. The driving force is the protection of young people.”

The question is a simple one, but it takes Stephen Bogart a while to answer: Which character of the many that his father, Humphrey, played was closest to his actual personality?

“Ummm, he had a little of Rick in him from Casablanca. A little of the guy he played in Sabrina. A little of Charlie Allnut in The African Queen. He had a good sense of humor, but he was serious about his work. He was a chess player, and he was smart. But he was also a man of the people, not a snob or anything like that. He made a lot of money and had a nice house, but there was no entourage. He liked practical jokes.

“In thinking about it, I think maybe Charlie Allnut was the closest to his character.”

On the phone from his home in Naples, Stephen Bogart sounds like his father, and photographs show that you could also pick him out of a lineup as the son of Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He’ll be presenting two screenings of Casablanca at the Lyric Theatre in Stuart on Sunday.

Stephen Bogart was only 8 years old when his father died of cancer in 1957. It must have been exceedingly strange to go through life carrying vague memories of a father who’s a legend but who he didn’t know all that well. Did Bogart ever have a heart-to-heart with JFK Jr.?

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Christian Dior’s spring/summer show channelled a 1940s Lauren Bacall with lilac eyes and red lips and women can use the latest make-up shades to emulate this look.

Kate Shapland, writing for the Telegraph, described the look as “unashamedly feminine” and said that it marked a “joyous return to colour in make-up” with “proper lip and eye paint”.

She said that sherbet shades should be used sparingly, recommending that women just apply “a wash over the lids”.

Women should opt for brown, grey or coloured mascara with these hues, but never black, according to Ms Shapland.

Purples and mauves are good for blue eyes, while green and brown eyes are accented nicely by blue shades with lilac undertones.

Meanwhile, chocolate colours have also been identified as a top trend for the spring and the Daily Mail suggested women inject this sweet hue into their look with nail varnish.

It recommended Avon’s Nailwear Pro Nail Enamel Deluxe Chocolate.

Hi, this site has a new owner. Expect changes!

To start off the gallery (I have tons of cinema footage to add so keep checking back later for that!), I have uploaded some photos of Betty and Bogie at home with Leslie and Steve, on the Santana, from their wedding and other miscellaneous photos. I have also uploaded a photo of Betty and Bogie either before or after protesting at the House Un-American Activities Committee, they both eventually succumbed to pressure and distanced themselves from the Hollywood Ten in a March 1948 Photoplay Magazine article penned by Betty entitled “I’m No Communist“.

March 2 marks the 69th Anniversary of the opening of the American Theatre Wing’s popular World War II nightclub, the Stage Door Canteen. Started in March 1942 in the basement of the 44th Street Theatre (between 7th and 8th Avenues) in New York by the American Theatre Wing and staffed by a cadre of Broadway performers volunteering their time, the Stage Door Canteen was a place where military personnel came to dance, eat, and hobnob with the stars of Broadway and Hollywood; admission and refreshments were free for anyone in military uniform. Among the many stalwarts of the Canteen were: Lauren Bacall, who volunteered on Monday nights; actress Helen Hayes who served sandwiches; and actors Alfred Lunt and Sam Jaffe, who worked as busboys.

Lauren volunteered at the Stage Door Canteen on Monday nights when she was working as a theater usher back in the early forties. There is a photo of her working there in “By Myself and Then Some“.

Hello and welcome to BogieandBacall.org, my little spot on the internet dedicated to my favorite couple ever: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall! You may know of my love for Lauren from my site but that site has now merged with this site to become one large archive for Bogie and Lauren. I will be emailing affiliates soon, after I readd the content so please bear with me if things look a little wonky. Thanks for visiting!