Humphrey Bogart stage name, but Bogart declined it. The film version of "The Petrified Forest" was released in 1936, and Bogart's performance was called "brilliant", "compelling", and "superb". The film was highly successful, earning $500,000 at the box office, and making Bogart a star. He never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 named his only daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" after Howard, who had died in World War II when a civilian plane he was flying in was shot down under mysterious circumstances. Robert E. Sherwood remained a close friend of Bogart's. Despite his success in "The Petrified Forest," an "A movie", Bogart
Elizabeth Bogart Bogart was born in New York City in 1795. Her father, Reverend David Schuyler Bogart, was a Columbia College graduate and Presbyterian minister with Huguenot heritage whose family had been in New York for generations. Bogart grew up in and received her education in Southampton, which at that time was an isolated town on the eastern part of Long Island. In 1813 the family moved to Hempstead Harbor, eighty miles west. It was there she began writing and later submitting her writing to publications. In 1825, her poem "Stanzas" was published in the "Long Island Star" under the pen name