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
Which Lie Did I Tell? example of the principle that the best scene sometimes needs to be cut), "The Ghost and the Darkness" (which he uses as an example of how ego can hinder a film's production and artistic integrity) and "Absolute Power" (which he uses as an example to illustrate why a movie does not have to be faithful to the book on which it is based). Two films he does not cover are "Heat" (for legal reasons) and "The Chamber" (because it was not remotely interesting). The next part of the book has Goldman analyzing scenes from various screenplays he admires including "There's