Humphrey Bogart of the play, "a peach ... a roaring Western melodrama ... Humphrey Bogart does the best work of his career as an actor." Bogart said that the play "marked my deliverance from the ranks of the sleek, sybaritic, stiff-shirted, swallow-tailed 'smoothies' to which I seemed condemned to life." This, however, did not yet mean felt secure. Warner Bros. bought the screen rights to "The Petrified Forest". The play seemed perfect for the studio, which was famous for its socially realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures, especially for a public entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger (whom Bogart resembled) and Dutch
Jacob C. Bogart Jacob C. Bogart Jacob C. Bogart (c. 1820–?) was a ship captain and American Democratic politician from San Diego, California. Jacob Bogart was born c. 1820 in New Jersey. Captain J. C. Bogart first visited San Diego in 1834 on the ship "Black Warrior." He then served as an agent for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at La Playa area of San Diego. He says of his first visit: In 1834 it was good to see the hills about San Diego. Wild oats grew upon them to a height which reached above the head of a man on horseback. Cattle