Humphrey Bogart "Dark Passage" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). His other significant films included "The African Queen", "The Caine Mutiny", "Sabrina" and "The Barefoot Contessa". Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "The African Queen", and was nominated for "Casablanca" and "The Caine Mutiny". Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name "Bogart" derives from the Dutch surname
Humphrey Bogart her life." Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for an encore, the film noir "The Big Sleep", based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner. Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: "Bogart can be tough without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone of contempt." The film was completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited to add new, juiced-up scenes exploiting both the box office chemistry that shone between Bogart and Bacall in "To Have and Have Not",