Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor as the treacherous female foil. Bogart's sharp timing and facial expressions were praised by the cast and director as vital to the quick action and rapid-fire dialogue. The film was a huge hit in theaters and a major triumph for Huston. Bogart was unusually happy with it, remarking, "it is practically a masterpiece. I don't have many things I'm proud of ... but that's one". Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's "Casablanca", playing Rick Blaine, a hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner hiding from a shady past while negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French
Humphrey Cobb Humphrey Cobb Humphrey Cobb (September 5, 1899 – April 25, 1944) was an Italian-born, American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel "Paths of Glory" (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 film "Paths of Glory" by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film "San Quentin", starring Humphrey Bogart. Cobb was born in Siena, Italy. He served with the Canadian Army for three years during the First World War and fought in the Battle of Amiens. Stephen E. Tabachnick, in the Afterword to the U of Georgia Press' 1987 reprint of