When Howard co-starred with Bette Davis in "The Petrified Forest" (1936) – having earlier co-starred with her in the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's book "Of Human Bondage" (1934) – he reportedly insisted that Humphrey Bogart play gangster Duke Mantee, repeating his role from the stage production. This re-launched Bogart's screen career, and the two men became lifelong friends; Bogart and Lauren Bacall later named their daughter "Leslie Howard Bogart" after him. In the same year Howard starred with Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (1936)