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“You don’t do that if you don’t really love somebody.
Bogie demanded one be sewed into all of his pants - sex was a lot faster that way.'
Some of his seductions were brief affairs. But it was not always emotionally faithful.”
Bacall was 19 when she met 45-year-old Bogart on the set of their film “To Have and Have Not” in 1944.
The “Casablanca” actor was married to his third wife, Mayo Methot, at the time.
They loved to sail. It was loving, it was committed. It’s time you lean on me.’”
He died in 1957 at age 57. “They took some backlash,” Mann explains, “but it was incredibly brave of them.”
But meanwhile, in private, Bogie waffled when Bacall wanted to start a family. Porter claims she had 'a lot of lesbian affairs' and he was 'keeping score with her' - and even that they were sometimes both chased by the same women.
Joan Blondell, an on-off girlfriend of Bogart's, said: 'The zipper was invented in 1926.
She succeeded, of course, and “Bogie was definitely the love of her life,” Mann asserts, “but it wasn’t always easy.”
The actors had a lot to overcome from the start: Bacall was just 19 when she met and costarred with Bogie — already on his third marriage — in 1944’s To Have and Have Not. “He was so thin, she’d sometimes carry him over to the bathroom.” Once, Mann adds, Bogart “said, ‘I’m sorry to have to lean on you.’ And she said, ‘I love you to lean on me.
But after she contacted him to share that her beloved dog had been killed by a car, she got no sympathy. It was a happy relationship, although he conducted a long affair with his hairdresser, Verita Peterson. Bogie had bedded an estimated 1,000 women including Bergman, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich - but still feared he might be gay
He is said to have confessed to another confidante to thoughts of killing himself.
At a party he was marched upstairs by Dietrich, it is claimed, and his first attempt to seduce a young Bette Davis was interrupted when her mother threw him out of their house, calling him 'a slave to your genitalia'.
Bogart's marriage to Menken lasted only a year. They divorced and he and Bacall wed in 1945. “Bogie [was] drunker than I’d ever seen him and drunker than he’d ever be again,” she wrote.
No one has estimated this before, but it's likely Bogart slept with 1000 women, mostly at this time,' Porter said.
Bogart married his first wife, actress Helen Menken, in 1926.
The pair would often go sailing on his yacht and Thompson would even cut Bogart and Bacall’s children’s hair.
“She was part of the family in many ways.
“He was crocked,” she revealed in her memoir By Myself. In the beginning, there was a lot of nervousness,” said Mann.
In the book, Mann writes that the “Mirror Has Two Faces” actress and Stevenson “had become quite close” and “she was rarely far from his side, with Bogie somewhere in the background.”
He also insisted that her relationship with the politician was never actually physical, however “it was definitely an affair of the heart.”
Bacall and Stevenson’s friendship continued until the end of the campaign when Republican Dwight D.
Eisenhower won by a landslide in November 1952.
She was reportedly “devastated” by Stevenson’s loss and even tried to stay “in touch with him” after the election.
But it was “difficult” to keep contact and it seemed like “she was more into him than he was into her.”
While she “loved Bogie,” Mann said that Stevenson had awakened “some part of herself that she had never known before.”
Bacall eventually retreated her advances.
Mann said that when Bacall and Bogart started dating, the budding romance “terrified” Bacall.
She was fearful of the public labeling her as the “other woman” or seeing her as a “femme fatale” — despite the fact that Bogart’s marriage to Methot was “disintegrating.”
Bronx native Bogart had his trepidations as well.
“Bogie was also very concerned.
I’m going to have to find a way to either make this work or get out,’” William J. Mann, author of the new book Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair, exclusively tells Closer. “He was very upset,” Mann says.