By Frank Worth

Humphrey Bogart clutching his Oscar accompanied by Lauren Bacall.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (1899-1957) was an Academy Award winning American actor mostly remembered today for his roles in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

His most notable films include The Petrified Forest (1936), Kid Galahad (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African Queen (1951) (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Sabrina (1954), We're No Angels (1955) and The Left Hand of God. (1955). Altogether, he appeared in 75 feature motion pictures.

He met Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944. They married in 1945 when Lauren was 20 and Bogart was 45. They made three movies together; the film noir The Big Sleep (1946), the thriller Dark Passage (1947), and John Huston's melodramatic suspense film Key Largo (1948). They remained happily married until his death in 1957.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Humphrey Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6322 Hollywood Boulevarde.

Born Betty Joan Perske in 1924, Lauren Bacall is a Golden Globe and Tony Award winning, as well as Academy Award-nominated, American film and stage actress. Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she became a fashion icon and role model for women in the late 1940s. Today, she is considered a legendary actress, partly due to the longevity of her career.

Her first film was To Have and Have Not in 1944 where she met Humphrey Bogart. They married in 1945 when Lauren was 20 and Bogart was 45. They made three movies together; the film noir The Big Sleep (1946), the thriller Dark Passage (1947), and John Huston's melodramatic suspense film Key Largo (1948). She was also cast with Gary Cooper in the adventure tale Bright Leaf (1950).

Further films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), co-starring Doris Day and Kirk Douglas, How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, Written on the Wind (1956) with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack and Designing Woman with Gregory Peck in 1957.

After spending several years in the theatre she went back to films with The Single Girl (1964) with Henry Fonda and Natalie Wood, Harper (1966) with Paul Newman and Janet Leigh, as well as Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney and Sean Connery.

In 1997, Bacall was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), for which she had already won a Golden Globe.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street.