By Frank Worth

Humphrey Bogart in surgeon’s gear with June Allyson

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

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 Ella Geisman, June Allyson (1917-2006) was a Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress.

She was a very popular motion picture star in the 1940s and 1950s and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy Too Young To Kiss in 1951.

She starred in musicals such as Best Foot Forward, Two Sisters from Boston and Good News. She also played straight roles such as Constance in The Three Musketeers, the tomboy Jo March in Little Women and Glenn Miller's wife in The Glenn Miller Story.

In later years she appeared on television in The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, June Allyson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1537 Vine Street.