Classic Film : Humphrey Bogart on the set of "Rope".

Humphrey Bogart on the set of "Rope".

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This pic makes me sad for two reasons:

1) Bogart never got the chance to work with James Stewart.

2) He also never got the chance to work with Alfred Hitchcock. They would've made an excellent team.

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Neat picture! I, too, wish the both of those events would have happened.

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Given the time frame and Bogart's attire, I'm guessing he stepped over from the Key Largo stage.

I've heard the Rear Window set was a big attraction on the Paramount lot during the shoot; I'd imagine the Rope one, and Hitchcock's terribly complicated ten-minute takes, drew just as many curious onlookers at Warner's.


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Always fun to see behind the scenes photos .. thanks for sharing.

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Really neat photo...even Stewart looks a bit in awe of Bogie.

It is too bad Bogart never made a movie with either Hitchcock or Stewart. But when you think of their filmographies, the opportunities were extremely limited. Very few films of either Stewart or Hitchcock had suitable roles for Bogart.

Of Hitch's films only Notorious would seem to have the kind of male lead Bogart could have filled. Similarly, of Stewart's films only the forgettable Malaya (which starred Bogart's close pal Spencer Tracy) seems viable as a Bogart role. And offhand I can't see either Hitchcock or Stewart working well in any Bogart film.

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And offhand I can't see either Hitchcock or Stewart working well in any Bogart film.
Well, Stewart might have worked well with Bogart. It's not hard to hear him utter the line
"You know how to whistle, d-don't ya Steve? You jus-just put your lips t-together and b-b-blow."

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"You know how to whistle, d-don't ya Steve? You jus-just put your lips t-together and b-b-blow."


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Of Hitch's films only Notorious would seem to have the kind of male lead Bogart could have filled.
On the other hand, two of Bogart's films (Conflict and The Two Mrs. Carrolls) bear some thematic kinship to Suspicion, Stage Fright and Dial M For Murder.


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Funny, I was thinking of The Two Mrs. Carrolls when I wrote my earlier post. But neither film was really quite right for Hitchcock material, I think. (I assume you didn't mean for Jimmy Stewart!)

But of course we also have to take into account who was working for what studio at any given time, given the dynamics of the system during the men's primes.

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Bogart left WB in 1950, if I'm mistaken. Surely he'd have more leeway to be in other films from other studios.

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It wasn't impossible for any two of the three (or all three) to have worked together, especially beginning about 1950. But when you look at the state of their careers at various points, plus the kinds of films they were making, in reality the chances for any of them working together weren't great.

For a large part of their careers Stewart and Bogart were contracted to different studios (MGM and WB, respectively), and then Stewart was away for five years serving during the war. Meanwhile Hitchcock was signed to Selznick from 1940-1947 and although he mostly loaned him out to other studios Hitch was only assigned to pictures others were producing; he had little or no say in their casts.

The fact is all three men's careers had their own trajectories, with each going off to do things he liked or specialized in. In addition by the early 50s the two actors were so big that neither would cede top billing to another actor or agree to a co-lead (as opposed to a co-star) with someone of equal stature in the industry. This didn't happen with Stewart until the 60s and even then very sporadically. Bogart didn't live long enough to reach that point again. (In fact, it was the refusal of both men to cede the top spot to the other that scuttled the proposed teaming of Bogie with his old friend, Spencer Tracy, in The Desperate Hours in 1955; Tracy dropped out and Fredric March came in.)

Also Bogie doesn't seem to have been Hitchcock's "type", and again, there weren't any Hitchcock movies that really would have offered Bogart a suitable role in the late 40s or 50s (with the possible exception of Notorious, as I mentioned, but which is just my opinion; anyway he was never considered for it).

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Bogart, I can understand not wanting to cede the top spot, but that doesn't sound like what Stewart would've done.

He looks darned great in this!

Maybe he was just too famous to fit in to Hitchcock's plots?

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Hitch looks nice and slim!
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