THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936). Directed By Archie Mayo, and starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart, and Genevieve Tobin. It was adapted from Robert E. Sherwoods stage play of the same name. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon. Originally a stage play and Warner Brothers bought the film rights and intended to cast the more bankable Edward G. Robinson as Duke; but Leslie Howard informed the studio that he would not appear in the movie version without Bogart as his co-star. (Robinson objected as well; after playing a series of gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Bullets or Ballots, he reportedly feared being typecast.) The film made Bogart a star, and he remained grateful to Howard for the rest of his life. In 1952 Bogart and Lauren Bacall named their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart in honor of Howard, who had been killed in a plane crash under controversial circumstances during World War II. The Warner Brothers sound stage on which the movie was filmed is currently the home of Conan OBriens TBS television program. A message picture.
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