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Gay News: A new biography of the screen legend claims that the star's fear of being gay almost drove him to suicide.
By: Nigel Robinson
Bogart in Casablanca
Bogart in Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart "feared he might be gay"
27 September 2010
The sensational claim appears in Humphrey Bogart: The Making of a Legend by Hollywood journalist Darwin Porter, extracts from which have appeared in the Daily Mail.
According to Porter, Bogart’s second marriage to actress Mary Phillips made him question his sexuality and contemplate suicide.
“If only Mary didn’t make it worse,” he is said to have told a friend. “When I can’t perform she mocks and ridicules me. I should never have married her.”
Despite his fears of being gay Bogart was known for his womanising and Porter estimates that he must have bedded 1,000 women, including Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davies and Ingrid Bergman.
He met his fourth and final wife, Lauren Bacall, on the set of To Have and to Have Not, and they remained married for thirteen years until Bogart’s death from cancer in 1957.
