Here’s Looking at You Kid
It’s the birthday of actor Humphrey Bogart, born in New York City (1899). He was expelled from Massachusetts’ Phillips Academy and immediately joined the Navy to fight in World War I serving as a ship’s gunner. One day, while roughhousing on the ship’s wooden stairway, he tripped and fell, and a splinter became lodged in his upper lip; the result was a scar as well as partial paralysis of the lip, resulting in the tight-set mouth and lisp that became one of his most distinctive onscreen qualities.
From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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