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Born right here in NYC at the very cusp of the Fin de Siecle, Christmas Day 1899, Humphrey DeForest Bogart came from a moneyed family as the scion of an early feminist suffragette. Intended to be brought up in “proper society”, he blew his shot at Yale by tossing the headmaster into a local pond – his penchant for two fisted belligerence and a taste for strong, even “difficult” women present from an early age. “I wouldn’t give you two cents for a dame without a temper,” he once said…