Here's Looking at . . . Global Icons...; Licensing Firm Signs the "Greatest Actor of All Time" Humphrey Bogart.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 2, 2000 The Academy Award-winning actor Humphrey Bogart, named "Greatest Actor of All-Time" and "Greatest Male Star of All-Time," by Entertainment Weekly magazine and the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase respectively, has been signed by licensing and merchandising firm Global Icons (www.globalicons.com), announced Jeff Lotman, Global Icons' CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , whose rapidly, but selectively, growing client roster includes some two dozen Hollywood stars, as well as the Hollywood Sign and the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by . "Humphrey Bogart is without a doubt the most popular male actor in Hollywood history," said Lotman. "His still growing universal appeal makes him one of the most valuable licensing icons in an ever wider range of services, merchandising and marketing opportunities." Humphrey DeForest de·for·est tr.v. de·for·est·ed, de·for·est·ing, de·for·ests To cut down and clear away the trees or forests from. de·for Bogart ("Bogie bo·gie 1 also bo·gy n. pl. bo·gies 1. One of several wheels or supporting and aligning rollers inside the tread of a tractor or tank. 2. ") was born in 1899, the son of a Manhattan surgeon and a magazine illustrator. The young Bogart went from prep school to the US Navy, during World War I, to managing a New York stage company, where he launched his acting career, appearing in Broadway productions and playing bit roles in films. In 1936, Bogart got his big break in The Petrified Forest, starring opposite Leslie Howard, in an acclaimed performance that landed him a Warner Brothers contract. America quickly fell in love with "Bogie," whose aura of toughness and smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. sexuality, won him three Oscar nominations and the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of detectives, gangsters, night club owners or solders. As one of Holly-wood's leading men, he made 72 films, including classics High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, The Maltese Falcon, The though he rejects large bribe, detective becomes involved in crime. [Am. Lit.: The Maltese Falcon, Magill I, 551–553] See : Bribery Big Sleep (with co-star Lauren Bacall), The Caine Mutiny, Key Largo, the academy award-nominated Casablanca, and his Oscar winning African Queen. Bogart died of throat cancer in 1957. Global Icons is a unique licensing and merchandising company specializing in promoting classic celebrity and entertainment properties. The company's mission is to successfully market clients as powerful commercial and cultural brands. Global Icons' clients include the recently acquired The Three Stooges(R) The Hollywood Sign and Hollywood Walk of Fame, Genius Products (Baby Genius), Stan Lee Media Stan Lee Media (SLM) was an Internet-based creation, production and marketing company that created branded super hero franchises for applications in all media. Its 165 man animation production studio was based in Los Angeles, California from 1998- 2001. , George Burns and Gracie Allen, Milton Berle, W.C. Fields, James Cagney, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Burt Lancaster, Carole Lombard, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Natalie Wood, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Visit: www.globalicons.com. |
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