Harem Hall of Fame - Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

My first experience with Humphrey Bogart was when I was young and naive. My mom had quite the collection of black & white movies and one that she watched quite often was "Sabrina." Now, I'm sad to admit that, at the time, I merely scoffed and left the room when she would put dear old Bogie on the tv screen. It wasn't until years later when I was home sick for the flu for several days and had gone through all our other movies that desperation hit and I started on the B&W collection.

I fell in love with Bogie that day.

"Sabrina" had been the movie to be popped in and I immediately zeroed in on Linus Larrabee, not even giving David Larrabee (played by William Holden) a second look. It was no contest; Bogie stole your attention with his charisma the second he was on screen.

Harem Hall of Fame - Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck.

The first movie I remember watching him in was Guns of Navarone (way, way, way after it was released in the theaters mind you) and thinking, wow, he's cool. The cool went to striking to omfg the charisma of that man jumps out of the screen and grabs you even when he is a reserved Southern lawyer trying to raise to children in the 1930s (To Kill a Mockinbird - one of my all time favs, both book and movie). There is just something about Peck, in my opinion, that personifies the strong silent type of his generation.