Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

== Early life and education ==
[[File:245 W103 St Bogie plaque jeh.JPG|thumb|alt=See caption|Plaque commemorating Bogart's birthplace, 245 W. 103rd St., [[New York City]]]]

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on [[Christmas Day]] 1899 in [[New York City]], the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart and [[Maud Humphrey]].<ref>''Ontario County Times'' birth announcement, January 10, 1900.</ref><ref>[http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/bogart2.asp Birthday of Reckoning].</ref> Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Welty Bogart (a [[Canandaigua, New York]], innkeeper) and Julia Augusta Stiles, a wealthy heiress.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/Pages/shortlist.aspx| title=Phillips Academy – Notable Alumni: Short List| website=www.andover.edu| access-date=November 1, 2016| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027205211/http://www.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/Pages/shortlist.aspx| archive-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref> The name "Bogart" derives from the Dutch surname "Bogaert", meaning "orchard".<ref name=Meyers_p5>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=5.}}</ref> "Boomgaard" in modern Dutch means "orchard"; Bogaert is a very common [[Flemish people|Flemish]] surname. Belmont and Maud married in June 1898. He was a [[Presbyterian]], of English and Dutch descent, and a descendant of [[Sarah Rapelje]] (the first female European Christian child born in [[New Netherland]]). Maud was an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]] of English heritage and a descendant of ''[[Mayflower]]'' passenger [[John Howland]]. Humphrey was raised Episcopalian but was non-practicing for most of his adult life.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051027025747/http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Humphrey_Bogart.html "The religious affiliation of Humphrey Bogart"]}}. Adherents.com. Retrieved: January 25, 2011.</ref>

The date of Bogart's birth has been disputed. Clifford McCarty wrote that [[Warner Bros.]] publicity department had altered it to January 23, 1900, "to foster the view that a man born on Christmas Day couldn't be as villainous as he appeared to be on screen".{{explain|reason=How is Dec 23 Xmas day???|date=June 2023}}<ref>McCarty, C. ''The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart''. Citadel Press (1965), p. 34. {{ISBN|0-8065-0955-4}}.</ref> The "corrected" January birth date subsequently appeared—and in some cases, remains—in many otherwise-authoritative sources.<ref>''Humphrey DeForest Bogart'' at [http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Humphrey_DeForest_Bogart.aspx "Humphrey DeForest Bogart"]. ''encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved October 30, 2014.</ref><ref>Barron, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/25/nyregion/merry-birthday-you-too-lifetimes-coping-with-ghost-christmas-present.html "And a merry birthday to you, too!; Lifetimes of coping with ghost of Christmas present"]. ''The New York Times'' archive, December 25, 2000. Retrieved: October 30, 2014.</ref> According to biographers [[Ann M. Sperber]] and [[Eric Lax]], Bogart always celebrated his birthday on December 25 and listed it on official records (including his marriage license).<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 44.</ref>

[[Lauren Bacall]] wrote in her autobiography that Bogart's birthday was always celebrated on Christmas Day, saying that he joked about being cheated out of a present every year.<ref>Bacall 1978, p. 134.</ref> Sperber and Lax noted that a birth announcement in the ''Ontario County Times'' of January 10, 1900, rules out the possibility of a January 23 birth date;<ref name="Sperber p.45" /> state and federal census records from 1900 also report a Christmas 1899 birth date.<ref>Bogart 1995, pp. 43–44.</ref> Bogart's birth record confirms he was actually born on December 25, 1899.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/5/20/how-to-research-the-vital-records-collection |title=How to Research the Vital Records Collection |publisher=NYC Department of Records & Information Services|date=May 21, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545a686fe4b059216c7cb8cc/1621610057510-DOOJ3QTJZZBMXUVOPQL1/bogart+b.c..jpg?format=750w |title=Official certificate and record of birth of Humphrey DeForest Bogart}}</ref>

[[File:Maud Humphrey from American Women, 1897 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|alt=Photo of a standing Maud Humphrey, Bogart's mother|Maud Humphrey in the 1897 book ''American Women'']]

Belmont, Bogart's father, was a [[cardiopulmonary]] surgeon. Maud was a commercial illustrator who received her art training in New York and France, including study with [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]]. She later became art director of the fashion magazine ''[[The Delineator]]'' and a militant [[suffragette]].<ref name=Meyers_p6-7>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=6–7}}.</ref> Maud used a drawing of baby Humphrey in an advertising campaign for Mellins Baby Food.<ref name=Meyers_8>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=8.}}</ref> She earned over $50,000 a year at the peak of her career – a very large sum of money at the time, and considerably more than her husband's $20,000.<ref name=Meyers_p6>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=6.}}</ref> The Bogarts lived in an [[Upper West Side]] apartment, and had a cottage on a 55-acre estate on [[Canandaigua Lake]] in upstate New York. When he was young, Bogart's group of friends at the lake would put on plays.<ref name=Meyers_p10-11>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=10–11.}}</ref>

He had two younger sisters: Frances ("Pat") and Catherine Elizabeth ("Kay").<ref name=Meyers_8 /> Bogart's parents were busy in their careers, and frequently fought. Very formal, they showed little emotion towards their children. Maud told her offspring to call her "Maud" instead of "Mother", and showed little, if any, physical affection for them. When she was pleased, she "[c]lapped you on the shoulder, almost the way a man does", Bogart recalled.<ref>Sperber & Lax, pp. 5–7.</ref> "I was brought up very unsentimentally but very straightforwardly. A kiss, in our family, was an event. Our mother and father didn't glug over my two sisters and me."<ref name=Meyers_p9-10>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=9–10.}}</ref>

Bogart was teased as a boy for his curls, tidiness, the "cute" pictures his mother had him pose for, the [[Little Lord Fauntleroy]] clothes in which she dressed him, and for his first name.<ref name="Meyers_p9">{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=9.}}</ref> He inherited from his father a tendency to needle, a fondness for fishing, a lifelong love of boating, and an attraction to strong-willed women.<ref name="Meyers_p22">{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=22.}}</ref>

Bogart attended the private Delancey School until the fifth grade and then attended the prestigious [[Trinity School (New York City)|Trinity School]].<ref>Hyams 1975, p. 12.</ref> He was an indifferent, sullen student who showed no interest in after-school activities.<ref name="Meyers_p22" /> Bogart later attended [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], a boarding school to which he was admitted based on family connections.<ref name=Meyers_p13>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=13}}</ref> Although his parents hoped that he would go on to [[Yale University]], Bogart left Phillips in 1918 after one semester (although the Phillips Academy website claims he was in the graduating class of 1920).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumni |url=https://www.andover.edu/our-community/alumni |access-date=March 6, 2023 |website=Andover {{!}} An independent and inclusive coed boarding high school |language=en-US}}</ref> He failed four out of six classes.<ref>Wallechinsky and Wallace 2005, p. 9.</ref> Several reasons have been given; according to one, he was expelled for throwing the headmaster (or a groundskeeper) into Rabbit Pond on campus. Another cited smoking, drinking, poor academic performance, and (possibly) inappropriate comments made to the staff. In a third scenario, Bogart was withdrawn by his father for failing to improve his grades. His parents were deeply disappointed in their failed plans for his future.<ref name="Meyers_p18-19">{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=18–19.}}</ref>