Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

==== Final roles ====
[[File:Sabrina8.jpg|thumb|right|upright|With Audrey Hepburn in ''Sabrina'' trailer]]

For ''[[Sabrina (1954 film)|Sabrina]]'' (1954), [[Billy Wilder]] wanted [[Cary Grant]] for the older male lead but chose Bogart to play the conservative brother who competes with his younger, playboy sibling ([[William Holden]]) for the affection of the Cinderella-like Sabrina ([[Audrey Hepburn]]). Although Bogart was lukewarm about the part, he agreed to it on a handshake with Wilder without a finished script but with the director's assurance that he would take good care of Bogart during filming.<ref name=Meyers_p281>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=281.}}</ref> The actor, however, got along poorly with his director and co-stars; he complained about the script's last-minute drafting and delivery, and accused Wilder of favoring Hepburn and Holden on and off the set. Wilder was the opposite of Bogart's ideal director (John Huston) in style and personality; Bogart complained to the press that Wilder was "overbearing" and "is [a] kind of [[Prussia]]n German with a riding crop. He is the type of director I don't like to work with&nbsp;... the picture is a crock of crap. I got sick and tired of who gets Sabrina."<ref name=Meyers_p283>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=283.}}</ref> Wilder later said, "We parted as enemies but finally made up." Despite the acrimony, the film was successful; according to a review in ''The New York Times'', Bogart was "incredibly adroit&nbsp;... the skill with which this old rock-ribbed actor blends the gags and such duplicities with a manly manner of melting is one of the incalculable joys of the show".<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 495.</ref>

[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]'s ''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]'' (1954) was filmed in [[Rome]]. In this Hollywood backstory, Bogart is a broken-down man, a cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a [[flamenco]] dancer modeled on [[Rita Hayworth]]. He was uneasy with [[Ava Gardner]] in the female lead; she had just broken up with his [[Rat Pack]] buddy [[Frank Sinatra]], and Bogart was annoyed by her inexperienced performance. The actor was generally praised as the film's strongest part.<ref name=Meyers_p288-290>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=288–290.}}</ref> During filming and while Bacall was home, Bogart resumed his discreet affair with [[Verita Bouvaire-Thompson]] (his long-time studio assistant, whom he drank with and took sailing). When Bacall found them together, she extracted an expensive shopping spree from her husband; the three traveled together after the shooting.<ref name=Meyers_p291-292>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=291–292.}}</ref>

Bogart could be generous with actors, particularly those who were blacklisted, down on their luck or having personal problems. During the filming of the [[Edward Dmytryk]]–directed ''[[The Left Hand of God]]'' (1955), he noticed his co-star [[Gene Tierney]] having a hard time remembering her lines and behaving oddly; he coached her, feeding Tierney her lines. Familiar with mental illness because of his sister's bouts of depression, Bogart encouraged Tierney to seek treatment.<ref>"Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait". ''The Biography Channel''. Airdate: March 26, 1999.</ref><ref>Tierney and Herskowitz 1978, pp. 164–165.</ref> He also stood behind [[Joan Bennett]] and insisted on her as his co-star in [[Michael Curtiz]]'s ''[[We're No Angels (1955 film)|We're No Angels]]'' (1955) when a scandal made her ''[[persona non grata]]'' with studio head Jack Warner.<ref>Meyers 1997, p. 294.</ref>

Bogart had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer when shooting ''[[The Harder They Fall (1956 film)|The Harder They Fall]]'', a boxing drama with [[Rod Steiger]] in a supporting role. Steiger later mentioned Bogart's courage and geniality during his final performance:

<blockquote>Bogey and I got on very well. Unlike some other stars, when they had closeups, you might have been relegated to a two-shot, or cut out altogether. Bogey didn't play those games. He was a professional and had tremendous authority. He'd come in exactly at 9 a.m. and leave at precisely 6 p.m. I remember once walking to lunch in between takes and seeing Bogey on the lot. I shouldn't have because his work was finished for the day. I asked him why he was still on the lot, and he said, "They want to shoot some retakes of my closeups because my eyes are too watery". A little while later, after the film, somebody came up to me with word of Bogey's death. Then it struck me. His eyes were watery because he was in pain with the cancer. I thought: "How dumb can you be, Rodney"!{{Sfn|Fantle|Johnson|2009|p=140}}</blockquote>