Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

=== Broadway to Hollywood ===
[[File:Up the River (film poster).jpg|thumb|upright|left|200px|[[Claire Luce]] and Bogart in ''[[Up the River]]'' (1930)]]
Bogart signed a contract with the [[Fox Film]] Corporation for $750 a week (about $13,933 in 2025). There he met [[Spencer Tracy]], a Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and the two men became close friends and drinking companions. In 1930, Tracy first called him "Bogie".<ref>"letter from Bogart to [[John Huston]]," displayed in the documentary ''John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick'' (1989).</ref> Tracy made his feature film debut in his only movie with Bogart, [[John Ford]]'s early [[sound film]] ''[[Up the River]]'' (1930), in which their leading roles were as inmates. Tracy received top billing, but Bogart's picture appeared on the film's posters.<ref name=Meyers_p41>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=41.}}</ref> He was billed fourth behind Tracy, [[Claire Luce]] and [[Warren Hymer]] but his role was almost as large as Tracy's and much larger than Luce's or Hymer's. A quarter of a century later, the two men planned to make ''[[The Desperate Hours (1955 film)|The Desperate Hours]]'' together. Both insisted upon top billing, however; Tracy dropped out, and was replaced by [[Fredric March]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/arthurkennedyman00mack|url-access=registration|title=Arthur Kennedy, Man of Characters: A Stage and Cinema Biography|last1=Macksoud|first1=Meredith C.|last2=Smith|first2=Craig R.|last3=Lohrke|first3=Jackie|date=November 25, 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1384-3|language=en|pages=[https://archive.org/details/arthurkennedyman00mack/page/90 90]}}</ref>

Bogart then had a supporting role in ''[[Bad Sister (1931 film)|Bad Sister]]'' (1931) with [[Bette Davis]].<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 41.</ref> Bogart shuttled back and forth between Hollywood and the New York stage from 1930 to 1935, out of work for long periods. His parents had separated; his father died in 1934 in debt, which Bogart eventually paid off. He inherited his father's gold ring, which he wore in many of his films. At his father's deathbed, Bogart finally told him how much he loved him.<ref name=Meyers_p48>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=48.}}</ref> Bogart's second marriage was rocky; dissatisfied with his acting career, depressed and irritable, he drank heavily.<ref name="Sperber p.45">Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 45.</ref>