Last week I got to sail on the actual African Queen with Bogart—Stephen Bogart, that is. The occasion was the first annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival, held in Key Largo, Florida, the setting of the 1948 Bogart-Bacall picture Key Largo. My sailing companion was Stephen Humphrey Bogart, the famous couple’s son, who hosted the festival. Much like the TCM Classic Film Festival one week earlier, this event drew movie buffs from all over the country—along with two avid fans from Sydney, Australia—to watch vintage films on a big screen, even outdoors at night, and to meet Stephen, as well as Jack Huston, the grandson of Bogie’s friend and collaborator John Huston.
Stephen has worked in…
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