Humphrey Bogart, WWI, US Navy (1918-1919)

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Humphrey Bogart, WWI, US Navy (1918-1919)

Humphrey Bogart (1918-1919)

This hard-boiled actor, with an admirable anti-hero quality, had plenty of true life experience in the military to bring an authenticity to his performances in movies like Casablanca and The Caine Mutiny.

In the spring of 1918, Bogart left, or was asked to leave, prep school to serve in the U.S. Navy…

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Adolphe Menjou, WWI, US Army (1917-1919)

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Adolphe Menjou, WWI, US Army (1917-1919)

Adolphe Jean Menjou (1917-1919)

In 1906, young Menjou's father, a hotel manager, disapproved of his boy's early interest in show business and him to Culver Military Academy in Indiana for his senior year of high school in the hopes of dissuading him from such a reckless and disreputable career.  He went on to Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and returned to his early interest of stage and screen work. World War I interrupted his fledgling career and he enlisted in to the US Army Ambulance Service in June of 1917. 

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