The Private Dirk Bogarde - Part 1 (2001)

[Music] [Music] in 1986 Dirk Bogarde burned most of his private papers and scrapbooks in a bonfire at his house in the South of France he consigned to the flames not just the records of his film career but also his wartime Diaries his letters and other evidence of a life which was in crucial respects very different to the one he presents in his seven volumes of autobiography until his death in 1999 at the age of 78 Bogart controlled all information given to the public about himself and his own family were unable to speak openly about him [Music] he always refused to discuss his private life and he guarded it fiercely against any intrusion [Music] but some material did survive the flames including 12 cans of 16 millimeter film shot by Anthony forward the man whom Bogart lived with for over 40 years this remarkable film has never been seen before for the first time it is possible to construct a clear account of BOE guards life than his own highly edited version [Music] I'm not a liar I've never cheated an audience in my life I hope I've never cheated a writer a reader of any book I've ever written I've never cheated you're always found out if you cheat I had to do those things you had to go along with absorb part of the pattern of selling the product and the product was me in an age before television Dirk Bogarde was known as the Idol of the audience he was the archetypal screen lover with the leading lady always on his arm but the ever youthful Bogart who made more than sixty films later claimed that he hated being a star and that the happiest period in his life had been his childhood our father drove the OM into a very small chalk quarry where it lived just at the bottom of the long path up to the garden and loaded with the baskets and hampers and rugs and stove we clambered up under the big Elms to the wooden gate and then through the vegetable garden smelling warm in the early dusk sometimes there were glow worms glinting greenish Li in the long grass and slow snails sliding gently across the path in the light of the torch being me is being allowed to be the person I always was and the person I was was actually comes back to the fundamentals of my first book of that child in the meadow doing what he bloody will wanted to do and that and having that innocence again having that freedom again having that the the possibility of life before you to exist as simply and as happily as I wish to go back to retrogress 29:26 yes my sister was behind me having scrambled painfully through the elder branches wintering from time to time why do we have to get her but dawn to look for him because it's the best time to find them that's why to find tortoises just coughed rubbing a wet a wretched knees you think you'd been hunting them all your life and you haven't she continued because they come from Africa and you've never been there lovely isn't that charming garden duck sister Elizabeth hadn't seen that childhood cottage since the early 1930s until this visit with her son Dirk's nephew mark isn't it but that was all open so you could see that cop yes yes Bogart was born in 1921 and christened Derek Niven van den Bogart his father Ulrich came from a well-to-do Belgian family his sister Elizabeth nicknamed Lou was two years younger that was my bedroom really yep that was one min daddy's and that was nannies how amazing darris lolly here is your book I do hope you will like it do remember it is not what we really did it's just remembering the happy years we had with you at the cottage thank you for such a wonderful happy childhood which you gave Lew and me we have never forgotten it this is the proof with love Doug Molly why do you think he dedicated the book to you what'll be it was a thank you for all the happy years we had together Lou Durkin and and myself and they did have a happy childhood we all got on so well together and I think it is that they realized somebody loved them and that was the great thing lolly is now 90 years old she was just 16 when she was given sole charge of Elizabeth and Dirk they were lovely natural children sunl they were no trouble at all and they got on famously together with sort of you know I suppose we spoke the same language I suppose that was the age made an awful lot of difference I used to get up in the morning and Dirk and Lou would go down to the farm to get the milk for breakfast we didn't have any toilets you went into a sort of shed place and there was just there was three little seats along there and then underneath there were buckets it was quite primitive like that but I mean that was the country woods looks as if it's sunshine all the time doesn't it that's my mother and father walking up to the cottage and mummy and I dare country's umbrella we were out all the time it spent a lot of time the garden seemed to go off you know down to the village or that sort of thing we had a wonderful childhood we had lovely time the van den Bogart family home was in the London suburb of Twickenham and the cottage in Sussex was actually a holiday house rented by their father the atmosphere at home was not always easy and Dirk and his sister spent more time with lolly than they did with their parents their mother Margaret was a flamboyant Scottish ex actress who gave up a promising stage career to marry their father and consult herself by drinking their father Ulrich spent his entire professional life as the art editor of The Times he'd been badly shell-shocked in the First World War and was often depressed and withdrawn in 1933 Doug's family life was complicated even further he reacted to my birth with some dismay and I think loathing probably the loathing came later but certainly initially with terrible dismay simply because he was also sent away to Scotland at the same time because I think my mother thought it was too much for her really to have my sister and he and growing up and and a new baby will be at 12 nearly 13 years apart and so he got sent off and he never really ever forgave me for it in 1934 at the age of 13 Dirk was sent to live with his mother's sister and her husband in a suburb of Glasgow called Bishop Briggs he was only allowed south in the holidays and for the three years he spent there he was almost permanently miserable he loathed his aunt and uncle and 40 years later he took his revenge by writing a wicked account of them in his first book I have told you repeatedly about cutting your toenails said my uncle every bath time we're not made of money up here you know there's a depression on he never ever mentioned my toenails they was frequently in the bathroom on Friday night which was the allotted time of the week for my ablutions as he called them at first I've been rather surprised that he seemed to wish to brush his hair such an odd iron evening and when I once only locked the door I was firmly admonished not to do so again because how would they help but the geezer blew up or I had a fainting fit suddenly thereafter all the responsible there are no locked doors it was a great shame that it was published before my aunt and uncle had died because they definitely it wounded them terribly because he made them appear rather monstrous people and in different ways he made out that my uncle was a strong sort of slightly malicious disciplinarian even hinted at sort of unhealthy interest in him sexually which I personally think is absolute nonsense no such thing he was much kind of to my aunt but nevertheless you know she was you know overbearing and fussy in the way which he he contrasted it all with his mother's way of doing things Dirk went to a school called Allen Glen which specialized in preparing boys for professions like medicine and engineering he later said that his English accent his smart suits and suede shoes made him an obvious target with one United lunge they grabbed me and dragged me struggling in nameless terror to the lavatory at the end of the room our sussel into the cabin upended into the lavatory pan held firmly by my knees and legs while summoned as if it was from a hundred miles down the tunnel said [ __ ] pushed wet took his allowed it now neither we must wash night someone pulled the trend I thought that I drowned gasping choking vomiting like a dog on the wet slimy floor I was told that until I learned to speak correctly this would happen again my desk mate was sent to to a bench like slaves in the galleys was cold Tom he was dark thin pleasant-looking fourth round tin glasses he showed me where to hang my cape and court where my locker was where the laboratories were the classrooms I would use and where to eat her lunch if we didn't go home which neither of us did do you recognize yourself yes I think I must be Tong but I didn't have glasses in those days but I did size item for mr. after school in 1934 he was like a very surprised Epperson told me a lot about his his life and experiences until he arrived at school I made it quite clear to me that he was going back to his previous life as soon as he could go away from howling rain again but I went to her house and bishoprics really stayed with his aunt and I met his aunt and I can remember the house being a smallish house with with low ceilings and rather more modest than I had anticipated from Derek's account of his previous life in fact that prepared lot more careful and unusual because I thought I was visiting a palace [Music] just before he went to Glasgow Dirk met his paternal grandfather for the first time Amy van den Bogart had not been seen by any of the family since he disappeared in 1899 in the jungles of South America where he'd gone to collect rare wild orchids in 1931 he reappeared in Brighton he'd been earning his living as a painter of fake old masters which he sold to local pubs in exchange for drink [Music] Dirk was captivated by this exotic figure who had abandoned his previous existence and lived a life of adventure all over the world the family have never discovered where he had lived or what he had done in the intervening 30 years he specialized in faking hunting scenes and portraits of royalty like Anne of Cleves whom he told his grandson Dirk was an ancestor [Music] of course was mesmerized by I was happy to sit in a chair beside him in his smelly crowded studio looking at his stamped albums his maps of the Amazon faded and torn his pals Ville magazines and books or just listen to him talking his heavy accent about his journeys the Andes on a mule or his astonishing voyage on a sailing ship from Lima to Valparaiso but more than that he wouldn't give away and stories out of a not quite true but could be quality about which in no way diminish their denied grandfather MA was also a living link with the European side of the family these vandenberg guards lived in a small town in Belgium called Issyk em where they earned what Dirk called estates their main house Chateau vuelven HOF was occupied by the Gestapo in World War two Dirk always maintained that his family were Dutch not Belgium it's highly unlikely that he ever saw the Chateau but he managed to persuade himself and everyone else that he had you've got a message from your father to say that when you were fighting you ought to go to help relieve the family village yes which we don't know about do it no we don't know about that one did you want that too but if you think that time I make it very quick Yeah right in the war right yeah in which you fought in which I fought my father who was on the time said if you'll get near the family village do go in liberated because they've been overlooked because we're all flying up to Antwerp and so I found the family village and I went with my driver and a trump from the RAF and we drove in the Jeep and found the family village I said what I was what my name wasn't aware and a very elderly man sweet man sudden him came out of all the crowd they were so happy to be you know they were having their little liberation with the flags and so this man knelt very sweetly in kiss my hand he was my grandfather's groom so the story began of thick's and then the Burgermeister that's the mayor of the village said then we take you to the family to him great procession with a crucifix held in the front and the Burgermeister the priest all the acolytes the whole village came down to this labyrinthian room which was the family vault and there were my I suppose break I don't know how many greats grandfather and grandmother and then suddenly to my horror four men arrived with crowbars and they wrenched up great force the tomb lid sort of slid aside and it was full of champagne they'd hidden all champagne in the village from the dress in my grandfather's - were you happy we all Dirk always wanted to be an actor despite her own forted career his mother encouraged his ambitions and he later said that his own success about everything to her [Music] in his teens he was unsure about his talents and for a time he considered becoming a designer like his grandfather he was a confident artist and in 1938 he enrolled for a year at the Chelsea school of art in order to please his father who regarded the theater as insecure and ungentlemanly our extreme was the Dirk would one day succeed him as the art editor of the times his own memories of the trenches inspired many of the pictures in Dirk's only surviving sketchbook which he drew when he was appearing on stage in the West End during the Blitz February 7 1941 to his 20 say he's 20 just about to be 20 and you have random scatterings little sketches rather frightening looking Holocaust dish drawing there something deeply unpleasant happening the war interrupted duck stage career and in 1941 he was called up he bought a special notebook and began a diary in which to record his experiences this is the only volume to survive awaken by l-c are made at 7:30 had uneasy feeling inside realized with a start today I start life in the army feels sick rush about packing etc family are unnaturally cheerful me included leave the house at 8:45 rather grim wonder when I'll be back again next time I come back it'll be winter bade farewell to mother beastly reach London with Daddy at 10 say cheer Oh to him train crowded soldiers old women conscripts like self journey awful gaze out at receding country wonder if I'll die and never see London again hope not awful old [ __ ] in compartment says she'll vomit if I smoke have to stand in corridor arrived at camp bleak barren and horrible have awful supper sausages get shown to bankrupt feel life has ceased forever fall into a troubled sleep full of train journeys soldiers Far East all mixed up with pathetic glimpses of home did you actually kill anybody at all I personally physically did not kill anyone I did however I was however responsible for the death of a great many people because later one of my functions was to pick targets for bombing and it's tragic enough one of the tags I had to pick quite inadvertently was my own ancestral town of Cleaves which is in now in Germany which was then in Holland on the Dutch bonus we've dusted Dirk spent six years in the army most of it as an interpreter of aerial photographs deciphering pictures of bombing targets he was part of a mobile reconnaissance unit and because his work was secret his army records a few and far between it's hard to establish the truth about his wartime activities because he disappeared into the Maelstrom that Europe had become but for Dirk as father young men the war was certainly a turning point and he was to emerge from it a very different person as he later wrote in his books a wall finds you out significantly he burnt the rest of his wartime Diaries perhaps because they might have revealed too much about his private life [Music] he later claimed to have had several affairs with women during the war but the evidence suggests that he used these to disguise a series of relationships of a different kind this is Dirk's officers record of service army book 439 he acquired this obviously at the moment of Commission which was 1943 this is his will and here you will see dated a little later thirtieth day of May 1944 a will in which he names his father as executor but after payment of his just debts and funeral expenses he gives to his friend left tenant J Dolph fair Jones our NVR at an address in Atlanta at Wells and Fletcher and he gives him the picture in my room of the cloth tower in E and my silver ring from my left hand my goodness who is this man Jones I mean you don't give a silver ring from your left hand to someone who isn't extraordinarily significant Tony Jones I liked him awfully he very nice man he was older little elder he'd been the skipper of a I think I'm about to top it a bit and had ferried there either backwards or forwards during one of the beach landings and was very seriously shot up they had a relationship and I don't know what sort of relationship you know I suspect it was a fairly intense one they were very close for a long time and I liked him he always used to come for weekends and his naval uniform you know when they did get away there's Tony Taylor Jones John Nelson and there was another one terribly nice chap who died sadly he was in the arm gee it was during the war he knew a lot of these and I used to go on the back of their motorbikes never love at the time I didn't care tuppence what they know whether they were sleeping together or not both of me one [ __ ] and but they were all rather handsome that's they were lovely one was a schoolmaster Fe but they were um he met them in the army except the one that was in the Navy Tony Jones what was he like he was very very nice and he went on for a long time but none of them were anything to do with the theater oh that's one of things so and then he then he met Tony for wood and that was it absolutely it [Applause] Anthony forward was an aspiring actor five years older than Doug from a prosperous middle-class family early in the war he had seen Dirk on stage and had offered to become his manager they met again in 1946 and Tony repeated the offer Tony's marriage to the actress Glynis John's had recently fallen apart shortly after the birth of their baby son Gareth his meeting with Dirk quickly developed into a relationship that was more than just professional in 1948 Tony divorced Glynnis and moved to a house that Dirk had rented in Chester row for a time Dirk's teenage brother Gareth was their lodger I was aware that that his relationship with probably Tony in the in the very early days was a homosexual relationship and it didn't really mean very much to me at the time but when I lived at the house in in Chester oh I used to the housekeeper I used to give me a tray to take upstairs in the mornings they shared a room I suppose it was I became aware of it at that time didn't really bother me very much I remember Terry very well and with tremendous affection he was very kind to me we got on because I I liked cars and things like that and Tony loved cars and had had a wonderful collection of cars and in the thirties and so we always had that in common I used to get very cross if I spent too much time sitting talking to Tony about motor cars and you'd hear him whistling in the background then you come bustling in and saying what you all about what are you two talking about what's important and break it up from the very beginning Tony and Dirk kept a record of their life together in the form of photograph albums [Music] but they took great care not to publicize the nature of their relationship which at the time would have been considered illegal Tony gave up his own ambition to be an actor and devoted himself to promoting Dirk's career in 1947 rank Studios offered them a film contract and Dirk appeared in a number of conventional leading roles before the opportunity he and Tony had been waiting for arrived in 1950 [Music] if the old ballet mr.justice Fenimore in passing sentence gave this plane answer this is perhaps another illustration of the disaster caused by insufficient numbers of police I have no doubt that one of the best preventives of crime is the regular uniformed police officer on the beat the blue lamp was made to reassure the public about the recent rise in juvenile crime Derk played a homicidal young delinquent living on the wrong side of the law but protection has the man in the street against this armed threat to his life and property or it what do you got one of these in your hands people listen to scary don't you what you would have frightened I'm sure I know what I'm gonna tell you you don't know nothing you understand even as a small boy I mean oh yes he he could act the part good or bad but it it wasn't wasn't the thing that I liked Romina I'd rather and being something a light or scram they run waters it wasn't wasn't my boy the central event in the Blue Lamp was a crime which is shocking even by contemporary standards by drop then don't be a fool drop it I say I'll drop you back this thing works [Music] his character revealed a menace in Dirk that previous films hadn't explored but rank told him there were no more mixed up delinquent parts the post-war public preferred a diet of escapism and nostalgia and they proceeded to cast Dirk in a series of romantic leading roles under Tony's constant guidance his career went from strength to strength Tony was a tremendously intelligent controlling influence it was a business partnership a creative partnership a tremendous common sense partnership Tony was it was a hugely good leader in all his business affairs and really kept an eye on what was you know what Dirk was earning how it was management so on he was brilliant rank groomed dark until he became their most popular screen heartthrob [Music] must be a relief to know you haven't got to do that tonight yes it isn't away I don't understand that I have a good use to it I never have and I never will the rank publicity machine created an image which exploited what Dirk called his little boy looking for God looks he and Tony colluded in a disguise which promoted darks air of mystery and emphasized his seeming availability I don't feel like to see you again sometime rot save your place in the shelter I'll be in London at the end of the month I live at 49 man square Weston double 0:09 good better write it down I think I remember it [Music] in 1954 Dirk was given the leading role in a comedy which became one of the most successful films of the decade his performance as the lovable dr. Simon sparrow turned him overnight into ranks most bankable property now remember although it looks easy to you gentlemen I've been doing this operation for twenty years all right it's not stuffy rather delightful one time that was me typecasting I was an anesthetist the film also transformed the life of its creator an Oxford anesthetist called Richard Gordon who wrote the book in his spare time and was able to retire on the proceeds book came out and Betty box produced it as he wanted me to read on a railway journey and read it and said she wanted to make movie art and we're all girls surprised and I think we're all surprised that the movie was a enormous success same I'd say that it recovered its production costs a lot on during its premiere and Leicester Square was invaluable in his excellent playing of the button to getting the last by being the button is very difficult and all that whole movie depended on him being charming and amused and getting over laughs he shot it all at Pinewood which of course was lovely in those days it was rather like making films in a country club it was in the middle of the countryside and you go into this lovely baronial hall for lunch rather like some ancient to college or something and everyone had their table set down there it was a nice bar as a star Dirk was assigned a personal stand-in to relieve him of the tedium of the technicalities which accompanied every shot Dirk always set along here either one of the two tables here on a table for two and that's somebody joined us or Amore's with any but invariably along here and he always faced up toward the steps because he loved to see them what we used to call the three steps people coming down you would get the type that maybe a young actor of sort of doing sir you know the tie and all that bit and slowly casually come down and casually walk through the restaurant either to a table or invariably to the bar everybody knew each other in those days you know it was a studio system Betty box well Thomas they sort of had their table it was happy families and he also at times entertained along and somebody maybe visiting like Ingrid Bergman or somebody like that who is always very friendly with or on rare occasions maybe Tony you know but Tony very very rarely came to studio during the day he was too busy running his other business you know their business [Music] here we are two very bewildered people here we are two babes that are lost in the wood but we're not quite certain what's happened to us this lovely thing that sell my oldest but right from here the future looks awfully good in 1953 Dirk and Tony moved to Beal house in Buckinghamshire down the road from Pinewood famous lovers will make them figured from Adam and Eve down to Scarlett and Dan Scarlett and red they bought a 16 millimeter film camera which Tony mainly used to record their increasingly glamorous world to happy people who said on the square [Music] for the next ten years he kept a filmed diary of the life they shared together here we are with everything changed completely wandering in a new one in a wonderful land we may only just be girl and a boy but since we found such moments of joy we know for us but everything should be grand because I love affair was meant to be it's me fielded can you for me Oh we'll fast were borrowed many tears will start to brew bit after that here's our love was miles room I'm sure I could never hide that's real I get when you apply my side and when we're older they'll proudly the can wasn't eyes [Music] just a long way around the corner was a goldfish pond or a fish pond and I had a I had a goal Tisch in there called Monday I've wanted a fair on a Monday he's still there must be Friday or Saturday by now the dogs were called sigh new and bogey sign new was called that the cause Dirk had been offered a film in Hollywood called the Egyptian which he wisely turned down and so his character was called signers he named the dog after that we decided that he was my well I was called him as a young boy I was called him uncle D and he was my and then he called himself my mind or Godfather which he wasn't actually my godfather so he was always referred to his uncle Dean and would seemed to be very nice way of putting it you know that seemed to be appropriate even though he wasn't [Music] [Applause] if dirt was filming which he normally was I think my father would get up at the appropriate hour of probably 536 or something and drive dirt just you do if he was first cool which it usually was and then he might stay for a bit of brekkie or something but he'd then drive back to the house and he would deal with all the paperwork with the secretary and stuff which of the running of the house go and do that was shopping or whatever then at about four o'clock he would drive back to pick dirk up and I usually come along so then be home about six seven well six o'clock five or six and read the papers have a drink have a spotter suffer and I think that always made sure that he went to bed by 10 o'clock I think was the kind of world [Music] and at that point he was at the time of their sort of being mugged to wherever he went rather like a pop star is now [Music] Oh Tony I love you so much [Music] in the 1950s Dirk became Britain's biggest box office attraction he was voted best actor five years in a row and he acquired a huge female following it was actually a very hard working lifestyle and in life my father you know one way to another didn't stop doing what he had to do during the day and don't doing what he had to do but it yes it was you could say a charmed life my god the springtime isn't it because the deaths are out yes this is seal yeah appreciate it so I know I'm bogey sino and burger yes there right lying in the right place huh I never get bitten by that power shitty parrot Polly Polly the parrot who only actually liked her and like loathed everybody else and bit them to the bone yeah it was a rough bird it was a rough Wow I do I think it's just bitten him to the burns it's not all bad there are pop there's my pop yes there are your pots there are my part the very causes very pretty house Tony's bless his heart good of tannin him it's Gareth Gareth Ford it is isn't it yes house what nice looking boy you are there that'd be so sweet of him Oh tortoise the lovely tortoise in the garden I don't remember the tortoise now who is this mummy my mother and my father that's terror how brilliant my goodness she looks maggie playing well to camera Oh doesn't she look oh she looks like a film star oh my god they're just kissing each other jazzy looks pretty good doesn't it down now that's inside this sunroom I think isn't it in there darling that's the sit best a little sitting room next to it yeah right that's me oh how sweet bill house became a weekend retreat for visiting Hollywood stars who enjoyed its country house atmosphere and were happy to observe the privacy that Dirk and Toni expected of them legends like Ava Gardner and gene Simmons were caught by Toni's camera they're always humiliated me directly and he would introduce me as this is my little brother he's my small brother comes from the farm you know he was terribly into that so that I always felt then instantly awkward and I thought I got mud on my boots and I just felt badly dressed it was dreadfully humiliating and there was a time when he suggested I really what to call him Sir because that's how it was in the in the 19th century and somebody in that position would be redressed to survive by a younger brother I felt it was all hugely pretentious I did think it was pretentious I remember him coming down one day bill house very early days when he had discovered Old Spice it was the latest thing from America I thank God that's an incredible smell and he said and you could do with some of it I've never forgotten that I was so upset and I mean my mother was they said no you mustn't get upset he doesn't mean it I thought yes he does [Music] Dirk had already turned down several overtures from Hollywood but in 1959 he agreed to play the lead in a lavish film about the composer Franz Liszt called song without end he and Tony traveled by liner to New York and flew on to Los Angeles but they had made an unfortunate choice for Dirk's American debut he was starring in a biopic [Music] what was the first film you made in Hollywood it was the life of Franz Liszt Oh Franz Liszt he has a bio bye-bye and what was that lag is an experience hell was it really absolute hell tell us well it's awfully boring I've written all about it really but anyway I headed by France right and I thought well I've gotta go to Hollywood the money was enormous and I'd never been there and I thought well I'm nearly 40 and it's about time I went and you know could say I'd been to Hollywood did something so I went there because the script was unspeakable I mean there were lines really like hey do you know my friend this is George Sand that's her friend Chopin this is Schubert I wanna meet George laughs the point was that I had to play France with music on that damn piano I can't play Jewish uh I was given two dummy keyboards a hotel suite Kyle and I saw a Russian Jewish Manitoba Canada and the entire stack of Records all this music that he was paying in the film Hollywood in the late 50s was very far from the cozy world of Pinewood the studios demanded total obedience from their employees and they could make or break even established stars Dirk and Tony had walked into a situation over which they no longer had any control nevertheless they rented a house in West Hollywood bought a large Chevrolet and set out to make the most of this new opportunity but there were signs that not all was well with the production they flew to Vienna to shoot the film in authentic European locations it was all quite chaotic and eventually disasters we plan on miserably and then most fortunately three weeks into the disaster the director died of a heart attack in his bed only went less appalling led but just as wretchedly it is the most awful feeling to know that you've backed a loser long before he's got anywhere near the winning person one consolation was Dirk's co-star she was a beautiful ex model called Kapoor scene captor scene is the French word for an assertion in Italian it means a type of coffee drink cappuccino a cap you seen was also the name of the woman I came to love [Music] kapu scene and dirk began a peculiar courtship which was taken up by the press and captured on film by Tony I said how much I loved her how well we got on together and how I was getting on in age and there it was about time I started a family and I wanted her to share that with me would she she was one of the kind gentle kiss me but said no don't look that some obscene it is miss attends she was a very sweet person Pepsi she stayed a lot better well he thought he was in love with her well yes so he said she's very pretty isn't she Derk always relied on the discretion of his family and friends and Elizabeth often traveled with him perhaps I was useful in that respect see what I mean being his sister it was so you know I mean I had a sort of fight in all honesty I think I used to be taken on these holidays which I simply loved I'm not saying and George didn't go my husband it was usually me and he'd ring up in the morning and say Tony again attorney and I going down to nice or something tomorrow tomorrow you either come will you don't come you've got to make up your mind now and said put the receiver down and I absolutely think what am I gonna do with mark you're next you saying it's a baby then and of course I had a lovely time I think it was probably very good for dirt was gallon is a lady around I think and especially as it happens ready as I didn't mind didn't matter I had a lovely time so I think deep down I did feel that a weave it but I could be wrong I wanted to go and I loved going with Tony there was such fun to be with and it was they were heaven the holidays where there wasn't one hiccup on any of the holidays and we stayed at some colonized places [Music] [Applause] [Music] after the fiasco in Hollywood Dirk made a conscious decision to take a risk and play a villain every bit as evil as the delinquent teenager in the blue lamp [Music] he put on a pair of black leather trousers and went brazenly onto the offensive in a film which at the time was considered outrageous but has since become a cult classic that's singing at the psalm line I think he acted very well I didn't put everything he did he acted very well but camp I have to use the word camp you know not queer but camp but that was whole idea because originally it was supposed to be Marlon Brando and Frank's and that's what I think I think it was was yeah but rank owned it said no we want these two [Music] the singer got the song was shot in torremolinos in 1960 Dirk played a Mexican bandit called Anacleto who is sadistic amoral and sexually ambiguous the director Roy Baker had just made the first series of The Avengers and the film was deliberately provocative it allowed dirt to send up his own image and find a way at thirty nine of becoming a different kind of sex symbol it was also a way of challenging Hollywood at its own game [Music] Bogart had now made more than 30 films and as a star he was as productive as ever but he was determined to explore more demanding territory as an actor at the end of the 1950's his career was about to take a new direction his adoring fans were completely unprepared for Bogaerts next film in which he plays a middle-aged man who has a secret life [Music] you

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