Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart at a party, 1951 (Image: Getty)
Squinting through narrowed eyes beneath a fedora, a cigarette hanging from his thin lips, his world-weary expression forged by hard liquor and hard-bitten women in smoke-filled bars, Humphrey Bogart was Hollywood’s iconic tough guy.
In classic movies from The Maltese Falcon to Casablanca, and The Big Sleep to The African Queen, he embodied the tough, cynical American who men wanted to emulate and women found irresistible. So when his
Little House on the Prairie’s leading man Michael Landon may have portrayed a wholesome family man on screen, but in reality the actor was ‘more mad, bad, and dangerous to know’, according to a former co-star.
Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson in the hit 1970s show, said although she thought Landon was a ‘marvelous’ person, he was also ‘manic’, ‘drank, smoked’ told ‘terrible jokes’ and propagated a ‘Mad Men’ sexist and booze-drinking culture on set.
The 59-year-old actress spoke
