He was totally unflappable… “Couldn’t phase him” as they say. Because once I went to a party at the Bogart’s house and Humphrey was in Africa, I think, making a film with John Huston. I think the African Queen but I’m not entirely certain… Whatever it was, he wasn’t there… And I had dinner with Betty Bogart, she was then known Betty Bacall, Lauren Bacall, and my wife Sybil and Emlyn Williams.. and perhaps twenty other people. And I became absolutely paralyzed with drink, absolutely fractured. And I finally passed out and they put me on a settee and abandoned me. So Emlyn went home with Sibyl and I was left, the party finally disintegrated… And I woke in the morning [and] standing there was one of the biggest gossips in Hollywood. …There I was at, shall we say, 9:30 in the morning, Bogie being in Sicily or Africa, Betty being upstairs, there I was. What was i doing there? So naturally the word spread around from this lady and the columnists picked it up… I said to Lauren Bacall “You better write to Bogie and explain that I did it again” or something like that… So anyway, it dissolved as they say in the business and I was in London and Humphrey Bogart had come back from wherever he was and they were all staying at the Dorchester and Lauren Bacall was there as well. And so I went to meet Bogie… Lauren Bacall can be very wicked, said “Get into his pajamas”… So she got his pajamas out and I got into Bogie’s pajamas and I was sitting there.. And Bogie came home from work and he passed me, he said “Hi kid”, went into the next room. I felt such a fool he hadn’t said anything. Bogie came back in - a joke has never fallen flatter in all its life. And finally I had to say, “Bogie I’m wearing your pajamas” and he said “Ah, so you are kid. Take ‘em off”.
Richard Burton