Humphrey Bogart lived at several Los Angeles addresses across his career, and most of them are private residential properties today. That is the useful starting fact for anyone planning a Bogart-related trip in Los Angeles: what gets searched is usually a specific address, and what an address gives you in most cases is a gate, a sidewalk, and a neighborhood. A handful of publicly accessible stops do exist — a Walk of Fame star, a Forest Lawn burial site, some period neighborhood architecture — and those are worth knowing. But the productive frame for a Bogart fan outing is Los Angeles itself, not one driveway. This page separates the documented addresses from the speculation, identifies what is publicly accessible, and explains why the city context matters more than any individual gate.
The short version: Bogart's most-searched residential addresses (Benedict Canyon, Holmby Hills) are private homes not open to visitors. The genuinely public stops are his Hollywood Walk of Fame star at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard and his burial site at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Both are free and openly accessible.
The addresses fans search most
The house that appears most consistently in Bogart searches is 2707 Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills, the property where Bogart and Lauren Bacall lived after their 1945 marriage. The address is accurate and historically documented. The property is a private residential home, and it remains in private hands today. There is no public access, no marker visible from the street that designates it as a significant site, and no formal acknowledgment of the address by any historic preservation program. What you find at 2707 Benedict Canyon is a gate and a neighborhood.
The address that represents Bogart's final years is on Mapleton Drive in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles — the house where he lived with Bacall until his death in 1957. The specific address on Mapleton varies slightly across different biographical sources, and the property is again private residential. Holmby Hills is one of Los Angeles's most private residential enclaves; there is no neighborhood context that makes a visit there feel like a fan outing in any meaningful sense.
Both of these addresses are worth knowing for what they document: the geography of Bogart's life in Los Angeles, the neighborhoods he moved through, and the upward trajectory from the Benedict Canyon house to the Holmby Hills property. But knowing the address and standing on a residential sidewalk 70 years after the fact are two different things, and planning that conflates them leads to disappointing afternoons.
The publicly accessible stops
The Walk of Fame star at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard is the most accessible public marker of Bogart's presence in Los Angeles. It is on the north side of Hollywood Boulevard between Cahuenga and Vine Street, set into the sidewalk in the standard Walk of Fame format. Free, publicly accessible, photographable without restriction, and in a stretch of Hollywood that has other Walk of Fame markers and recognizable Hollywood architecture in the immediate surrounding blocks.
The burial site at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale is also publicly accessible during cemetery operating hours. Bogart is buried with a small whistle — a reference to Bacall's famous "just whistle" line from To Have and Have Not — and the grave is in the Garden of Memory section of the cemetery. Forest Lawn is a large property and the grave location is not always signposted for casual visitors; the cemetery information office can give you the specific section location. The park itself is open to the public for burial site visits.
The Huntington Library and Art Museum in San Marino has archival material related to the Leland K. Whittier Residence collection that documents some of the Holmby Hills property history, though this is archival access rather than a public exhibit. The collection is mentioned here for completeness for research-oriented visitors, not as a standard fan stop.
The Los Angeles context that actually makes sense
Bogart's career was embedded in specific Los Angeles institutions — Warner Bros. in Burbank, the studios and bars and restaurants of the late-1940s Hollywood social scene — and most of those are either private, gone, or transformed beyond recognition. What remains publicly accessible is fragmented: a sidewalk star, a grave, residential streets that happen to preserve mid-century neighborhood character that Bogart would have recognized.
The more useful frame for planning is to treat Los Angeles itself as the destination rather than any individual Bogart address. The neighborhoods where Bogart lived — Beverly Hills Canyon, Holmby Hills, the older Hollywood streets — are interesting for their architecture and social history beyond any single resident. If the trip also involves other Old Hollywood stops, studios, or film-history sites, use the Los Angeles historic hotel planner to place the overnight close to the relevant geography before planning around specific daytime stops.
When the Bogart addresses matter for a trip
The addresses matter most when the goal is biographical grounding rather than site access. If you are reading a biography, revisiting a film era, or trying to understand how Bogart's personal geography mapped onto the Hollywood of his time, knowing that 2707 Benedict Canyon was the Bacall house and that Mapleton Drive in Holmby Hills was where he died gives the reading a physical anchor. That is a real value even if you never stand in front of either property.
The trip version of that value is best expressed through the neighborhood itself. Benedict Canyon as a drive, the general Holmby Hills and Bel Air geography, the older residential streets of Beverly Hills on the hillside — these carry the era even when specific addresses are locked behind gates. A visit to the Hollywood Walk of Fame section around 6322 Hollywood Boulevard followed by the drive through the neighborhoods where Bogart lived gives more than an afternoon of standing on residential sidewalks hoping something specific is visible.
