Film Noir publicity photo Bogart and Bacall The Big Sleep 1945-46
by David Lee Guss
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Film Noir publicity photo Bogart and Bacall The Big Sleep 1945-46
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David Lee Guss
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"The Big Sleep" is one of the defining film noirs, staring Humphrey Bogart and his new bride Lauren Bacall. There are two versions of this film, the second added some William Faulkner (1897-1962) written repartee. Director Howard Hawks hired the Nobel Prize Winning writer when they needed each other.
Their last collaboration, "Land of the Pharaohs," was so ill received that Hawks retired from filming until he returned four years later with the classic "Rio Bravo" starring Duke Wayne and a surprising effective Dean Martin (1917-1996).
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (1899-1957) died in his sleep of throat cancer. John Huston in delivering the eulogy at the funeral said that, "He is quite irreplaceable, There will never be anybody like him."
Huston was instrumental in creating the Bogie myth starting with his first film as director, "The Maltese Falcon."
This is the New York Times take on "Falcon."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwv71mDyyLE
While most of the hard-boiled dialogue is lifted from Dashiell Hammett's (1894-1961) 1930 novel, the final line that the falcon is "the stuff that dreams are made of" was written and delivered by Bogart.
"The Big Sleep," in turn, is based on a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) in which he introduces the private detective Philip Marlowe.
Bogie had found a perfect soul mate in Betty Bacall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVLOua6E5cQ&feature=related
That is Walter Brennan hopping while carrying the suit cases at the end of Hawks' "To Have and Have Not." (1944).
In 1994 Bacall talked about Bogie to Charlie Rose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUyg0WQaYjU
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