What was Humphrey Bogart's character in the 1949 film 'The Big Sleep'?
"Falcon in place of Philip Marlowe; and in 1944, as ""Murder, My Sweet"", featuring Dick Powell as Marlowe and directed by Edward Dmytryk. Mitchum played Marlowe again in 1978's ""The Big Sleep"", becoming the only actor to play the character in two feature films. Actors who played Marlowe in earlier movies, include Dick Powell (1944), Humphrey Bogart (1946), Robert Montgomery (1947), George Montgomery (1947), James Garner (1969) and Elliott Gould (1973). An original motion picture vinyl soundtrack album composed by David Shire was released in 1975 by United Artists Records. The album contained 11 tracks. Track listing Farewell, My Lovely"
"not provided a quick career resurgence. ""The Big Sleep"" laid the foundation for her status as an icon of film noir. She would be strongly associated with the genre for the rest of her career, and would often be cast as variations of the independent and sultry femme fatale character of Vivian she played in the movie. As described by film scholar Joe McElhaney, ""Vivian displays an almost total command of movement and gesture. She never crawls."" Bacall was cast with Bogart in two more films. In ""Dark Passage"" (1947), another film noir, she played an enigmatic San Francisco artist."
"Marylee struggles with her brother for the weapon, but it accidentally fires, killing him. Repeatedly spurned by the man she claims to love, a spiteful Marylee threatens to implicate Mitch in Kyle's death. At the inquest, she first testifies that he killed her sibling. But she tearfully redeems herself at the last second by admitting the truth. Mitch and Lucy depart, leaving Marylee to mourn the death of her brother and run the company alone. Dorothy Malone, a brunette previously best known as the brainy bespectacled bookstore clerk in a scene with Humphrey Bogart in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), had"
"her life."" Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for an encore, the film noir ""The Big Sleep"", based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner. Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: ""Bogart can be tough without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone of contempt."" The film was completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited to add new, juiced-up scenes exploiting both the box office chemistry that shone between Bogart and Bacall in ""To Have and Have Not"","
"about having to do so, he delivered a strong performance in the lead, earning him his final Oscar nomination as well as being the subject of the cover story in the June 7, 1954 issue of ""TIME"". Yet for all his success, Bogart was still his melancholy old self, grumbling and feuding with the studio, while his health was beginning to deteriorate. The character of Queeg mirrored in some ways those Bogart had played in ""The Maltese Falcon"", ""Casablanca"" and ""The Big Sleep""–the wary loner who trusts no one—but without either the warmth or humor of those roles. Like his"
"invented a new solar system outside our own. Shortly after Brackett broke into science fiction writing, she wrote her first screenplays. Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by her novel ""No Good from a Corpse"" that he had his secretary call in ""this guy Brackett"" to help William Faulkner write the script for ""The Big Sleep"" (1946). The film was written by Brackett, William Faulkner, and Jules Furthman, and starred Humphrey Bogart. It is considered one of the best movies ever made in the genre. After getting married, Brackett took a long break from screenwriting. When she returned to"
"film star Ruth Chatterton; both he and Chatterton were highly praised. He performed alongside his son, Charles Belasco Jr., in the latter's debut in ""Lucrece"" c. 1932. Over his long career, he appeared in more than 60 films, starting with the silent film ""Big Horse Hank"" (1911). He is perhaps best known for his final film role, that of General Sternwood in the opening scenes of ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He also played U.S. President James Monroe in ""The Monroe Doctrine"", a short film released in 1939. He died, aged 71, in Hollywood, California."
"many black-and-white noirish films in supporting roles alongside more handsome and popular movie leads, such as John Garfield in ""Body and Soul"" (1947) and Humphrey Bogart in ""In a Lonely Place"" (1950). He had a key role as a federal agent in 1947's ""Ride the Pink Horse"", starring and directed by Robert Montgomery. Two of these films, ""In a Lonely Place"" and ""Ride a Pink Horse"", were based on novels by Dorothy B. Hughes. Smith was one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist, which ended most of his film career in 1952. In 1957, he originated the role of"
"for old times' sake."" When he feigns ignorance, she persists, ""Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."" Later that night, alone with Sam, Rick demands, ""You played it for her—you can play it for me."" Sam once again resists, prompting Blaine to shout: ""If she can stand it, I can! Play it!"" Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American film and stage actor. His performances in numerous films from the Classical Hollywood era made him a cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the greatest male star of"
"The Big Shot (1942 film) The Big Shot (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), this would be the last film in which former supporting player Bogart would portray a gangster for Warner Bros. (He would play a gangster one last time in his penultimate film, ""The Desperate Hours"", distributed by Paramount.) Even though ""The Big Shot"" went into production after ""Across the Pacific"", it was released nearly"
"remained grateful to Howard for the rest of his life. In 1952, Bogart and Lauren Bacall named their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart in honor of Howard, who had been killed in a plane crash under controversial circumstances during World War II. In 1948, Robinson portrayed a character very similar to Duke—a famous gangster holding a disparate group of people hostage in a Florida hotel—in ""Key Largo"". That film's hero was played by Bogart. In his penultimate film, ""The Desperate Hours"" (1955), Bogart played another gangster holding a suburban family hostage. He described that character as ""Duke Mantee grown up."" ""The"
"Based on Raymond Chandler’s First Detective Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep 1946 with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, demonstrates the two romantic thriller elements of adventure and dual worlds. The main heroes are brought together in an attempt to save Bacall’s younger sister Vickers. The main adventure sleuth plot has the characters traveling both together and separately. In a common theme, they are from different social worlds, and wouldn’t usually mix. Romance between the two seems hopeless. Parallel to the adventure story unfolding, the romance travels its own labyrinth of truth and deception, to finally overcome issues of mistrust. The"
"three months earlier. Considered one of Bogart's lesser-known works, contemporary reviews of ""The Big Shot"" describe it as an unexceptional throwback to his earlier gangster films, most likely trying to take advantage of the success of 1941's crime drama, ""High Sierra"". It was released on DVD for the first time by Warner Archive early in 2015. The Big Shot (1942 film) The Big Shot (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as ""The"
"quite complicated, forcing him to embark on an odyssey through the urban landscape. He is involved with organized crime and other lowlifes on the ""mean streets"" of, preferably, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, or Chicago. A hard-boiled private eye has an ambivalent attitude towards the police. It is his ambition to save America and rid it of its mean elements all by himself. As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe—immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation (1946) of the novel ""The Big Sleep"" (1939)—admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to"
"Hawksian woman The ""Hawksian woman"" is, in film theory, a character archetype of the tough-talking woman, popularized in film by director Howard Hawks through his use of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Ann Dvorak, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, and Angie Dickinson. The best known Hawksian woman is probably Lauren Bacall, who iconically played the type opposite Humphrey Bogart in ""To Have and Have Not"" and ""The Big Sleep."" The archetype was first identified by film critic Naomi Wise in 1971. Major film theorists who have studied Hawksian women are Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell. The Hawksian woman is up-front in"
"dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication"" and characterizing Lauren Bacall's role as ""an adolescent cougar"". In the late 1990s, a pre-release version—director Hawks's original cut—was found in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. That version had been released to the military to play to troops in the South Pacific. Benefactors, led by American magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, raised the money to pay for its restoration, and the original version of ""The Big Sleep"" was released in art-house cinemas in 1997 for a short exhibition run, along with a comparative documentary about the cinematic and content differences between Hawks's film noir and"
"Warner Bros. wanted to cast the then much better known Edward G. Robinson for the film adaptation; however Leslie Howard, who played the protagonist in both the play and the film, insisted on Bogart being given the part. His breakthrough came in 1941 when his performances in ""High Sierra"" and ""The Maltese Falcon"" made him a star. His first true romantic lead role came in 1942's ""Casablanca"", breaking his typecasting as a gangster. He and Lauren Bacall starred together in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). After they married, she also played his love interest in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946),"
"The Big Hangover The Big Hangover is a 1950 American comedy film released by MGM. The film starred Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor and was written and directed by Norman Krasna. Supporting players include Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Leon Ames, Edgar Buchanan, Selena Royle, Gene Lockhart, and Rosemary DeCamp. ""The Big Hangover"" was one of Elizabeth Taylor's first films to feature her in an ""adult character"" role, the first being the 1949 British thriller ""Conspirator"". Despite being released with high hopes, ""The Big Hangover"" was a critical and box office disappointment. Home video releases are scarce in any format, as"
"film apparently rekindled Bogart's early love of boats. On his return to California he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout, which he kept until his death. The role of cantankerous skipper Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award in three nominations, for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951. Bogart considered his performance to be the best of his film career. He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight. He advised Claire Trevor, when she had been nominated for ""Key Largo"", to ""just say you did"
"trouble with the studios. Bogart once said: ""High Sierra"", a 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett (writer of the novel ""Little Caesar"" was based upon). Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part. The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster (only"
"the 30-minute adaptation. ""Suspense"" presented ""In a Lonely Place"" March 6, 1948. Robert Montgomery and Lurene Tuttle starred in a one-hour adaptation of the full plot. In a Lonely Place (novel) In a Lonely Place is a 1947 novel by mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes. It was made into the classic ""film noir"" under the same title starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in 1950. The novel is a ""noir"" set in post World War II Los Angeles. Dix Steele, the main character, is an ex-airman who roams the city at night. He offers to help a detective friend, Brub,"
"breakthrough in Bogart's career, transforming him from supporting player to leading man. The film contains extensive location shooting, especially in the climactic final scenes, as the authorities pursue Bogart's character, gangster ""Mad Dog"" Roy Earle, from Lone Pine up to the foot of the mountain. An aged gangster, Big Mac (Donald MacBride), is planning a robbery at a fashionable California resort hotel in the fictional resort town of Tropico Springs, California. He wants the experienced Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), just released from an eastern prison by a governor's pardon, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation."
"of Damascus"" (1952), ""Battles of Chief Pontiac"" (1952) (in the title role), ""High Noon"" (1952), ""Springfield Rifle"" (1952), ""The Black Castle"" (1952) (a return to horror), ""Raiders of the Seven Seas"" (1953), ""A Lion Is in the Streets"" (1953), ""The Boy from Oklahoma"" (1954), ""Casanova's Big Night"" (1954), ""Passion"" (1954), ""The Black Pirates"" (1954), ""Jivaro"" (1955), ""Big House, U.S.A."" (1955), ""I Died a Thousand Times"" (1955), ""The Indian Fighter"" (1955), and ""The Black Sleep"" (1956) He had a leading role in ""Indestructible Man"" (1956) then was back to support parts; ""Manfish"" (1956), a Martin and Lewis comedy, ""Pardners"" (1956); ""Daniel"
"Big Jack (film) Big Jack is a 1949 film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe, and the screenplay was written by Gene Fowler and Otto Eis from the novel by Robert Thoeren. The picture is a comedy-drama, set on the American frontier in the early 1800s, about outlaws who befriend a young doctor in legal trouble for acquiring corpses for anatomical research. This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th. He died on April 15, 1949 at age 64, three days after this movie's release. According to MGM"
"Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American film and stage actor. His performances in numerous films from the Classical Hollywood era made him a cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the greatest male star of American cinema. Bogart began acting in Broadway shows after World War I. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, he began working in films, mostly playing gangsters. He was highly praised for his work in ""The Petrified Forest"" (1936). Bogart had originated the role of Duke Mantee in the 1935 Broadway production, but"
"generally positive (in particular many critics praised Bogart and Grahame's performances), but many questioned the marketability given the bleak ending. The staff at ""Variety"" magazine in May 1950 gave the film a good review and wrote, """"In a Lonely Place"" Humphrey Bogart has a sympathetic role though cast as one always ready to mix it with his dukes. He favors the underdog; in one instance he virtually has a veteran, brandy-soaking character actor (out of work) on his very limited payroll ... Director Nicholas Ray maintains nice suspense. Bogart is excellent. Gloria Grahame, as his romance, also rates kudos"". Bosley"
"and starred Bogart and Derek in the leading roles. Louise Brooks wrote in her essay ""Humphrey and Bogey"" that she felt it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew. ""Before inertia set in, he played one fascinatingly complex character, craftily directed by Nicholas Ray, in a film whose title perfectly defined Humphrey's own isolation among people. ""In a Lonely Place"" gave him a role that he could play with complexity because the character's pride in his art, his selfishness, his drunkenness, his lack of energy stabbed with lightning strokes"
"Bogart's protagonist, with the camera seeing what his character sees. After his plastic surgery, the rest of the film is shot in the usual manner. Bogart is intent on finding the real murderer in a crime for which he was blamed and sentenced to prison. The couple next starred in the future classic, ""Key Largo"" (1948). Directed by John Huston, the film highlighted Edward G. Robinson as gangster ""Johnny Rocco,"" a seething older synthesis of many of his vicious early bad guy roles. The characters are trapped during a spectacular hurricane in a hotel owned by Bacall's screen father-in-law, played"
"in burlesque as a song-and-dance man and worked at night as an emcee in New York night clubs. He moved to Hollywood, where his large build made him suitable casting for roles as dubious characters. After 16 months of dieting and swimming, his weight dropped to 244 pounds in 1946 having lost 100 pounds. He played Vichy French Captain Renard, in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944), the adversary of Humphrey Bogart's character. In ""Key Largo"" (1948), he again played opposite Bogart as one of the henchmen of Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson). In the motion picture ""Mara Maru"" (1952),"
"(despite calling Ray's trademark sympathetic eye to rebels and criminals ""misguided"") and acclaimed Ray for ""good, realistic production and sharp direction...Mr. Ray has an eye for action details. His staging of the robbery of a bank, all seen by the lad in the pick-up car, makes a fine clip of agitating film. And his sensitive juxtaposing of his actors against highways, tourist camps and bleak motels makes for a vivid comprehension of an intimate personal drama in hopeless flight."" Ray made several more contributions to film noir, most notably the 1950 Humphrey Bogart movie ""In a Lonely Place"", about a"
"the pilot of a Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. During the war years, Albert returned to films, starring in ones such as ""The Great Mr. Nobody"", ""Lady Bodyguard"", and ""Ladies' Day"", as well as reuniting with Reagan and Wyman for ""An Angel from Texas"" and co-starring with Humphrey Bogart in ""The Wagons Roll at Night"". After the war, he resumed appearing in leading roles, including 1947's ""Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman"", opposite Susan Hayward. From 1948 on, Albert guest-starred"
"Elisha Cook Jr. Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American stage, film and television character actor who often specialized in roles as ""cowardly villains and neurotics."" He is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of Wilmer in the 1941 version of ""The Maltese Falcon"" and the futile efforts made by his character to intimidate Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in the film. Cook's acting career spanned more than 60 years, with roles in productions such as ""The Big Sleep"", ""Shane"", ""The Killing"", ""House on Haunted Hill"", and ""Rosemary's Baby"". Cook was born in 1903"
"""Candle in the Wind"" and decided to stay in the US. His other Broadway credits included ""The Traitor"" (1949) and ""The French Touch"" (1945). The following year he settled in the Los Angeles area. He found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic ""Sahara"" (1943), as well as ""The Boy from Stalingrad"" (1943), ""U-Boat Prisoner"" (1944) and ""Till We Meet Again"" (1944). In post-war years, he portrayed ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, professors, foreign royalty). His films included ""Tomorrow Is Forever"" (1946); he portrayed Count"