Remembering Bogart and Bacall in... The Big Sleep The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks,the first film version of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results". William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, 1946 #YMRTFilmClub | You Must Remember This

Lauren Bacall reflected on her romance with Humphrey Bogart, which began during the filming of To Have and Have Not (1944), writing: “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.” The couple married a year later and remained together until Bogart’s death in 1957. | History of Cinema