Who did Lauren Bacall star with in the movie “The Big Sleep”?
Between 1943 and 1953 Hawks made pioneering works in no less than five separate genres. Air Force is a muscular and hard-nosed war film of the patriotic variety only possible during WWII. The Big Sleep, a film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is the best adaptation of a Raymond Chandler book. Red River, which ushered in the era of the “adult” Western, made possible the 1950s masterpieces of John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Budd Boetticher. The sci-fi classic The Thing from Another World, although only officially produced by Hawks with director credit given to his frequent editor Christian Nyby, is unmistakably a Hawks film in its study of the camaraderie of men in groups. And Hawks even tackled the musical with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a film that objectifies men and women with equal opportunity and provided Marilyn Monroe with her first great comedic role. Sources:
