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unusual facts about The Big Sleep


Pony glass

In Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe relates "I unlocked my desk drawer and got out my office bottle and two pony glasses."


Charles K. Feldman

Feldman held considerable sway in the making of some films, it was Feldman who suggested to Jack Warner (as a friend) that he recut Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep and add scenes to enhance Bacall's performance, which he felt was more-or-less a 'bit part' in the 1945 cut.

LaVeyan Satanism

Great attention was paid to details gleaned from noir films like White Heat and The Big Sleep in creating one's ideal Self from deliberately invoked forms.


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Lo Fidelity Allstars

When Randall and Stone left they briefly set up as a new group called The Big Sleep, and recorded a live mix for BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs show.

Marley Shelton

That same year, she guest appeared in the television series Cybill episode "The Big Sleep-Over".