The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946
The Blue Dahlia postwar boom and decadence. Chandler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. "The Blue Dahlia" was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the April 21, 1949 broadcast of "The Screen Guild Theater", starring Lake and Ladd in their original film roles. The movie was also adapted into a stage play in 1989. Houseman's narrative of the film's creation was dramatized for BBC Radio by Ray Connolly in 2009. The Blue Dahlia The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir, directed by George Marshall based on an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler. The