Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

The popular alternative band My Chemical Romance stated in their DVD Life On The Murder Scene that bassist Mikey Way got the name for their band from the book's subtitle.

In 2009, his mother Judy Shepard authored a book The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed.

His other film roles include The Trial, Fear Strikes Out, Tall Story, The Matchmaker, Lovin ' Molly, Pretty Poison, Catch-22, Mahogany, Remember My Name, Murder on the Orient Express, Crimes of Passion, and The Black Hole.

Alongside recurring characters, the early series featured several actors who later achieved greater fame, such as Joely Richardson, (" The Dream ", 1989 ), Samantha Bond, (" The Adventure of the Cheap Flat ", 1990 ), Christopher Eccleston ( One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1992 ), Hermione Norris (" Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan ", 1993 ), Damian Lewis ( Hickory Dickory Dock, 1995 ), Jamie Bamber ( The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 2000 ), Russell Tovey ( Evil Under the Sun, 2001 ), and Michael Fassbender ( After The Funeral, 2006 ).

Silver is the main character in Silver — My Own Tale As Told By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder by Edward Chupack ( ISBN 978-0-312-53936-8 ).

* Lux Radio Theater, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 11 June 1945 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

* Hollywood Star Time, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 8 June 1948 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

In 1944, Powell's career changed forever when he was cast in the first of a series of films noir, as private detective Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, directed by Edward Dmytryk.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 )

Also, extracts are mentioned in Ron's own book My Story and Kate Kray's books Sorted, Murder, Madness and Marriage and Free At Last.

Lamour published her autobiography, My Side of the Road, in 1980, revived her nightclub act, and performed in plays and television shows such as Hart to Hart, Crazy Like a Fox, Remington Steele and Murder, She Wrote.

* Murder Was My Business by John Du Rose ( Mayflower Books, St Albans 1973 ) is the autobiography of the policeman who investigated the nude murders, and includes chapters on many of his famous cases.

Two of Trevor's memorable roles were starring opposite Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet and with Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill, in the latter playing a divorcee who gets more than she bargained for by falling in love with a bad boy who impulsively commits a murder.

* My Stepson, My Lover ( 1997 ) TV Movie ( also known as Love, Murder and Deceit )

His best known films from the pre-McCarthy period of his career were film noirs Crossfire, for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination, and Murder, My Sweet, the latter an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 )

Her best-remembered role is probably Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities ( 1934 ), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana ( Sweet Marijuana ).

Four singles were released from Tweekend: " Wild, Sweet and Cool ", " Murder ", " Blowout ", " Name of the Game ".

In 1944, Dick Powell played the part of the hard-boiled detective in a classic film noir which was alternatively entitled Murder, My Sweet and Farewell, My Lovely — two years before Humphrey Bogart was offered the role of Philip Marlowe in 1946 for The Big Sleep.

This novel was dramatized for television in 1954 on the anthology series Climax !, with Dick Powell playing Marlowe as he had a decade earlier in the film Murder, My Sweet.

Dick Powell also made an indelible impression as Marlowe in the classic Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), adapted from Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

* Murder too Sweet ( 1994 ) as Harry the Huckster

Stryper released the album Murder by Pride, produced by Sweet in July 2009.

Marlow's hallucinations are not far from the Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the 1944 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, with Dick Powell as Marlowe.

Murder, My Sweet is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley.

It opened in New York City, however, on March 8, 1945, as Murder, My Sweet.

Murder, My Sweet is considered one of the best Chandler adaptations.

Glenn Erickson, in a recent review of the film, wrote, " Murder, My Sweet remains the purest version of Chandler on film, even if it all seems far too familiar now.

Murder, My Sweet is what they all aspire to be.

In short, Murder, My Sweet is pulse-quickening entertainment.

In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English solicitor's clerk, filed for a patent of his invention of a murder / mystery-themed game, originally named " Murder!

The Red House Mystery was immediately popular ; Alexander Woollcott called it " one of the three best mystery stories of all time ", though Raymond Chandler, in his 1944 essay The Simple Art of Murder criticized Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, " rather a fast man with a superlative ".

Louis Capone ( 1896 – March 4, 1944 ) was a New York organized crime figure who became a supervisor for Murder, Inc. Louis Capone was not related to Al Capone, the boss of the Chicago Outfit.

Louis " Lepke " Buchalter ( February 6, 1897March 4, 1944 ) was an American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s.

Category: Murder in 1944

He then moved to Universal, where in 1944 he worked on his first credited feature script, Murder in the Blue Room.

* Murder in the Blue Room ( 1944 )

# Crazy Knights ( 1944 ) aka Murder in the Family ( TV title )

43 " You Can't Pin a Murder on Nevada " ( 5 / 15-6 / 2 1944 15 episodes )

He also appeared on the Broadway stage in Ten Little Indians ( 1944 ) and Dial M for Murder.

* Shake Hands with Murder ( 1944 )

Shirley in Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 )

* Checkmate to Murder ( 1944 )