Christopher Marlowe was also called Kit.

George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Barbara Bates, Gary Merrill and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest important roles.

Around 1591 Christopher Marlowe also joined this patron's service, and for a while Marlowe and Kyd shared lodgings, and perhaps even ideas.

A contemporary of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, also wrote examples of tragedy in English, notably:

The police also ask if Marlowe is looking for Regan.

Vivian is also there, and Marlowe senses something between her and Mars.

It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, who also wrote the largely original screenplay, utilizing little more than the title and the character of Rita Marlowe from the successful Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Hunter's boss decides to leverage his employee's new found fame — however when Hunter also gets Marlowe to agree on a television spectacular sponsored by Stay-Put, Hunter becomes the advertising firm's highest regarded employee.

This legend also inspired the drama Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe.

( See also Christopher Marlowe.

Marlowe also borrowed from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, on the exchanges between Pope Adrian VI and a rival pope.

Today, Chandler's creation, private eye Philip Marlowe — who appears, for example, in his novels The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) and Farewell, My Lovely ( 1940 ) — has achieved cult status and has also been made the topic of literary seminars at universities round the world, whereas on first publication Chandler's novels were seen as little more than cheap entertainment for the uneducated masses.

While Rigby is drinking, thinking himself betrayed by Juliet, Marlowe calls and tips Rigby off that Carlotta is an island off Peru ( the island in The Bribe and also perhaps a nod to The Man Who Knew Too Much ).

Edward Alleyn, as well as being a famous Elizabethan actor, for whom Christopher Marlowe wrote his title roles, performed at the Rose Theatre, was also a man of great property and wealth, derived mainly from places of entertainment including theatres and beer-gardens.

Not only are there allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also to Wilde and Whitehall farce ; to the gentility of Ealing Studios, with a plot that distantly evokes that other great black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, and to Hammer ’ s gore-fests.

From the chapbook, the name enters Faustian literature and is also used by authors from Marlowe down to Goethe.

For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).

Philip Marlowe also carried a Model 1911 semi-automatic pistol chambered in. 38 Super in the book The High Window.

Although her stage appearances tended to run naturally towards Shakespeare and the classics, including Ibsens Hedda Gabler, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Marlowe, Racine, Gorky, Brecht, she has also appeared in plays by Genet, Pinter, Ronald Harwood, Nicholson, Albee and others.

Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to make full use of the potential of blank verse, and also established it as the dominant verse form for English drama in the age of Elizabeth I and James I.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Initially Marlowe refuses, but after Wade's wife, Eileen, also asks for Marlowe's help, he consents.

When Marlowe ( Bogart, from The Big Sleep ) calls, Rigby questions him about Walter Neff, the ship's owner, and learns that Neff cruises supermarkets looking for blondes.

Marlowe investigates the crooked cops and learns they were essentially unwitting dupes for Amthor, who thought Marlowe was trying to blackmail him.

Marlowe learns that the body of a woman has been recovered from a lake owned by Kingsby, and Kingsby's caretaker there charged with the murder of his wife Muriel.

Marlowe learns that Betty Mayfield had been married to the son of Henry Cumberland, a big shot in a small North Carolina town.

Later, Marlowe learns that the Sternwood driver has been found dead, with his car driven off a pier.

Through his investigations Marlowe learns that the photos of Ms. Weld were taken by Orrin, Orfamay's missing brother.

Philip Marlowe meets a drunk named Terry Lennox, a man with scars on one side of his face.

Once there, Marlowe grills her on the death of Terry Lennox's wife.

Marlowe listens to his story, and then says that he didn't buy it, because the Mexican man is none other than a post-cosmetic-surgery Terry Lennox.

The hardboiled detective — originated by Daly's Terry Mack and Race Williams and epitomized by Hammett's Sam Spade and Chandler's Philip Marlowe — not only solves mysteries, like his " softer " counterparts, the protagonist confronts danger and engages in violence on a regular basis.

Marlowe agrees as long as Lennox doesn't tell him any details of why he's running.

Marlowe is arrested on suspicion of murder after refusing to co-operate with investigators, who want him to confess that he helped Lennox flee.

After three days of antagonizing his interrogators, Marlowe is released when Lennox is ( allegedly ) found dead of a suicide in Otatoclán with a full written confession by his side.

Marlowe gets home to find a cryptic note from Lennox containing a " portrait of Madison " ( a $ 5000 bill ).

As all of this occurs, Marlowe is repeatedly threatened to lay off the Lennox case, first by a friend of Lennox's named Mendy Menendez, then by Lennox's father-in-law, the police, the Wades ' servant ( a Chileno named Candy ), and Wade's wife.

Eileen first tries to blame it all on Roger, but Marlowe doesn't buy her story and argues that she killed both Mrs. Lennox and Roger Wade and that Paul Marston ( Lennox ) was actually her first husband, presumed killed in action with the Special Air Service off the coast of Norway or by the Gestapo.

The next morning, Marlowe gets a call that Eileen Wade killed herself, leaving a confession note that she killed Mrs. Lennox and Roger Wade.

Finally, Marlowe gets a visit from a Mexican man who claims to have been there when Lennox was killed in his hotel room.

Marlowe had spent all day in a house owned by the widow Eleanor Bull, along with three men, Ingram Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley.

Witnesses testified that Frizer and Marlowe had earlier argued over the bill, exchanging " divers malicious words.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

The Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe knew the story well from the Huguenot literature translated into English, and probably from French refugees who had sought refuge in his native Canterbury.

" Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice-President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task.

Aside from its technical uses, it occurs frequently in literature, particularly in scholarly addenda: e. g., " Faustus had signed his life away, and was, ipso facto, incapable of repentance " ( re: Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus ) or " These prejudices are rooted in the idea that every tramp ipso facto is a blackguard " ( re: George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London ).

Ed Bishop had the title role in BBC Radio's Philip Marlowe radio drama series.

" When creating the character, Chandler had originally intended to call him Mallory ; his stories for the Black Mask magazine featured characters that are considered precursors to Marlowe.

( Hollywood had previously adapted some Marlowe novels, but with the lead character changed.

" Marlowe decides to follow up and look for the girl, partly because he could use some good will with the LAPD and partly because he hasn't had a real case for a while and " even a no charge job was a change.

Marlowe confronts her: she is Velma and had used Marriott to help conceal her new identity.

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.

As an Elizabethan playwright, Marlowe had nothing to do with the publication and had no control over the play in performance, so it was possible for scenes to be dropped or shortened, or for new scenes to be added, so that the resulting publications may be modified versions of the original script.

The dispute between these Cambridge intellectuals had quite nearly reached its zenith by the time Marlowe was a student there in the 1580s, and likely would have influenced him deeply, as it did many of his fellow students.

Marlowe shows throughout the play that his vow to forever be a servant of Satan negatively affects his life and how had he known what he was getting into, then he would never have made a deal with the devil.

The interplay between the two poems extends into the relationship that Marlowe had with Raleigh.

It was she who had sparked in him a love of reading, including an interest in the work of Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, John Milton, and Alfred Tennyson, along with several prose writers.