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Marlowe and comes
Kingsby comes in and, after learning that Fromsett hired Marlowe to find Chrystal, tells her theirs will be strictly a business relationship from now on.
As they become better acquainted, Marlowe comes to like the man and appreciate his cunning.
A man named Harry Jones ( Colin Blakely ) comes to Marlowe with a proposition.
Marlowe comes to realize that the woman in the hotel room was Mavis Weld, a film star.
When Marlowe comes to he finds Orrin in the room with him.

Marlowe and attention
Marlowe also draws significant attention to feelings experienced both by himself and other thinkers of his time: the unsatisfying nature of the answers found as part of this quest and the impossibility of learning everything in a lifetime as brief as that of a human.
It was translated into English in 1587, where it came to the attention of Christopher Marlowe.
This, in turn, brings Marlowe to the attention of Robin Grey, a British officer and Provost Marshal of the camp, who has developed a Javert-like obsession with the King and hopes to arrest him for violating camp regulations.

Marlowe and King
It was directed by King and stars Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger.
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 ).
* Edward II ( play ), a 1592 play by Christopher Marlowe ( originally published under the title The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer )
* King Rat ( 1965 )-Peter Marlowe
Gai-Jin provides the major link between the Shōgun and Struans storylines, while two characters from King Rat ( Robin Grey and Peter Marlowe ) appear in Noble House.
" But Marlowe soon understands that the King is not the thief and con artist that Grey would have him believe.
Through the experiences of Marlowe, the King and other characters, the novel offers a vivid, often disturbing portrayal of men brought to the edge of survival by a brutal environment.
* The King: an American corporal ; at the end of the novel he is sent back to the United States under an impending investigation for illegal profiteering in a prison camp, and is never seen again by Marlowe
Two characters from King Rat also appear in Noble House ( published 1981 ), a novel set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s, when Marlowe is a writer visiting Hong Kong to do research on the great British trading companies there.
The film was directed by Bryan Forbes and starred George Segal as Corporal King and James Fox as Marlowe, two World War II prisoners of war in a squalid camp near Singapore.
In the course of his activities, King recruits upper class British RAF officer, Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe ( James Fox ) to act as a translator.
For his part, King respects Marlowe, but his attitude is otherwise ambiguous.
When Marlowe accidentally injures his arm, King obtains expensive medicines to save the gangrenous limb from amputation, but it is unclear whether he does so out of genuine friendship or because Marlowe is the only one who knows where the proceeds from King's latest and most profitable venture are hidden.
When Marlowe speaks to him before his departure back into the ranks of the U. S. Army, King ignores his overture of renewed friendship.
Frederick Boas believes that " out of all the rich material provided by Holinshed " Marlowe was drawn to " the comparatively unattractive reign of Edward II " due to the relationship between the King and Gaveston.
An unknown client hires Marlowe ( via intermediaries ) to follow a woman traveling under the name Eleanor King ( whose real name is Betty Mayfield ).

Marlowe and ",
With the agency set to lose its biggest account – Stay-Put Lipstick – he hatches an idea to get the perfect model and spokesperson for Stay-Put's new line of lipstick, the famous actress with the " oh-so-kissable lips ", Rita Marlowe ( Jayne Mansfield ).
" Future noir films such as Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Dark City, and Children of Men use a protagonist who is "... increasingly dubious, alienated and fragmented ", at once " dark and playful like the characters in Gibson ’ s Neuromancer ", yet still with the "... shadow of Philip Marlowe ..."
An example is in The High Window, when Marlowe finally persuades the detective-lieutenant, whose " solid old face was lined and grey with fatigue ", to take a drink and thereby loosen up and give out.
* " The Pencil " ( AKA " Marlowe Takes On the Syndicate ", " Wrong Pigeon ", and " Philip Marlowe's Last Case ") ( 1959 ), ( short story ): Chandler's last completed work about Marlowe, his first Marlowe short story in more than twenty years, and the first short story originally written about Marlowe.
* Fallen Angels, " Red Wind ", adapted from the short story, Showtime Television, 26 November 1995 ( Danny Glover as Marlowe )
" A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce, the Myth of Icarus, and the Influence of Christopher Marlowe ", Estudios Irlandeses: Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies ( AEDEI ) 1 ( 2006 ), pp. 16-22.
* Scott Marlowe as Marty Lathon ( 1 episode, " The Ransom ", 1985 )
*" Kit Marlowe ", a play by American playwright David Grimm
The Bradbury Building has also featured as a location in several other Hollywood films, including Double Indemnity, " Marlowe ", D. O. A., Chinatown, The Perfect Sleep, " Wolf " and Lethal Weapon 4 and TV shows like City of Angels and The Outer Limits.
* In Raymond Chandler's novel The High Window, Phillip Marlowe is initially hired by Mrs. Murdock to locate a coin owned by her late husband, the " Brasher Doubloon ", every owner of which has been murdered.
Marlowe recognizes her as being " Mrs. Fallbrook ", the woman he met in Lavery's house, and accuses her of being the murderer of Lavery.
Teacher's Pet marks the first Our Gang appearances of June Marlowe, as the " lovely schoolteacher " Miss Crabtree, and of Matthew Beard, here identified as " Hercules ", and later called " Stymie ".
The various maze layouts are all named after famous fictional detectives or agents, such as " Clouseau ", " Marlowe ", " Holmes " or " Bond ".
Labeled by some: " Jayne Mansfield brings to life a new type of Rita Marlowe character ", whereas, some called the film: " Fox's spin-off of Marilyn Monroe's movies and not much is here.
The title is from the play Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, c1593, Act One, Scene One, lines 59-60: " My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay ", which is quoted on the frontispiece.

Marlowe and American
* 1903 – June Marlowe, American actress ( d. 1984 )
* March 10 – June Marlowe, American actress ( b. 1903 )
** Hugh Marlowe, American actor ( b. 1911 )
He married American journalist Lara Marlowe in 1994 and they divorced in 2006.
* Julia Marlowe ( 1865 – 1950 ), English-born American actress known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare.
Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen in which a group of Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One.
* Marlowe Morris ( 1915 – 1977 or 1978 ), American jazz musician
* Andrew W. Marlowe, American screenwriter
* Ann Marlowe, American critic, journalist and writer
* Chris Marlowe ( born 1951 ), American sportscaster
* Deb Marlowe, American author
* Hugh Marlowe ( 1911 – 1982 ), American actor
* June Marlowe ( 1903 – 1984 ), American actress
* Marion Marlowe ( born 1929 ), American singer and actress
* Scott Marlowe ( 1932 – 2001 ), American actor
* Stephen Marlowe ( 1928 – 2008 ), American author
* Sylvia Marlowe ( 1908 – 1981 ), American harpsichordist
Ironically, Montgomery would also play the classic American hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe in The Lady in the Lake ( 1947 ).
In the 1970s and 1980s, actress Loni Anderson portrayed curvy blonde character Jennifer Marlowe as an intelligent, eloquent, and sophisticated anti-stereotype on the American sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
June Marlowe ( November 6, 1903 – March 10, 1984 ), was an American actress, who appeared in six Our Gang short subjects as the lovely schoolteacher Miss Crabtree.
Like Marlowe, Archer observes growing dichotomies in American society with visual " snapshots ".
Marlowe encounters a variety of characters with dubious motivations, including a taciturn lawyer and his smart secretary ( with whom Marlowe had a sexual encounter ), a ' retired ' gangster, overconfident would-be tough guys of varying morals, a hired killer ( whose wrists Marlowe smashes ), decent police officers, an affectingly desperate example of the American immigrant underclass of the 1950s.

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