The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

“So you’re a private detective? I didn’t know they existed, except in books or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.”
THE BIG SLEEP (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

LAUREN BACALL as Vivian Rutledge in 
THE BIG SLEEP (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage (1947), dir. by Delmer Daves.

Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage (1947) dir. Delmer Daves

Oh, I don’t believe in fate, or destiny, or any of those things, because I know it wasn’t destined for my father to die in prison. Well, I guess it was something like fate to make me go out to Marin County to paint. Or maybe it was simply because I was thinking of you. I – I don’t know.

Lauren Bacall as Irene Jansen in Dark Passage (dir. Delmer Daves, 1947)

Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage, 1947.

Vivian Sternwood Rutledge + outfits.

↳ The Big Sleep (1946); dir. Howard Hawks