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Detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler is best known for creating the private detective character Philip Marlowe, featured in The Big Sleep.


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Detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler made great contributions to both crime fiction drama and film noir cinema. He created the well-known private detective Philip Marlowe, played by Humphrey Bogart on screen. He adapted the screenplays for Double Indemnity and Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. His only original screenplay was for The Blue Dahlia which was nominated for an Academy Award.

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