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From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of The Maltese Falcon. [5] Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic ...
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) [1] [2] was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. He had been born into an affluent family in New York's Upper West Side, [3] the first-born child and only son of illustrator Maud Humphrey and physician Belmont DeForest Bogart. [1]
Fred Sexton (right) and The Maltese Falcon director John Huston, c. 1960. Fred Sexton, an American artist, sculpted the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the film. [21] The "Maltese Falcon" itself was based on the "Kniphausen Hawk", [citation needed] a ceremonial pouring vessel made in 1697 for Georg Wilhelm von Kniphausen, Count of the Holy ...
Hollywood couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are most well-known for films they starred in during the 1940s, but their son, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, is still shocked that his parent’s ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946–1949, and finally for 75 episodes on NBC in 1949–1951.
Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, [8] to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was de Chiel.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was born on December 27, 1879, in Eastry, Kent, [1] the son of Ann (née Baker) and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner.He had seven siblings. He left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business.