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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Philip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films. In 1947, he played a war hero in another noir, Dead Reckoning, tangled in a dangerous web of brutality and violence as he investigates his friend's murder, co-starring Lizabeth Scott.
John Marcellus Huston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics.