Real-Life Couples on the Silver Screen:The Big Sleep

Not Rated (1946) 114 minutes Black & White 

Directed by Howard Hawks. 
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall.

Join librarian Doug Swiszcz for another of his lecture series on classic movies, this one highlighting real life couples who performed together on screen.

L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Bogart) takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, and the spoiled rich. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister (Bacall).

Come enjoy the film in our newly renovated Salem Family Auditorium, with comfortable new seats and improved acoustics.

Free and open to all.

The other films in this series will screen on:
3/09 at 1:30 pm - Woman of the Year (Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn)
3/23 at 1:30 pm - Paris Blues (Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward)
4/06 at 1:30 pm - That Hamilton Woman (Laurence Olivier-Vivien Leigh)

Event Location: 
Salem Family Auditorium (Second Floor)
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