Humphrey Bogart and Dorothy Malone Appear in Probably the Most Famous Bookstore Scene in Movie History

Probably the most famous bookstore scene in movie history was in The Big Sleep, a classic 1946 film noir of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel, with a screenplay co-written by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. In the bookstore scene detective Philip Marlow played by Humphrey Bogart visited the Acme Book Shop and enjoyed a witty, pseudobibliophilic and teasing interchange with the seductive bookstore owner played by Dorothy Malone.