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34. Joseph Breen, PCA letter to Jack Warner re. The Big Sleep in MPAA/PCA File, Academy
o f Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills, California,
January 25, 1946.
35. According to figures in the William Schaefer Collection, University o f Southern
California Cinema-Television Library, Los Angeles.
36. Including 19 year-old Dorothy Malone, later 1950s screen siren in Douglas Sirk
melodramas. Warner Bros.’ press book publicity for The Big Sleep in The Warner Bros.
Archive, University o f Southern California Cinema-Television Library, Los Angeles,
California, 1946.
37. Warner Bros, publicity and production notes for The Big Sleep and critics James Agee
and Richard Winnington’s reviews o f The Big Sleep in The Warner Bros. Archive,
University o f Southern California Cinema-Television Library, Los Angeles, February
20, 1945 and June 27,1946.
38. Lloyd Shearer, “Crime Certainly Pays on the Screen: The growing crop o f homicidal
films poses questions for psychologists and producers,” The New York Times, August
8, 1945.
39. Shearer, NYT.