![]() I love that Howard Hawks, supposedly the most macho guy in the universe, couldn’t bring himself to go explain it to her – he had to have someone else go do it. (hahahaha) I mean – what else could you do? Hawks then pulled Toomey aside and asked Toomey to please go and “explain to Miss Vickers what an orgasm is”. Hawks, Bogart, and Toomey – grown men – standing there with a teenage actress – who was asking them (in all innocence) what an orgasm was. They all just stood there, awkward as hell, stunned to silence. ![]() Martha Vickers asked, “What’s an orgasm?” Hawks said, “Sweetheart, what we want here is for you to simulate that you’re having an orgasm.” You know, moviemaking has a mystique about it but there is also a no-nonsense quality to it that I find refreshing. He gave her this piece of direction in front of Bogart, Regis Toomey (who plays the DA – wonderful stolid character actor), and a couple of other people, members of the crew, etc. He wanted her to be in that quivery zone where you basically don’t even need physical contact to “get there” – he wanted her to be the kind of woman who lives in that state. #Death of a starlet movie#Anyway, Hawks had an idea for this scene (which ended up not making it into the movie – no wonder, with the censorship of the day!): He wanted Vickers to simulate an orgasm, as she sat there, looking up at Bogart. And Marlowe comes upon her, she is high on drugs, and completely out of it. Marlowe can immediately tell that obviously some kind of porno photo shoot had been going on. Howard Hawks had an idea for one of the scenes – where Marlowe (Bogart) comes into the house, and finds Vickers sitting, all dressed up in the empty house – drugged out, sexed up, in the aftermath of some sexual event. It must have been quite an experience for the inexperienced Martha Vickers, as this anecdote related by Sheila O’Malley reveals: Since the movie was intended as a vehicle to promote the Bogart Bacall chemistry that had been such a success for Warner Bros with audiences of To Have and Have Not (1944), many of Martha’s scenes ended up on the cutting-room floor. ![]() Indeed, according to Martha’s brief biography on Turner Classic Movies, Raymond Chandler claimed that she gave such an incredible performance that she upstaged Lauren Bacall. In The Big Sleep (1946) – Howard Hawks’ great film noir based on Raymond Chandler’s novel of the same name, she is fabulously slutty as Carmen Sternwood, Lauren Bacall’s out-of-control, drug-addicted, nymphomaniac little sister. What’s so intriguing about Martha is what might have been. The story of Martha Vickers’ early career is told in an article published in the October 1945 issue of Pic magazine – available for you to read as a separate, illustrated article on aenigma. Today, she’s remembered for her firecracker portrayal of Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep and for her turn as the third of Mickey Rooney’s eight wives. Martha Vickers was one of the most tantalizing actresses of the 1940s. It was expected to move over the Bahamas on Wednesday and parts of the island chain were already getting torrential rain.Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) and Vivian (Lauren Bacall) discuss what to do with the delinquent Carmen (Martha Vickers) in The Big Sleep (1946). Tropical Storm Noel drenched Cuba on Tuesday after killing at least 18 people in flooding and mudslides in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A private autopsy found the son had a mixture of drugs in his bloodstream and the coroner was expected to hear evidence from nearly three dozen people in order to determine the cause of death. NASSAU (Reuters) - The long-awaited inquest into the mysterious death of tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith’s son convened briefly in the Bahamas on Tuesday but was adjourned because Tropical Storm Noel threatened the islands.Ĭoroner William Campbell swore in a new jury of four women and three men before halting the hearing until November 19.ĭaniel, 20, died in his mother’s room at Doctors Hospital in the Bahamian capital of Nassau on September 10, 2006, three days after the pin-up model turned reality television star gave birth to daughter Dannielynn.ĭaniel and Anna Nicole, who died of an accidental prescription drug overdose in Florida in February, are both buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Nassau. ![]() The long-awaited inquest into the mysterious death of Smith's son convened briefly in the Bahamas on Tuesday but was adjourned because Tropical Storm Noel threatened the islands. ![]() Stern looks at photos on the back of a digital camera with Anna Nicole Smith during a boxing match at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida in this Januphoto. ![]()
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