Raymond Chandler Articles

Frank Capra, Luise Rainer, George Jessel Luise Rainer turns 102 today, January 12. She is the oldest living Academy Award winner in the acting categories, having won two consecutive Best Actress Oscars for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). Because of both her longevity and the fact that Turner Classic Movies regularly shows nearly all of her films, the Dusseldorf-born (some sources [...]

Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder's quintessential film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray (right), and Edward G. Robinson, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side” on Monday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Double Indemnity will be introduced [...]

Fred MacMurray walks by Raymond Chandler (?) in Double Indemnity (top); Raymond Chandler lights his pipe (bottom) In a June 5 piece for The Guardian, Film London Chief Executive Adrian Wootton discusses Raymond Chandler's purported cameo appearance in Double Indemnity, which Chandler co-adapted with director Billy Wilder from James M. Cain's novel: "… More than 60 years after its release, a French cinema historian and [...]