How old was Dorothy Malone in the movie The Big Sleep?
Dorothy Malone was 20 in The Big Sleep when she played the character 'Acme Bookstore Proprietress'.
That was over 78 years ago in 1946.
In 2018 she died aged 93, starring in 73 films in her career, 61 of those after The Big Sleep was first released. If she were alive today she would be 99.
How old do you think she looks in the movie?
In The Big Sleep, I think Dorothy Malone looks:
Did you know?
- Director Howard Hawks has worked with Dorothy Malone just once in her career.
- Dorothy Malone's first movie was as 'Model' in Gildersleeve on Broadway, released in 1943 when she was 17
- The Big Sleep scores 7.69 out of 10 on TMDB.
