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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Born: July 23, 1888
Died: March 26, 1959 (aged 70)
Bio: Raymond Thornton Chandler was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Known for:
  1. The Big Sleep (1939)
  2. The Long Goodbye (1953)
  3. Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
  4. The Little Sister (1949)
  5. The High Window (1942)
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