Happy Birthday Raymond Chandler! Born July 23, 1888, Chandler wrote seven Phillip Marlowe novels and screenplays for noir classics like The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Blue Dahlia (1946) and Strangers on a Train (1951)

Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

Dana Andrews as Det. Mark Dixon in Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Charles Korvin and Evelyn Keyes as Matt Krane and Sheila Bennet in The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Jean Hagen and Sterling Hayden as "Doll" Conovan and Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

John Garfield and Lana Turner as Frank Chambers and Cora Smith in The Postman Aways Rings Twice (1946)

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990)

Robert Mitchum as Preacher Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter (1955)

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity, 1944

Kansas City Confidential | Phil Karlson | 1952

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941)