- Peggy Knudson, The Big Sleep, 1944. The release was delayed until 1946 because of the stack of Warner’s WWII films being rushed out now that the war was over. That gave time to bolster Lauren Bacall’s role (“A lot depends on who’s in the saddle”) and other scenes such as the climax in Eddie Mars’ hideout…. where John Ridgely’s Eddie suddenly had a new wife: Knudsen succeeding Clarke’s ’45 footage.
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