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Murder, My Sweet (Alternative title:murder, my darling, andGoodbye, darling) is a twisted black and white American film noir of Edward Dmytryk(picture)from the year 1944. The film is based on the mystery novelFarewell, My Lovelyby Raymond Chandler and is the first film appearance of Chandler's character Philip Marlowe. Murder, My Sweetcounts alongsideThe Falcon's Trail,LauraandWoman Without a Conscienceto the early and pioneering representatives of film noir. Private detective Philip Marlowe is tasked with looking for the missing girlfriend of an ex-convict. He is also investigating a stolen, valuable jade collar. Marlowe's research leads him to cheap dives and shelters, to a dubious private clinic and the elegant dwellings of Los Angeles' upper class until the connection between the two cases becomes apparent. - To the article ...
What happened on December 3rd?
- 1800 - The Battle of Hohenlinden during the Second War coalition that defeated French army under Jean-Victor Moreau the Habsburg - Bavarian forces with John of Austria .
- 1885 - Pieter Harting , Dutch physician, geologist and botanist, dies in Amersfoort ; the Danish publicist and historian Carl Rosenberg dies in Copenhagen .
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1895 - The Austrian-British psychoanalyst Anna Freud , founder of child psychoanalysis and daughter of Sigmund Freud , arrives in Vienna to the world.
- 1945 - The Handley Page Hermes , the first British post-war airliner, crashes on its maiden flight.
- 1960 - The restored Thalia Theater in Hamburg openswith the play Die heilige Johanna under the direction of Willy Maertens .
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Activists Joshua Wong , Agnes Chow (picture) and Ivan Lam, spokesmen for the protests in Hong Kong , have all been sentenced to prison terms. - The novel L'anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier was awarded the French Prix Goncourt .
- The Society for the German Language has chosen the term corona pandemic as word of the year in Germany; Lockdown ended up in second place .
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