Re: RARA-AVIS: THE LONG GOODBYE and...cats?

From: Bob Toomey ( btoomey@javanet.com)
Date: 13 Jan 2000


Karen Anderson wrote:

> Can anyone suggest why Robert Altman's 1973 film of THE LONG GOODBYE had
> Phillip Marlowe (played by Elliot Gould) owning a cat? Scanning quickly
> through the book itself, I could find no mention of a cat. The question is,
> am I missing some hint about a cat in the original text?

I seem to recall a photograph of Chandler holding a large black cat in his arms. Could they have got it from that?

BobT

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