The Marlowe in My Mind: Dick Powell's Philip Marlowe in, "Murder My Sweet"

Dick Powell is a glutton for punishment. More specifically, Powell’s Philip Marlowe is a glutton for punishment. In the 1944 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Farwell, My Lovely, renamed Murder, My Sweet (d. Edward Dmytryk), Dick Powell played the part of the famous private detective as if it might be the last acting gig he would ever have.