The Big Sleep (1946) Cast | Crew | Articles | Bibliography | Links | Image Credits Howard Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a very complicated film. It was originally shot in December 1944, a few months after Bogart and Bacall's debut pairing, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944), and a few months before the two stars married. THE BIG SLEEP was based on the Raymond ...