Little did she know this (and the cutting room floor) would be the peak of her professional life.
Phillip Marlowe encounters the Vixen
'She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.' Humphrey Bogart and Martha Vickers (Carmen Sternwood), The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks, 1946
Vickers divorce, 1951
Vickers divorce, 24 September 1951. Martha Vickers (divorcing Mickey Rooney). Still a beautiful girl here although looking a bit drawn and tired perhaps. Women in Gloves collection.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers in court, 1961
Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers share a row in the courthouse and little else. This must have been about child support as Vickers and Rooney had been divorced for ten years by this time. Sadly, Mickey looks at ease in these surroundings as he should, seeing as how he was going to be and had been a frequent visitor to these parts.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Martha Vickers in court, 1961
Martha Vickers (ex of Mickey Rooney) in court, 23 June 1961. Martha, no longer the beautiful child-woman of The Big Sleep and looking a bit gaunt and drawn but still with the great face, looking pensive. She has ten years. She'll die in 1971 at 46.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961