Acme Book Shop Proprietress

Judging by his choice of screenshots, the author of this post at "Abbracci e pop corn" seems to have an appreciation for the women of "The Big Sleep" similar to mine.  

This photo is from one of the best and most inexplicable scenes in the film:  Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) strolls into the Acme Book Shop and encounters the incomparable Acme Book Shop Proprietress (Dorothy Malone).  He proceeds to ask her some nonsense questions about antique books, which she answers correctly and sexily.  Then he tells her he's a "private Dick, on a case," which impresses her so much that she closes up the shop for the afternoon, lowers the blinds and lets down her hair.  They drink some whiskey out of paper cups and the scene ends.  When the next scene begins he tells her "So long, pal," and walks out of her life forever.

Classic.