Martha Vickers never had much of a career in movies, and I don’t know why not. Maybe she was a lousy actress, or didn’t shag the right producers — it was the 1940s, who knows? Certainly, it could not have been because of her looks:
Just one of those mysteries, I guess.
She was astonishingly sexy in “The Big Sleep.” I would have fallen for her over big sister Lauren Bacall every day of the week and twice on Sunday.