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There have also been rumours that the birds escaped across the country during the wrap party for the 1951 film The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

“I thought I was going to stay in L.A. longer,” he told journalist Tom Bogart.

Authorities discovered three bodies — two females and a male — at a home on the 4700 block of Bogart Avenue around 6:48 p.m.

In a letter to his stepson that sold for $4,480, he wrote about the classic 1946 adaptation of “The Big Sleep”: “When they were making the picture at Warners Howard Hawks, the director, and Humphrey Bogart sent me a wire asking whether the chauffeur had committed suicide or been murdered, and I had to answer that I didn’t know.”

The most successful film adaptations of Chandler’s work — Hawks’ “The Big Sleep,” which showcased the electric chemistry between Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye,” indelibly starring Elliott Gould as Marlowe — are marked not just by dense plots but also by a wry sense of humor.