Sonia Darrin, the actress and dancer who as the gangster girlfriend Agnes sparred with Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe in the convoluted Warner Bros.
classicThe Big Sleep, has died. She was 96. Darrin died July 19 of natural causes at a hospital in New York City, her son, onetime child actor Mason Reese, toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
She had been slow to recover from a broken hip suffered in a fall, he said. After appearing in small, uncredited roles in such films asThe Corsican Brothers(1941),The Hard Way(1943) andFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man(1943), Darrin auditioned for a role inThe Big Sleep(1946) and was hired by director Howard Hawks.
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