1934, not 1936.
Myrna Loy was smoking hot.
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Cute scene.
Love Powell’s “Thin Man” movies!
Watch them, kids. After 10 minutes the B&W won’t bother you at all. You’ll love it!
All his ‘private eye’ movies are great, and the others don’t suck either.
The kids bought us the Thin Man boxed set a few years ago. Of course, dvds are almost useless now.
Thin Man movies are among my favorites. Outstanding dialogue included clever banter between William Powell’s and Myrna Loy’s characters that provided layered meanings for viewers of different ages.
After reading this thread I was looking around for a free film noir movie on youtube, and among the old movies there was a Colombo episode from 1972.
I decided to watch it instead. Lo and behold Myrna Loy was a guest star. John Cassavetes played the villian.
I used to see the old flicks at a Vitaphone Theater (in a converted WWII quonset hut), a by-membership film society that had legal access to high-quality museum archive prints. I saw all six Thin Man movies there, as well as many others.
It was run by a former gaffer and his wife, a former Ziegfield Follies dancer. They were Old Hollywood, and did it up right. They ahd a refurbished Wurlitzer for the Silents, and had quizzes between double features.
Olivia de Haviland, Joan Fontaine, Charleton Heston, and others were members, and occasionally showed up.
They did series and themes, swuch as the above, or Alfred Hitchcock movies, or Cary Grant movies.
They showed everything from Gone with the Wind to War of the Worlds (original).
While I always found Myrna Loy immensely watchable and entertaining, I considered William Powell the better actor - at least in this series. (He was superb in Life with Father.)
Two movies I recommend to anyone who enjoys these:
My Man Godfrey: William Powell, Carole Lombard.
Fifth Avenue Girl: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly.
Love the Thin Man movies. William Powell is one of our favorite actors.
trivia: IIRC the “thin man” was referring to the very first victim in the series.
My folks have all the Thin Man series. Fun to watch. Another good one with William Powell is My Man Godfrey.
And not only that, she’s wearing FUR!
Love that film. They are really good together and the Thin Man plots are not bad. I do believe Powell’s character was a high level homicide detective who retired when he got married. Enjoy all the Thin Man Flics.