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.
I’ll watch almost anything with Myrna Loy. I could watch the ‘Thin Man’ movies forever - they never get old. I always though Powell and Loy should’ve been married in real life. But that might’ve ruined the on-screen magic. Another Powell film I enjoy immensely of course, if ‘Life With Father’. No a big fan of Dunne - she just didn’t do anything for me. Loy however...MAN! ;-)
You really know how to "trigger" an (almost) 86-year-old... {:-)
The 1930's were packed with Hollywood's greatest female film stars... You would be hard pressed to find one that wasn't a fine actress, as well as beautiful...
Hollywood was an important patriotic media outlet during WWII... Hollywood actresses contributed greatly to the war effort... Lombard lost her life in that support... Hedy Lamarr was not only a leading morale-boosting pin-up for the troops, but she was the principal developer of electronic systems that finally allowed our subs and torpedo planes to actually start sinking German and Jap shipping...
IAC, rest assured that if WWIII (chicoms) starts, Hollywood will be nowhere to be found (Except, probably, in China supporting the chicoms)...