They could have done a whole movie just with Powell and Loy sitting and bantering, and it would have been better than 90% of the films they put out nowadays.
14 time with William Powell & Myrna Loy 10 time with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 9 time with Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn 8 time with Errol Flynn & Olivia De Havilland 6 time with William Powell & Kay Francis
The bit with taking the flower vase away is a subtle gag about how they had to hide microphones close to the actors in the early sound era due to technical constraints
I've had a silly fantasy ever since I've first watched "The Thin Man" - I'd love to have Nick Charles's wardrobe, right down the cufflinks, overcoats, wristwatches, neck ties, cocktail shakers and pajamas. One of the most dapper and elegant actors, period. Bill Powell is a men's fashion icon and Myrna Loy was a babe! ASTA!
One of the jolliest couples in all romantic comedies. Pair this some weekend with a reading from a Jeeves novel by PJ Wodehouse, and your mood will brighten immediately! 🎉
@@alansmithee183 Apparently it was almost a done deal but his 2013 movie The Lone Ranger bombed so badly the studio decided to shelve the project. Thank God! He nor anyone else today could replicate or even come close to William Powell's smoothness or sophistication.
They did do a remake in the 50s. A tv show in 1958 starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. It’s not that bad but they’re definitely no William Powell and Myrna Loy.
You know, for a movie in the public domain, this movie is nigh impossible to find unless you buy it. So very frustrating, it's a public domain movie. That means no one owns it. Why are you selling a movie that you should have no legal right to sell?!
Back in the days when alcoholism and public drunkenness did not carry a social stigma. But it's still a great film. The next three films in the series were just as good. They should have made more of them. Well, maybe they should not have made Song of the Thin Man. That one was too dark. Not that I don't like noir, because I do. But the last of the six of the series just did not do the Thin Man any justice. BTW, Nick Charles (William Powell) is not the Thin Man. It was the character named Wynant.
@@fireseeker4him No, there were exactly six Thin Man movies. Numbers two, three and four were just as great as the original. That's really rare in Hollywood. Number five, The Thin Man Goes Home, was good, but not great as the first four. As mentioned above, Song of the Thin Man was not good at all. A note of interest, Dashiell Hammett, who wrote the novel on which the first film was based, was called in to write the script of the first sequel After the Thin Man. In doing some checking, I noticed a remake of The Thin Man is in the works. Johnny Depp is involved. No disrespect intended for Depp, but I wish instead they'd re-release the original to theaters. They should from time to time re-release the old classics for theaters.
"social stigma"?! This is just after the end of Prohibition, every day was New Years & the Charles are celebrating 🍾! Speaking of "social stigma", you're fine with MULTIPLE corpses?! Also NOT "public drunkenness", they're in a speakeasy & Song NOT film nor, they're on a BOAT. Stop typing.
@@unowen-nh9ov So you responded without reading my posting. That much is obvious since you are attributing to me the opposite of what I said. Do you realize how that make you look? 🤣 And since Prohibition ended in 1933, and this film was made in 1934, it was not a speakeasy. Stop talking about things you know nothing about.
That is a remarkable observation to make from this particular clip. Harlow doesn't appear. Nora is played by Myrna Loy, and Dorothy is played by Maureen O'Sullivan. Nick is William Powell. William Powell married Jean Harlow during the same year that The Thin Man was released.
@@kevinwachs5905 Powell was divorced from Carole Lombard when they co-starred in My Man Godfrey & engaged to Harlow in Libeled Lady, they never married.
I'm too young to know, but it's a reasonable suspicion that movies even back then had some differences from real life, that is, on the "small details" scale. Similarly, I'm also curious about the silly low-banister staircase in "Charlie Chan in the Secret Service" (1944.) It may have been low just to get a better shot of the actors going up or down the steps.
