The Thin Man
Starring: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Maureen O'Sullivan
Director: W. S. Van Dyke, Lesley Selander
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Dashiell Hammett
Producer: Hunt Stromberg
The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter. Nick is a retired private detective who left his very successful career when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress accustomed to high society.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Based on The Thin Man (1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett).
- Van Dyke convinced MGM executives to let Powell and Loy portray the lead characters despite concerns that Powell was too old and strait-laced to play Nick Charles and that Loy had become typecast in exotic femme fatale roles.
- Skippy played Asta, the dog of Nick and Nora.
- For Powell's first scene in the film, Van Dyke told him to take the cocktail shaker, go to the bar and just walk through the scene while the crew checked lights and sound.
Previous Showings
11 Runs • 6 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (June 22, 1934)
Original Run: June 22, 1934 (Friday - Monday)
All runs on record (11):
- June 22, 1934 (Friday - Monday)William Powell, Myrna Loy
- July 10 - 14, 1992w/ One Way Passage
- June 3 - 9, 1994w/ Top Hat
- July 4 - 5, 1996w/ His Girl Friday
- November 6 - 10, 1998Romantic Comedy Seriesw/ Bachelor Mother
- July 24 - 27, 1999summer99w/ Top Hat
- February 13 - 15, 2004jstewart-2004w/ Rear Window
- May 22 - 30, 2004jstewart-2004w/ Rear Window
- March 10 - 12, 2006Winter 2006w/ Top Hat
- November 24 - 26, 200920th Anniversary Festivalw/ My Man Godfrey
- July 13 - 15, 2018Summer 2018w/ Top Hat