Editing Shadow of the Thin Man (section)

==Production==
[[Frances Goodrich]] and [[Albert Hackett]], the husband and wife team who wrote the first three ''Thin Man'' scripts, refused to write another one. Goodrich said: "They press you awfully hard there…when they started talking about another Thin Man, we started throwing up and crying into our typewriters. We had the nervous breakdown together, [so] we said, "let's get out of here [and] we quit".<ref>Bryant, Roger. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=RHn-VBnYaTgC William Powell: The Life and Films]''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006. {{ISBN|0-7864-2602-0}}<!-- https://thatwilliampowellsite.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/william-powell-the-life-and-films-roger-bryant --></ref>

The film was based on a story by Harry Kurnitz, not Dashiell Hammett, as the previous films had been, with the script written by Harry Kurnitz and Irving Brecher.

After difficulties with the previous films, author [[Dashiell Hammett]] was uninvolved in the production of ''Shadow'' or the two subsequent films in the series.<ref name="Mooney2014">{{cite book|last=Mooney|first=William H.|title=Dashiell Hammett and the Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOWaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|date=3 November 2014|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-6254-4|page=51}}</ref>

On 22 June 1941,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Finacom |first1=Steve |title=Berkeley, A Look Back: Hollywood comes to Albany racetrack in 1941 |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/22/berkeley-a-look-back-hollywood-comes-to-albany-racetrack-in-1941/ |access-date=31 January 2022 |work=[[The Mercury News]] |date=22 June 2016}}</ref> MGM filmed exteriors for ''Shadow of the Thin Man'' in [[Berkeley, California]], with [[Golden Gate Fields]] racetrack, which first opened on 1 February the same year,<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Gate Fields |url=https://www.racecoursedirectory.co.uk/2016/06/go-to-golden-gate-fields-racecourse-in.html |website=Racecourse Directory |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Gate Fields |url=https://www.offtrackbetting.com/racetracks/GG/golden_gate_fields.html |website=OFF TRACK BETTING |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref> as ''Greenway Park''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Seal |first1=John |title=Made in Berkeley: Shadow of the Thin Man |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2010/11/30/locally-grown-produce-shadow-of-the-thin-man |access-date=30 January 2022 |work=[[Berkeleyside]] |date=30 November 2010}}</ref> On the [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge]], Nick and Nora Charles get "pulled over" for speeding on the upper deck of the bridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reliving the Glory Days of the Bay Bridge Through Hollywood Movies |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/138692/reliving-the-glory-days-of-the-bay-bridge-through-hollywood-movies |website=[[KQED Inc.]] |date=11 June 2014 |access-date=31 January 2022 |language=en-us}}</ref>