Editing Nick and Nora Charles (section)

==Subsequent adaptations==
* '''Radio:''' The popularity of the film series spawned a radio program based on them, ''[[The Adventures of the Thin Man]]''.  It successfully ran from 1941 to 1950, starring [[Claudia Morgan]] as Nora, with [[Les Damon]], [[Les Tremayne]], David Gothard and Joseph Curtin all giving voice to Nick, depending on the season.
* '''Television (series):''''' [[The Thin Man (TV series)|The Thin Man]]'' ran two seasons from 1957 to 1959 starring [[Peter Lawford]] and [[Phyllis Kirk]] as Nick and Nora.  The series transplanted the couple to New York's [[Greenwich Village]], updating the 1930s big band glamour to the 1950s [[Beat Generation]].  There were 72 episodes.
* '''Television (movie):''' In 1975, [[Craig Stevens (actor)|Craig Stevens]] and [[Jo Ann Pflug]] starred in the made-for-TV movie ''Nick and Nora'', part of the [[ABC's Wide World of Entertainment|Wide World of Mystery]] series of TV movies.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1975-03-04|title=Television|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/04/archives/television.html|access-date=2021-04-28|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Rowan|first=Terry|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1242965289|title=Character-based film series. Part 3|publisher=Lulu.com|year=2016|isbn=978-1-365-02131-2|location=|page=189|oclc=1242965289}}</ref>
* '''Stage (musical):''' In 1991, a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[musical theatre|musical]], ''[[Nick & Nora (musical)|Nick & Nora]]'' with a book by [[Arthur Laurents]], lyrics by [[Richard Maltby Jr.]], and music by [[Charles Strouse]] was based on the characters. [[Barry Bostwick]] played Nick, and [[Joanna Gleason]] played Nora.  The chief innovation of this incarnation was to introduce strife and resentment into the relationship.  After one of the longest preview periods in Broadway history, the show opened to poor reviews and closed after nine performances.
* '''Stage (play):'''
**In 2009, the City Literature Theatre, a Chicago repertory company, mounted a stage production of the original Hammett novel adapted by Terry McCabe.
**In 2018, Vertigo Theatre in Calgary, Canada premiered a new adaptation of ''The Thin Man'' by playwright Lucia Frangione. The Charleses were played by Curt McKinstry and Nadien Chu, respectively. A mostly loyal adaptation of Hammett's novel, the character of Nora Charles was given a new backstory as the Chinese-American heiress of a silk import/export fortune in San Francisco. This added the layer of an interracial marriage between the main characters, and shone light on the systemic racism of pre-WWII America.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theyyscene.com/2018/09/19/how-to-have-fun-while-solving-a-murder-the-thin-man-at-vertigo-theatre/|title=How to have fun while solving a murder – The Thin Man at Vertigo Theatre |work=TheYYSCENE - Calgary's Going Out Guide |date=19 September 2018 |publisher=TheYYSCENE|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> Frangione said: "An element that was in the original novel and the film was the fact that Nora and Nick were a married couple with no children who spent their Christmas with strangers. Both joy and sorrow hold a couple together, so as a writer I had to ask myself, 'Why are they socially isolated?'  Hammett and Hellman were outsiders because of race and politics. So, I decided to flesh out a story point that was already hinted at in the novel and film. Nora is a wealthy heiress from San Francisco, why couldn't she be Chinese? I have always sought intelligent ways to diversify my casts. We live in a multi-racial society, that should be reflected on stage."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vertigotheatre.com/news|title=News|website=Vertigo Theatre|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-05|archive-date=2019-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505050459/https://www.vertigotheatre.com/news|url-status=dead}}</ref>
**The [[Thrilling Adventure Hour]] stage show often featured a segment called "Beyond Belief" in which [[Paul F. Tompkins]] and [[Paget Brewster]] portrayed paranormal mystery-solving couple Frank and Sadie Doyle, who were parodies of Nick and Nora.
* '''Film:'''  
**In 2011, it was announced that a film version, starring [[Johnny Depp]] as Nick Charles, was in development but it has since been [[development hell|shelved]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2441669/johnny-depp-the-thin-man/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427184643/http://www.mtv.com/news/2441669/johnny-depp-the-thin-man/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2019|title=Johnny Depp's 'The Thin Man' Shelved At Warner Bros.|website=[[MTV]] }}</ref>
**Nick and Nora were spoofed in the 1976 comedy film ''[[Murder by Death]]''. [[David Niven]] played detective Dick Charleston and [[Maggie Smith]] played his wife Dora Charleston.