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{{Short description|1934 film by W. S. Van Dyke}} {{Use American English|date=April 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = The Thin Man | image = The Thin Man 1934 Poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[W. S. Van Dyke]] | producer = [[Hunt Stromberg]] | screenplay = {{Plainlist| * [[Albert Hackett]] * [[Frances Goodrich]] }} | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Thin Man]]''<br>1933 novel|[[Dashiell Hammett]]}} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[William Powell]] * [[Myrna Loy]] * [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] * [[Nat Pendleton]] * [[Minna Gombell]] }} | music = [[William Axt]] | cinematography = [[James Wong Howe]] | editing = [[Robert J. Kern]] | studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | distributor = [[Loews Cineplex Entertainment|Loew's Inc.]] | released = {{Film date|1934|05|25|US}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $231,000<ref name=mannix>{{cite journal|first=H. Mark|last=Glancy|title=MGM film grosses, 1924-1948: The Eddie Mannix Ledger|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=12|number=2|year=1992|pages=127–144|doi=10.1080/01439689200260081}}</ref><ref name=mannixa>{{cite journal|first=H. Mark|last=Glancy|title=Appendix|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=12|number=S2|year=1992|pages=1–20|doi=10.1080/01439689208604539}}</ref> | gross = $1.4 million {{small|(worldwide rentals)}}<ref name=mannix /><ref name=mannixa /> }} '''''The Thin Man''''' is a 1934 American [[Pre-Code Hollywood|pre-Code]] [[comedy-mystery film]] directed by [[W. S. Van Dyke]] and based on the [[The Thin Man|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. Their [[Fox Terrier (Wire)|wire-haired fox terrier]] Asta was played by canine actor [[Skippy (dog)|Skippy]]. In 1997, the film was added to the United States [[National Film Registry]] having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="ct1997">{{cite news |title=25 More Films Picked for National Registry |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/11/19/25-more-films-picked-for-national-registry/ |access-date=April 17, 2024 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 19, 1997}}</ref><ref name="loclist">{{cite web |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |website=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=April 17, 2024}}</ref> The film's screenplay was written by [[Albert Hackett]] and [[Frances Goodrich]], a married couple. In 1934, the film was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. The eponymous "Thin Man" is not Nick Charles, but the man Charles is initially hired to find – Clyde Wynant (part way through the film, Charles describes Wynant as a "thin man with white hair"). The "Thin Man" moniker was thought by many viewers to refer to Nick Charles and, after a time, it was used in the titles of sequels as if referring to Charles. It was followed by [[The Thin Man (film series)|five sequels]]. ==Plot== [[File:Thin-Man-Powell-Loy-Asta-American.jpg|thumb|left|[[William Powell]], [[Myrna Loy]] and [[Skippy (dog)|Skippy]] (Asta) in ''The Thin Man'']] Dorothy Wynant discusses her upcoming wedding with her father Clyde. She is surprised that her fiancé knows all about her family yet still wants to marry her. Later, her father discovers that bonds worth $50,000, intended as a wedding present for his daughter, are missing. The only other person who knows the combination of the safe in which they were kept is his secretary, Julia. When he confronts Julia about the missing bonds, she confesses that she cashed them in and has only $25,000 left. He threatens to call the police unless she comes up with the other $25,000. Nick Charles is a retired detective and he once did a job for Clyde. Nick and his wealthy wife, Nora, live in San Francisco but are visiting [[New York City]] for Christmas, staying in a glamorous apartment-like suite at the Hotel Normandie. While in New York, Nick is pressed back into service by Dorothy, as her father, the "Thin Man" of the movie title, was supposed to have left on a secret business trip with a promise to return home before his daughter's wedding, but he has mysteriously disappeared. She convinces Nick to take the case, with the assistance of his socialite wife, who is eager to see him in action. What appears to be a missing person situation rapidly turns into a murder case, when Julia Wolf, Clyde's former secretary and girlfriend, is found dead, and evidence points to Clyde as the prime suspect. Dorothy refuses to believe that her father is guilty. Nick and Police Lieutenant Guild visit Nunheim, a petty criminal who regularly provides information to the lieutenant. After being pressed for information, Nunheim excuses himself momentarily, only to slip away down the fire escape. He arranges a meeting with the yet-unidentified murderer (someone whose face is not yet shown) to collect $5,000 from him. When Nunheim arrives, however, he is immediately shot four times and killed. On a hunch, Nick soon visits Wynant's closed shop in the dead of night and uses Asta's nose to find a skeletonized, but fully dressed, body, buried under the floor. In the dark shop, Wynant's bookkeeper, Tanner, suddenly appears. After that, the police—whom Nick had called once he found the body—arrive and concludes that Wynant committed the murders of Julia and now this newly discovered body. They assume that the remains belong to the "Fat Man"—a long-ago enemy of Wynant's—because of its oversized clothing with a belt buckle bearing an "R" (for "Rosebreen", that notorious figure's surname). But Nick has already all but solved the case—and soon invites the full cast of suspects to an elegant dinner party. There, as planned, the murderer is exposed. Nick—who had accompanied the medical examiner when he X-rayed the buried body—theorizes that the clothes were planted to hide the body's true identity, as the X-ray revealed telltale shrapnel, presumably from an old war wound, in one leg, the exact same injury that had plagued the "Thin Man": the missing Wynant. Nick deduces that the real culprit murdered Clyde once he discovered that the killer had been embezzling from him, and then the culprit murdered his own accomplice, Julia Wolf, because she knew about Clyde's murder, and after that, he murdered Nunheim since he had witnessed Julia's murder and was blackmailing him. Nick unfurls more of his theory to the dinner guests. Herbert MacCauley, Clyde's attorney, panics and tries to shoot Nick. Nick punches him out and declares MacCauley to be the murderer. Finally, Nick and Nora, along with Dorothy and her new husband, Tommy, celebrate as they ride a luxury train back to California. Nora, in the lower bunk, wants to sleep with Asta, but Nick tosses Asta to the upper bunk and joins Nora himself. Asta looks down on the couple and covers his eyes with his paw. ==Cast== [[File:Poster - Thin Man, The 02.jpg|thumb|Lobby card]] {{Cast listing| * [[William Powell]] as Nick Charles * [[Myrna Loy]] as Nora Charles * [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] as Dorothy Wynant * [[Nat Pendleton]] as Lt. John Guild * [[Minna Gombell]] as Mimi Wynant Jorgenson * [[Porter Hall]] as Herbert MacCaulay * [[Henry Wadsworth (actor)|Henry Wadsworth]] as Tommy * [[William Henry (actor)|William Henry]] as Gilbert Wynant * [[Harold Huber]] as Arthur Nunheim * [[Cesar Romero]] as Chris Jorgenson * [[Natalie Moorhead]] as Julia Wolf * [[Edward Brophy]] as Joe Morelli<ref>Brophy would return to the series in 1944 as Brogan in ''[[The Thin Man Goes Home]]''.</ref> * [[Edward Ellis (actor)|Edward Ellis]] as Clyde Wynant, the "thin man" * [[Skippy (dog)|Skippy]] as Asta, their dog * Cyril Thornton as Tanner }} '''Cast notes:''' * Nat Pendleton reprised the role of Lt. Guild in 1939's ''[[Another Thin Man]]''.<ref>{{AFI film|5102|Another Thin Man}}</ref> ==Production== ===Screenplay=== The film was based on the novel of the same name by [[Dashiell Hammett]], released in January 1934. Hammett's novel drew on his experiences as a union-busting Pinkerton detective in Butte, Montana. Hammett based Nick and Nora's banter upon his rocky on-again, off-again relationship with playwright [[Lillian Hellman]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0620.html |title=Obituary: Lillian Hellman, Playwright, Author, and Rebel, Dies at 77 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 1, 1984 |access-date=July 1, 2017}}</ref> MGM paid Hammett $21,000 for the screen rights to the novel. The screenplay was written by [[Albert Hackett]] and [[Frances Goodrich]], who had been married for three years. Director [[W.S. Van Dyke]] encouraged them to use Hammett's writing as a basis only, and to concentrate on providing witty exchanges for Nick and Nora.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} ===Casting=== 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.<ref name="bryant">{{cite book |last=Bryant|first=Roger|date=2006|title=William Powell: The Life and Films|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|publisher=McFarland & Company|pages=4, 10|isbn=9780786454938}}</ref><ref name="tcm">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2737/the-thin-man#overview|title=The Thin Man|website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|access-date=January 1, 2022}}</ref> [[Skippy (dog)|Skippy]] played Asta, the dog of Nick and Nora. Skippy was subsequently cast in two screwball comedy classics, ''[[The Awful Truth]]'' (1937) and ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' (1938).<ref>{{AFI person | 161699-a-dog-Asta | A Dog Asta }}</ref> ===Filming=== [[File:Thin-Man-Loy-Powell-Skippy.jpg|thumb|Myrna Loy, William Powell and Skippy]] {{blockquote |quote=[Nick and Nora were the] first on-screen Hollywood couple for whom matrimony did not signal the end of sex, romance and adventure.|source=Film historian [[Andrew Sarris]] (1998)<ref>[[Andrew Sarris|Sarris, Andrew]] (1998) ''"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film History and Memory, 1927-1949''. New York: Oxford University Press. p.419 {{ISBN|0-19-513426-5}}</ref>}} The film was shot with a budget of $226,408 by cinematographer [[James Wong Howe]]. 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. Powell did it, throwing in some lines and business of his own. Suddenly he heard Van Dyke say, "That's it! Print it!" The director had decided to shoot the scene without Powell knowing it so that he would be as relaxed and natural as possible. Van Dyke often did not bother with cover shots if he felt the scene was right on the first take, reasoning that actors "lose their fire" if they have to do something over and over. It was a lot of pressure on the actors, who often had to learn new lines and business immediately before shooting, without the luxury of retakes, but Loy credited much of the appeal of the film to Van Dyke's pacing and spontaneity. He paid the most attention to Powell and Loy's easy banter between takes and their obvious enjoyment of each other's company and worked it into the movie. The director often encouraged and incorporated improvisation and off-the-cuff details into the picture. In order to keep her entrance fresh and spontaneous, Van Dyke did not tell Loy about it until right before they shot it. Powell loved working so much with Loy because of her naturalness, her professionalism, and her lack of any kind of "diva" temperament. Of her, Powell said: {{bquote|When we did a scene together, we forgot about technique, camera angles, and microphones. We weren't acting. We were just two people in perfect harmony. Myrna, unlike some actresses who think only of themselves, has the happy faculty of being able to listen while the other fellow says his lines. She has the give and takes of acting that brings out the best.}} According to Loy, the actors were not allowed to interact between takes with the dog Skippy; trainers felt it would break his concentration. Skippy once bit Loy during filming.<ref name="Being and Becoming">{{cite book |last1=Kotsilibas-Davis |first1=James |last2=Loy |first2=Myrna |author-link2=Myrna Loy |date=1987 |title=Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming |url=https://archive.org/details/myrnaloybeingbec00kots |location=New York |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |isbn=9780394555935 |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{Rp|91}} Although she had great compliments for Powell's charm and wit, [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] (who played the daughter of Wynant) later said she did not enjoy making the picture because her part was so small and the production was so rushed. The scene of Nick shooting the ornaments off the tree was added after Powell playfully picked up an air gun and started shooting ornaments the art department was putting up. Loy wrote that the biggest problem during shooting was the climactic dinner party scene in which Nick reveals the killer. Powell complained that he had too many lines to learn and could barely decipher the complicated plot he was unraveling. It was the one scene when several retakes were necessary, which brought up an entirely new problem. The script called for oysters to be served to the dinner guests and, in take after take, the same plate of oysters was brought out under the hot lights. Loy recalled that "they began to putrefy. By the time we finished that scene, nobody ever wanted to see another oyster".<ref name="Being and Becoming"/>{{Rp|89–90}} ==Reception== The film was released on May 25, 1934, to overwhelmingly positive reviews, with special praise for the chemistry between Loy and Powell. [[Mordaunt Hall]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it "an excellent combination of comedy and excitement", and the film appeared on the ''Times'' year-end list of the ten best of the year.<ref name="bryant" /> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' reported that "''The Thin Man'' was an entertaining novel, and now it's an entertaining picture. For its leads the studio couldn't have done better than to pick Powell and Miss Loy, both of whom shade their semi-comic roles beautifully".<ref>{{cite news |date=July 3, 1934 |title=The Thin Man |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |location=New York |page=26}}</ref> ''[[Film Daily]]'' raved: "The screen seldom presents a more thoroughly interesting piece of entertainment than this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's popular novel. The rapid fire dialogue is about the best heard since talkies, and it is delivered by Powell and Miss Loy to perfection".<ref>{{cite news |date=May 23, 1934 |title=Feature and Short Review |journal=[[Film Daily]] |location=New York |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. |page=7}}</ref> [[John Mosher (writer)|John Mosher]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote that Loy and Powell played their parts "beautifully", adding: "All the people of the book are there, and I think the final scenes of the solution of the mystery are handled on a higher note than they were in print".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mosher |first=John C. |author-link=John Mosher (writer) |date=July 7, 1934 |title=The Current Screen |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page=64}}</ref> [[Louella Parsons]] called it "the greatest entertainment, the most fun and the best mystery-drama of the year".<ref name="bryant" /> The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' said that it was "exciting", "amusing" and "fat with ultra, ultra-sophisticated situations and dialog". It also called Powell and Loy "delightful".<ref>{{cite news |date=May 31, 1934 |title='The Thin Man' Mystery Film with Drinks | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=15}}</ref> [[Harrison Carroll]] of ''[[The Los Angeles Herald-Express]]'' wrote that it was "one of the cleverest adaptations of a popular novel that Hollywood has ever turned out".<ref name="bryant" /> The film was such a box-office success that it spawned five [[The Thin Man (film series)|sequels]]: * ''[[After the Thin Man]]'' (1936) * ''[[Another Thin Man]]'' (1939) * ''[[Shadow of the Thin Man]]'' (1941) * ''[[The Thin Man Goes Home]]'' (1944) * ''[[Song of the Thin Man]]'' (1947) ''The Thin Man'' was voted one of the ten best pictures of 1934 by ''[[Film Daily]]'''s annual poll of critics.<ref>{{cite book |last=Alicoate|first=Jack|date=1935|title=The 1935 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures, 17th Annual Edition|publisher=The Film Daily|page=59|url=https://archive.org/details/filmdailyyearboo00film_5/page/58/mode/2up|access-date=2022-07-23|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> In 2002, critic [[Roger Ebert]] added the film to his list of Great Movies.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies |title=Great Movies |work=rogerebert.com |last=Ebert |first=Roger |access-date=July 1, 2017}}</ref> Ebert praised William Powell's performance in particular, stating that Powell "is to dialogue as Fred Astaire is to dance. His delivery is so droll and insinuating, so knowing and innocent at the same time, that it hardly matters what he's saying".<ref>Ebert, Roger. 22 Dec. 2002, ''[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-thin-man-1934 The Thin Man]''. Accessed 1 January 2022</ref> The Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]] cited ''The Thin Man'' as one of his favorite films.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Thomas-Mason |title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |website=Far Out |date=12 January 2021 |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date=20 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies! | url = http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | archive-date = 27 March 2010 | df = dmy-all}}</ref> The film is 32nd on the [[American Film Institute]]'s 2000 list [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]]<ref>{{cite web|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-laughs/ |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> and was nominated for the following lists: * 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> * 2002: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-passions|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions|access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> * 2003: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains]]: ** [[Nick and Nora Charles|Nick & Nora Charles]] – Heroes<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-heroes-villians|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains |access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> * 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]: ** Nora Charles: "I read where you were shot five times in the tabloids". :: Nick Charles: "It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movie-quotes|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes|access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> * 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition|title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |access-date=2022-01-01}}</ref> The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''The Thin Man'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref> ===Accolades=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"} |- ! Award ! Category ! Nominee(s) ! Result ! {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |- | rowspan="4"| [[7th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]] | [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] | [[Hunt Stromberg]] | {{nom}} | rowspan="4"| <ref name="oscars">{{cite web |title=The 7th Academy Awards {{!}} 1935 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1935 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=October 8, 2014 |access-date=April 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310140101/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1935 |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> |- | [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] | [[W.S. Van Dyke]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] | [[William Powell]] | {{nom}} |- |{{Award category|#eedd82|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adaptation]]}} | [[Albert Hackett]] and [[Frances Goodrich]] | {{nom}} |} ==Box office== ''The Thin Man'' earned total [[Theatrical rental|theater rentals]] of $1,423,000, with $818,000 from the US and Canada and $605,000 in other foreign rentals, resulting in a profit of $729,000.<ref name=mannix /><ref name=mannixa /> ==Trailer== [[File:The Thin Man trailer (1934).webm|thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=0:04|[[:C:File:The Thin Man trailer (1934).webm|Trailer]] for ''The Thin Man'']] The trailer contained specially filmed footage in which Nick Charles (William Powell) is seen on the cover of the Dashiell Hammett novel ''The Thin Man''. Nick Charles then steps out of the cover to talk to fellow detective [[Philo Vance]] (also played by Powell) about his latest case. Charles mentions he hasn't seen Vance since ''[[The Kennel Murder Case (film)|The Kennel Murder Case]]'', a film in which Powell played Vance, released in October 1933, just seven months prior to the release of ''The Thin Man''. Charles goes on to explain to Vance that his latest case revolves around a "tall, thin man" (referring to Clyde Wynant's character), just before clips of the film are shown. ==Adaptations== ''The Thin Man'' was dramatized as a radio play on an hour-long broadcast of ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' on June 8, 1936. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, William Henry, and Thomas Jackson reprised their film roles, and W. S. Van Dyke was host.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/LuxRadioTheater360608TheThinMan |title=The Thin Man |website=Lux Radio Theatre |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=2015-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Lux+Radio+Theatre |title=The Lux Radio Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-12-01 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924084141/http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Lux%20Radio%20Theatre |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Home media== Long available on VHS and DVD, ''The Thin Man'' was released on [[Blu-ray]] Disc by the [[Warner Archive Collection]] on July 30, 2019. The 1080p high-definition master was made from a 4K restoration based on new transfers of the picture's best surviving film elements, with digital correction of a multitude of defects seen in earlier home-media releases. Blu-ray.com reported that the film "looks exceptional and, aside from a true 4K option, will likely never get a better home video release". Extras include the theatrical trailer, the 1936 ''Lux Radio Theatre'' broadcast, and the 1958 second-season premiere of the [[The Thin Man (TV series)|NBC television series]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Thin-Man-Blu-ray/44357/#Review |title=The Thin Man Blu-ray Review |publisher=Blu-ray.com |access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wbshop.com/products/the-thin-man-bd |title=The Thin Man (BD) |publisher=[[Warner Archive Collection]] |access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref> ==In popular culture== * The TV series ''[[The Thin Man (TV series)|The Thin Man]]'' ran from 1957 through 1959, starring [[Peter Lawford]] and [[Phyllis Kirk]].<ref>[http://ctva.biz/US/Crime/ThinMan.htm "The Thin Man"], ''Classic TV Archives''. Accessed: August 28, 2017</ref> * In the 1976 comedy spoof movie ''[[Murder by Death]]'', the characters of [[Nick and Nora Charles]] became Dick and Dora Charleston, played by [[David Niven]] and [[Maggie Smith]].<ref>{{AFI film|55829|Murder by Death}}</ref><ref>Looney, Deborah [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4720/murder-by-death#articles-reviews "Murder by Death (1976)"] [[TCM.com]]</ref> * Creators Rachel Cohn and David Levithan named their lead characters in the 2008 film ''[[Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'' as an homage to the characters in ''The Thin Man''.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95335682|title=The Real Couple Behind The "Infinite Playlist"|work=[[NPR|National Public Radio]]|date=October 3, 2008|accessdate=November 23, 2022}}</ref> * The 2022 science fiction novel ''The Spare Man'' by [[Mary Robinette Kowal]] is a sci-fi take on the Nick and Nora characters, but set in space.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://crimereads.com/on-writing-a-new-take-on-the-thin-man-set-in-space|title=ON WRITING A NEW TAKE ON THE THIN MAN, SET IN SPACE|date=November 11, 2022|accessdate=December 5, 2022}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb title}} * [https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-thin-man-am16530 ''The Thin Man'' at AllMovie] * {{AFI film}} * {{TCMDb title}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes}} * [https://archive.org/download/Lux01/Lux_36-06-08_The_Thin_Man.mp3 ''The Thin Man''] on [[Lux Radio Theater]]: June 8, 1936 * {{cite web |title=ABCs of The Thin Man (1934) |url=https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/the-abcs-of-the-thin-man/ |website=Nitrate Diva <!-- |language=en |date=5 March 2014 -->|date=5 March 2014}} {{Dashiell Hammett}} {{The Thin Man}} {{W. 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