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The Thin Man’s Nora Charles Witty Lines

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FILMS YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
⌐ Libeled Lady (1936)

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09/100 • {Myrna Loy}

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lucynic83:

250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ The Thin Man (1934)
Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?

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tracylord:

“I traveled with a sort of artistic avant-garde at the time [around 1925] - writers, would-be writers, painters, sculptors - young people in the arts who would have lived in Greenwich Village if we´d been in New York. Some of them decided that the name Williams was too ordinary for a performer. I resisted. I considered it a perfectly good name. They mentioned Earle Williams, Kathlyn Williams, and several other actors of that name, and started tossing around variations, awful combinations, really absurd. Some of them even suggested “Myrna Lisa,” playing on the Mona Lisa, which I found embarrassing. Then Peter Rurick, a wild Russian writer of free verse, suddenly came up with “Myrna Loy.” And I said, “What´s that?” It sounded all right, but I still wasn´t convinced about changing my name.

My Welsh friends, of course, have never been convinced. After all my years as Loy, Richard Burton would never introduce me by that name. Whenever we went anywhere, he always said, “Do you know Miss Williams?”

Myrna Loy, Being and Becoming

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Myrna Loy, circa 1930’s

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Myrna Loy

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tracylord:

★ My Classic OTPs (alphabetical order) - 16: William Powell & Myrna Loy

“It wasn´t a conscious thing. If you heard us talking in a room, you´d hear the same thing. He´d tease me a little, and there was sort of a blending which seemed to please people. Bill naturally is a witty man. He doesn´t have to have lines. […]

The first one [dog who played Asta], Skippy, bit me once, so our relationship was hardly idyllic. My relationship with Bill was. We became very close friends, but contrary to popular belief, we were never really married or even close to it. Oh, there were times when Bill had a crush on me and times when I had a crush on Bill, but we never made anything of it. We worked around it and stayed pals.” ~ Myrna Loy

Bill and Myrna were such a successful screen team, people outside Hollywood assumed they really were married. Not only did they get fan mail asking for marital advice, but when they went to San Francisco for location shooting on “After the Thin Man” (1936), with Bill´s girlfriend Jean Harlow who was along for the ride, they discovered they had been booked into the Bridal Suite as Mr. and Mrs. Powell. The ladies shared the suite, while Bill had to settle for a small room several floors below - “I never saw his room, so I don´t know how bad it was, but Bill complained bitterly, let me tell you, angling to get upstairs.”