- Description
- vii, 226 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, mystery-solving couple Nick and Nora Charles into American culture. MGM sold millions of movie tickets casting William Powell and Myrna Loy as this classiest of romantic couples. Over 14 years and six films, these stars navigated grave periods of history: the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. The novel and films live on as gems of a unique gritty sophistication. This complete history of The Thin Man series covers the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and conflicts behind these classic films. With a cast of hundreds, we see Hammett, his lover Lillian Hellman, and their friend Dorothy Parker fight alcoholism, sexual convention and Senator Joe McCarthy in culture wars of eerie contemporaneity"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Film criticism.
- Critiques cinématographiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Nick Charles and the Thin Man -- Dashiell Hammett, Acts I and II -- The Thin Man movie -- William Powell -- Myrna Loy -- The rest of the cast and crew -- The Thin Man and race -- After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man -- Hammett, Act III -- Three more Thin Man sequels, Hammett, Act IV -- Epilogue: Who was the Thin Man?
- ISBN
- 9781476686578
- 1476686572
- 9781476651026 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023059562
- OCLC
- YBP 2023059562
- Author
Zwerling, Philip, author.
- Title
In search of the Thin Man : Dashiell Hammett, William Powell and the classic film series / Philip Zwerling.
- Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.