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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Thin Man is the third working.* Shot in 36 days with extreme care by the same producer and director, again using a script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst...
...Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...
Hilarious scene: Nick's underworld friends bringing their babies (about two dozen) to sing Happy Birthday to Nick Jr. When they proffer baloney, salami, beer and pop for refreshments, Nick sends for ice cream. "It will be up in a minute," he says. Queasy Nora's ageless comeback: "You're telling...
George Roberts, who played for the Crimson in 1933, will counter for St. Nick's with the former Eli players, Bob Cooke and Billy Moore, as his flankmen. Captain Blake Shepard, former Eli star, and Bob Burke of Princeton form the blue line while Peter Grayee of Yale will tend...
Thomas V. Healey '40 veteran tackle, was the only Harvard representative on Princeton's all-opponent team named recently be Coach Tad Weiman. Healey will find as his running mate one of the East's few All-Americans. Nick Drahos, Cornell's powerhouse Junior, with whom he was named on the CRIMSON'S All-Ivy League team...