Screwball Skewers Nora’s Rich Kin: Commentary on After the Thin Man (1936 film)

Film historian and author Rob Kozlowski joins Aliece Pickett, founder of the Film Society of Screwball Comedy (FSOSC.org), to discuss the sleuthing couple, Nick and Nora Charles, and how Nick skewers Nora’s rich relations in the Screwball Comedy masterpiece After The Thin Man (1936). The film stars William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart; directed by W.S. Van Dyke; screenplay by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich and story by Dashiell Hammett.
Sources:
Becoming Nick & Nora, The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy, by Rob Kozlowski (Applause, 2023)
The Star Machine, by Jeanine Basinger (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)
Dashiell Hammett, A Life, by Diane Johnson (Random House, 1983)
The Lion of Hollywood, by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
Hank & Jim, The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster 2017)
“Let’s Misbehave” (1927) music and lyrics by Cole Porter, performed by Irving Aaronson and his Commanders (1928).
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