#Nora Charles

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Christmas Countdown [5/12] The Thin Man (1934)

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The Thin Man lobby card (1934)

[lavoixhumaine]

Tim Minear, I got a fucking bone to pick with you.

How the fuck did Nick and Nora, made during the infamous Hays Code era by the way, make out more times than Bobby and Athena? Like I’m not counting (I am and it is zero) but how is that exactly possible?

The film’s characters, supposedly married, weren’t even allowed for sleep in one bed because of those ridiculous rules and yet they seemed to convey more affection and sexual tension.

Meanwhile, you have no such restrictions with these actors today. We’re not even asking them to have movie magic sex, sir. We were just hoping for some actual fun sleuthing adventures with our favorite chaotic couple.

—because that was the expectation you set when you said they were going to be like The Thin Man.

(This should have been a red flag honestly because—in my opinion—apart from “The Thrilling Adventure Hour’s Beyond Belief” with Frank and Sadie Doyle, there has never been a truly good adaptation or inspired piece of The Thin Man which actually has led me to think it’s some kind of curse on its own, like a mini-Macbeth)

How do you reference The Thin Man regarding the episode you wrote? Like sir, Nick and Nora were a rich, chaotic, drunk honeymooning, sleuthing couple with a funny little dog who just happened to solve crimes for funsies because the wise-cracking wife and her cute little nose would not let her husband stay out of trouble.

They made sleuthing look fun and marriage seem sexy which was already a revolutionary idea in the silver screens of the 1930s…like that is the complete opposite of what you wrote in “Abandon ‘Ships”, Mr. Minear. Did you even watch the movies or did someone just say, ‘hey, you know those black and white movies…?’

I don’t mind what you did in the episode. I mind that you uttered complete bullshit about it saying it’s like The Thin Man movies because, no, hell no. Not even close. I really don’t get how you pulled that comment from your ass, sir. Respectfully.

So did you lie or did you just choose to reference the film series because this is another jab at the Oscars? Because as it happens, they also presented the actress who played Nora, Myrna Loy (sidenote: everyone knew she should have won for the 1946 film “The Best Years of Our Lives”) an Honorary Oscar.

So what I’m actually saying is, you kinda suck for lying through your stupid teeth, Tim Minear. So like go kick rocks or something. And maybe don’t ever speak of The Thin Man again if you’re just gonna lie about it.

[queer-cinephile]

our upscaled and colorized versions of these stills of Nick Charles (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) in The Thin Man (1934)

Note: I love this scene because it breaks the common trope of a character seeing their partner with another person and immediately assuming they're cheating. Instead, their relationship and trust is strong enough that even when Nora walks in and sees Nick embracing another woman, she immediately understands the situation and they just make silly faces at each other.

[live-and-die-in-la]

Your Best Laid Plans:

Later That Night:

[djkerr]

The Thin Man (1934) dir. W.S. Van Dyke

Asta and Nora's entrance

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

We forget sometimes that the essence of democracy is to question.  In those days [McCarthy Era], people thought - some still do - that liberal meant Communist.  To me a liberal is one who moves slightly left when the Fascists get too strong and slightly right when the Communists get too pushy.  A real liberal has to be flexible that way.  ….  I believe in liberality of thought and have no time for any kind of totalitarianism - be it right or left.

Myrna Loy

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Happy Birthday Myrna Loy in heaven 🎂🔍🎂🔍🎂

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

hey tumblr wouldn't it be so funny if we all got into The Thin Man (1934-1947) movies? Like wouldn't that be so random XD

So goncharov so House MD revival so Dracula daily.

2025 is the year we bring back noir. let's start with witty married detectives. for the bit.

[maple-syrup-enthusiast]

warmup

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i decided to say a hearty 'fuck you' to yt, so here's the link to the Nick and Nora Charles Best-Of on Gdrive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OJlr3k3ffYKL0_hF87cvdJSnY4lRtRao/view?usp=drive_link

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Nick and Nora Charles 🕵️‍♂️ [the thin man, dashiell hammett] sketch

06/08/2023

Today I finished this book. Didn't care much about the mystery itself until half of the book, but I loved these two and their interactions since the very beginning. Weird thing to say, but they gave me Gomez x Morticia vibes, but maybe it was just that they're such a healthy couple.

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Thin Man

[lavoixhumaine]

i am now in a world where these two—

and these two—

are being referenced together and i am fucking living for it.

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of all the great moments in the thin man movies, i think my favorite is in ‘shadow of the thin man’ when nora charles starts absent-mindedly eating the hot dog someone foisted on her at the wrestling arena. nobody does it like her

[j-august]

"What do you think will happen to Mimi and Dorothy and Gilbert now?" "Nothing new. They'll go on being Mimi and Dorothy and Gilbert just as you and I will go on being us and the Quinns will go on being the Quinns. Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's." "That may be," said Nora, "but it's all pretty unsatisfactory."

Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man