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The Silk Express (1933) Ray Enright

October 13th 2024

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My Friend Irma Goes West

In the sequel to "My Friend Irma," titled "My Friend Irma Goes West," Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, alongside John Lund, Maire Wilson, and Diana Lynn, embark on a new comedic journey directed by Hal Walker in 1950.

Up next on my Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis marathon is the sequel to 1949’s “My Friend Irma,” the 1950 film “My Friend Irma Goes West,” directed by Hal Walker and released the same years as their third movie “At War with the Army”. While we see a change of director, the main cast remains the same. Returning with Martin and Lewis are John Lund, Marie Wilson, and Diana Lynn. I must say, this is one of…

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Anna May Wong-Harold Huber "Lady from chungking" 1942, de William Nigh.

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, December 26, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Saturday, Dec. 31 THE THIN MAN Double Feature

8:00 p.m. THE THIN MAN (1934) A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

9:45 p.m. AFTER THE THIN MAN (1939) Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.

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The Life and Death of Harold Huber

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The Thin Man - W. S. Van Dyke (1934) ------------------------------------------------ Whodunit fan? Find more on Blackram Hall. Avatar pic by Mitchell Turek

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Episode 552 - Belgian, No Waffling (Hercule Poirot)

Hercule Poirot - Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian sleuth - is back on the big screen in A Haunting in Venice. To celebrate his return, we'll hear three old time radio adventures of Poirot starring Harold Huber as the detective. We'll hear "Death in the Golden Gate" (originally aired on Mutual on May 17, 1945), "The Adventure of the Money Mad Ghoul" (originally aired on Mutual on September 13, 1945) and the series' audition episode "The Case of the Roving Corpse."

Check out this episode!

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The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: William Axt.

The Thin Man (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke

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Frisco Jenny (1932) William A. Wellman

April 20th 2024

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Vintage Poster - Charlie Chan On Broadway

20th Century Fox (1937)

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The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: William Axt.

It’s just that I’m used to you, that’s all.

William Powell & Myrna Loy The Thin Man (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, August 29, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember  to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times  are Eastern.

Monday, Aug. 29 at 8:00 p.m. THE THIN MAN (1934) A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Saturday, Sept. 03 at 8:00 p.m.    DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.                                                                             

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Character actor Harold Huber

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The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)

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The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: William Axt.

I have seen W.S. Van Dyke’s The Thin Man several times, and I’ve read Dashiell Hammett’s novel, but I still can’t remember whodunit. Which is, I think, because it doesn’t really matter: The mystery is secondary to the banter of Nick and Nora and the eccentricity of the characters they encounter as her world of privilege marries with his world of cops and lowlifes. Most of the best mysteries, by which I mean those of Hammett and Raymond Chandler, are about atmosphere rather than crime: Those who want to try to solve the mystery along with the detective should read other writers who are more involved with planting clues and red herrings. The Thin Man may have benefited from MGM’s lack of interest in the project, which could have been swamped with the kind of second-guessing from the front office that often stifled the studio’s films. Instead, it was treated as a routine programmer whose stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, were second-tier and whose director, known as “One-Take Woody” Van Dyke, was known for getting things done quick and dirty – filming took only 16 days. But Powell and Loy became first-tier stars, and the movie earned four Oscar nominations (picture, actor, director, and screenplay) and was followed by five sequels. Powell has often struck me as a surprising star, with his big nose and his dubious chin, and I used to have trouble distinguishing him from Melvyn Douglas. Even now, if you asked me to say without hesitating whether it was Powell or Douglas in My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936), or Douglas or Powell in Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), I might stumble a bit. But he had undeniable chemistry with Loy, so much so that they got re-teamed in movies outside the Thin Man series like The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard, 1936), Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936), and others. The Thin Man also has a little more zip and zest than some of the films made after the Production Code clamped down, though Nick and Nora, like other married couples, were forced into twin beds. They still drink to an unholy excess, of course.

Al Hirschfeld's stunning THE THIN MAN cast