Claudia Morgan had the female lead role of Nora Charles throughout the program's entire nine-year run. https://www.amazon.com/Thin-Man-Blu-ray-William-Powell/dp/B07T6S1CKT Seeing Robbie the Robot from the movie, "The Forbidden Planet," from 1956 was also treat. He calls in … Phyllis Kirk and Peter Lawford made a nice couple in this series, which is now almost six decades old. The Thin Man (1934) is the first installment of a popular series of six films casting a sophisticated, glamorous, pleasure-seeking, and urbane husband-wife detective team (William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles). The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook. Yet it was made as an inexpensive B-picture. Van Dyke. With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger. "The Thin Man" was one of the most popular films of 1934, inspired five sequels, and was nominated for four Oscars (best picture, actor, direction and screenplay). The Adventures of the Thin Man radio series, initially starring Les Damon, was broadcast on all four major radio networks during the years 1941 to 1950. The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel The Thin Man (1933) by Dashiell Hammett. Directed by W.S. He appears to have a clean-shaven, middle-aged looking face with wrinkles, sunken eyes he always seems to keep shut, sharp cheekbones and a deathly pale complexion. Based on the novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (New York, 1934). The Thin Man. A delightful episode of "The Thin Man." It appeared in book form the following month. The best film in the series came first: The Thin Man (1934), W.S. 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