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Myrna Loy and William Powell - Christmas morning conversation in The Thin Man (1934)
Illustration of William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles by Bob Harman
Happy Birthday William Horatio Powell | July 29th, 1892 – March 5th, 1984
Bill had a marvelous sense of humour. He often made jokes at his own expense. He pointed out, for instance, that he could never have become a for-real sleuth because, “I have never been able to solve anything in my life, not even high school algebra. I have to call in the entire household to help me find a collar button. I am absolutely not good as a detective without a Thin Man script.”
Bill loved practical jokes. When Loy turned thirty-five, he sent her a funeral wreath for her birthday, adorned with a ribbon that read, “Be brave, dear.” When fans elected her Queen of Hollywood, consort to Clark Gable’s King, Powell sent what looked like a florist’s box of long stemmed roses; it turned out to contain bunches of sour grapes and dry leaves, accompanied by a note that offered “With love, William the Fourth,” because Powell had come in fourth in the popularity poll conducted by Ed Sullivan that Gable won. On the day they were scheduled to plant their footprints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Loy and Powell alarmed Sid Grauman by showing up on Hollywood Boulevard laughing, each sporting a pair of floppy swim flippers large enough for Bigfoot. Powell said they wanted to make a big impression.
Happy 120th Birthday, William Powell (July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984)
“I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.”
-Myrna Loy
Bill Powell + cigarettes
The Thin Man’s Nick Charles Witty Lines
Blokes in the Twenties | William Powell
Myrna Loy and William Powell photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull
William Powell blows suave smoke rings in “The Thin Man” (1934)
014. My dream marriage would be to have a relationship just like Nick and Nora’s. I love how they relentlessly tease each other and yet despite all the jokes you can tell they both care about the other a great deal.
I keep in physical trim with my swimming pool. Every day I go up to it and give it a long piercing look. Also, I think a lot about tennis, and I talk a very good game of golf.
-William Powell on his exercise routine
Myrna Loy & William Powell in The Thin Man (1934, dir. Woody Van Dyke)
She grinned at me. “You got types?”
“Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”
-Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1929)
Myrna Loy and William Powell - Christmas morning conversation in The Thin Man (1934)
