Seasonal stuff

[kate_schaefer]

My favorite Christmas movie of all time: The Thin Man.

By several orders of magnitude.

Comments

[bittermint.livejournal.com]

Heh. We watched it on Christmas Eve!

And After the Thin Man is set on New Year's Eve. ;)

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favorites as well -- Nick and Nora rock!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Astonishingly, I have never seen After the Thin Man>/i>. The library has it, so I will rectify this soon.

Happy New Year!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. It's so nice to see a movie in which the dialogue is actually clever and witty, rather than just intended to be clever and witty.

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Nora: "I read you were shot five times in the tabloids."
Nick: "It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."

>clink!

[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

I love that movie too. :)

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Will you bring me five more martinis, Leo and line them up right here?

Clink!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

It's at the height of screwball perfection.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I think I want to be Nora and dress in silk bias cut gowns for going out to dinner and martinis every night. And dancing.

MKK

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

We just watched it a few weeks ago. :-)

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Dancing is important. It looks like dancing and walking Asta the wonder dog are the only forms of exercise the Charleses get.

Along with silk bias gowns, one needs the frivolous hats.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Marking you as people of taste and distinction.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it! Does that mean you're going to take me off your "people of taste and distinction" list? I promise I'll see it in the next year!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are other ways to get on that list.

Wait a minute. I have no such list. Lists are inventions of the devil.

Happy New Year, anyway.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Here's the 1936 Lux Radio Theater version of "The Thin Man" -- an hourlong (with ads) adaptation with a large, large portion of the original cast. Alas, we don't have the scene of Nick shooting balloons off the tree with his BB gun.

And here's the 1940 Lux presentation of

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Here's the 1936 <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux01/Lux_36-06-08_The_Thin_Man.mp3">Lux Radio Theater</a> version of "The Thin Man" -- an hourlong (with ads) adaptation with a large, large portion of the original cast. Alas, we don't have the scene of Nick shooting balloons off the tree with his BB gun.

And here's the 1940 Lux presentation of <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux05/Lux_40-06-17_After_the_Thin_Man.mp3>"After The Thin Man"</a>, also with many original voices (including, of course, both Nick and Nora, as previously).

And just because I'm so swell, here's their 1944 <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux09/Lux_44-01-03_Shadow_of_a_Doubt.mp3">"Shadow of a Doubt,"</a> in which William Powell plays Uncle Charlie.

Highly recommended in passing, Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade in <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux08/Lux_1943-02-08_TheMalteseFalcon.mp3">"The Maltese Falcon"</a> just because it's so good, but now I have to stop or I'll be recomending things until I fall asleep on the keyboard.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

You are swell. I think the Lux Theater stuff was a fabulous effort, and I've enjoyed some of the shows when I've run into them from time to time. Radio plays aren't something I seek out on purpose, though.