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Thomas Paine Podcast

Thin Man

Thomas Paine Podcast

mike moore

Daily News, Philosophy, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

Hollywood, California, Monday, June 8th.

0:17.0

The Max Radio Theater, presented from its new home on Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California.

0:30.0

Luxe presents Hollywood.

0:32.0

Such great personalities at William Powell, Merna Lloyd, W.S. Van Dyke, Lida Barra, James Seymour, Millagombo, Porter Hall, and many others.

0:41.0

We'll take part in this presentation, sent to you by the makers of Luxe Toilet, so the beauty soap of the stars.

0:51.0

Appearing before a distinctly Hollywood audience, Mr. Powell, Ms. Lloyd and the cast of 18 great players,

0:56.0

presents a play that has broken box office records from coast to coast, the Thin Man.

1:09.0

And as producer tonight, we present the director who did the Thin Man on the screen.

1:13.0

Together with such triumphs as Naughty Marietta, Crater Horn, Rose Marie, I live my life, and countless other smash hit pictures.

1:20.0

Mr. W.S. Van Dyke, Mr. Van Dyke.

1:27.0

Hello, everybody. Well, it's a great scene of the Luxe Radio Theater tonight.

1:34.0

In our audience, we have Betty Davis, Jimmy and Lucille Gleason, Bob Armstrong, Oli Olson of Olson of Johnson,

1:41.0

Stuart W. and Jimmy Starr at the Inense Communist.

1:45.0

Evelyn Vanable, Mr. Mrs. Lyon, Sleshing of the Thin Man.

1:50.0

Maybe it would interest you on a little inside information on the show we're doing tonight for Thin Man,

1:55.0

and about William Powell and Colonel Lloyd, who are going to do it for you.

1:58.0

As you know, the Thin Man was the best selling novel by National Hammond.

2:02.0

Hunstram Berk, down at the studio, MGM, got a hold of it and brought it to me.

2:06.0

Woody said, if you'll make this picture, I'll buy it a story. Well, I read it, and a lot of it was a good enough mystery story.

2:12.0

There was something else about the book The Struckly. Here was something new and fresh, very charming.

2:17.0

A romance between a man and his wife.

2:19.0

It's a story of a couple of kids that understood each other and had a blessed coffin as in each other.

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