Becoming Nick and Nora: The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

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Rob Kozlowski

Becoming Nick and Nora

The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

Rob Kozlowski

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Applause
01 August 2023

Individual actors & performers; Film theory & criticism; Film & movie: styles & genres

As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the husband-and-wife team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedic delight that was the initial The Thin Man through its five sequels as well as eight other films (including the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld and Manhattan Melodrama), Powell and Loy were cemented in the public imagination as Hollywood’s happiest married couple.

In Becoming Nick and Nora, comedy writer and Hollywood historian Rob Kozlowski follows the winding path that Powell and Loy’s screen personas took over their careers. Studios originally cultivated the two as villains in the silent era: Powell as a mustachioed, swashbuckling fiend and Loy as an “exotic” adversary. With the rise of talkies, the two managed to broaden their range beyond villainous stereotypes, but it took several false starts before they achieved their lasting legacy as Nick and Nora. Packed with behind-the-scenes details and memorable characters, this is a lively look at two tinseltown icons and a film series that remains beloved nearly a century later.

By: Rob Kozlowski
Imprint: Applause
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9781493062850
ISBN 10: 1493062859
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rob Kozlowski is an author, teacher, script reader, and journalist who currently reports for Pensions & Investments newspaper. A script reader for Netflix since 2019, Kozlowski was a faculty member in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago for nearly twenty years, taught comedy writing at Second City Training Center in Chicago for fourteen years, and has written two other non-fiction books: The Art of Chicago Improv: Short Cuts to Long-Form Improvisation and The Actor’s Guide to the Internet. Rob is based in Palmer, Alaska.