Also, original coincided with end of Prohibition, drinking on screen was new!

Van Dyke! Wyler directed Myrna in Best Years of Our Lives (Best Picture, 1946?).

Libeled Lady.

Think Howard Hawks wrote some of Test Pilot, closest Myrna came to playing a "Hawks woman" (Bacall maybe best known example). You can tell, when she threatens Gable with a bull in their opening scene!

Billie Burke - Glinda the Good Witch in Oz!

Myrna played Asian, also blackface, apologized for both. Also worked for the Red Cross, toured veteran hospitals & canteens, UN, UNESCO, Housing Rights, lifelong Democrat (so also falsely accused Commie), campaigned for Kennedy. Myrna Loy, indeed.

Wait till they find out about Vertigo!

Nick is Greek in the novel Charles is anglicized, MGM totally bastardizes it for Goes Home.

They are wonderful in Libeled Lady as well - different characters, still believable.

Wartime.

McMillan & Wife.

Production code came in after the original - no shooting Nick in the tabloids anymore! Not as much braless Nora, either - sadly!

When did we ever see Nick throw himself into the barrel of a gun to protect his spouse? Nora did.

Nora Charles made Myrna a star, she went on strike for wage parity as a result - successfully!

Nick is a kept man, he gets back in the biz @ her behest. She tracks him down @ the speakeasy, matches him drink for drink & surprises her detective husband with news of his impending paternity. No Thin Man without that Thin Lady!

Jane does not star in 3rd Man.

Supposedly Lillian Hellman inspired Nora, they had a long, challenging relationship. Decades later, someone said, "Now Lillian's got him, she doesn't know what to do with him!"

Didn't Hammett work for Pinkerton's? "Write what you know" - he did!

Myrna said Asta made it into the Time's crossword puzzle before she did!

Face plant! Did it in one take, she was a dancer. Director Woody Van Dyke auditioned Myrna by pushing her in his pool at a party - she passed!