What famous actor who played a movie detective also portrayed the Great Florenz Ziegfeld?
William Powell played Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in 1936. He also was Nick Charles in the Thin Man films. The Thin Man (1934) is a hardboiled detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. Although he never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a successful film series which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. A Thin Man television series followed in the 1950s. An early draft of the story, written several years before the published version, and now in print in several collections of Hammett’s work, does not mention the main characters of the novel, Nick and Nora Charles, and breaks off after ten chapters. It is about a quarter of the length of the finished book. The Thin Man was Hammett’s last novel.
William Powell played Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in 1936. He also was Nick Charles in the Thin Man films. The Thin Man (1934) is a hardboiled detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. Although he never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a successful film series which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy. A Thin Man television series followed in the 1950s. An early draft of the story, written several years before the published version, and now in print in several collections of Hammett’s work, does not mention the main characters of the novel, Nick and Nora Charles, and breaks off after ten chapters. It is about a quarter of the length of the finished book. The Thin Man was Hammett’s last novel. Lillian Hellman, in an introduction to a compilation of Hammett’s five novels, contemplated on several explanations for Hammett’s retirement as a novelist: Sources: http://www.imdb.
William Powell made a name for himselfas the Thin Man, but made two movies in which he played Florez Ziegfeld. Sources: IMdB.
