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Thursday | Metro Santa Cruz

American Gangster

I T IS well known that the last movie John Dillinger watched was Woody Van Dyke's fine, compact Manhattan Melodrama .

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Crime Movies, Dillinger, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Action Movies, Manhattan Melodrama, Michigan City, IN

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Vue Weekly

Public Enemies

The very public slaying of legendary bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre in 1934 is as much a moment in the history of film as American crime.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Crime Movies, Dillinger, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Action Movies, Manhattan Melodrama, Clark Gable

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Connect Savannah

What's Next: Dinner and a laugh

If dinner theater is your cup of tea there are two - count 'em - two opportunities for you this month.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Cheaper by the Dozen, Comedy Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Isle of Hope, GA

Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Dispatch

Gangster movie gives fresh look at old story

Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Near the end of Michael Mann's new gangster drama, "Public Enemies," John Dillinger sits down in a movie theater to watch the Clark Gable/Myrna Loy gangster picture, "Manhattan Melodrama." Want to see? * 'Public Enemies,' directed by Michael Mann, ...

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Dillinger, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Biography Movies, Manhattan Melodrama, Clark Gable, Marion Cotillard

Seattle Times

Life, movies, and what we don't see

In " Public Enemies ," which opens today, we see a movie rarity: people in a movie actually going to a movie.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Manhattan Melodrama, William Powell

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Philly.com

Carrie Rickey: Myrna Loy, The Public Enemy's Pinup

A Myrna Loy sandwich between the moustachioed Clark Gable and William Powell. According to Michael Mann's Public Enemies , it was FBI agent Melvin Purvis who set the trap that caught notorious bankrobber John Dillinger .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, Manhattan Melodrama, The Thin Man, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Horror Movies, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Love Me Tonight, Adventure, Musical Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Jun 24, 2009

NorthJersey.com

TV best bets

William Powell and Myrna Loy continue their roles as amateur sleuths Nick and Nora Charles in this 1936 crime caper.

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Related Topix: The Thin Man, Crime Movies, After the Thin Man, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, William Powell, Entertainment, Television

Wed Jun 17, 2009

The Phoenix

What John did and saw

Myrna Loy starts out as Clark Gable's mistress, ends up as William Powell's wife.

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Related Topix: Manhattan Melodrama, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Dillinger, Action Movies, Biography Movies, Clark Gable, William Powell, Public Enemies, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Newsday.com

Jon & Kate plus '8 in Enough'

Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo starred in the remake. In a nod to the times, the wife's eight kids included African-American and Asian-American adoptees.

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Related Topix: Cheaper by the Dozen, Comedy Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Action TV, Smallville, Children TV, Eight is Enough

Tue May 26, 2009

Boxoffice

Great Moments In Comic Timing

Well, it's a lazy holiday Monday, and so what better time to enjoy the great Myrna Loy responding to the great William Powell with one of the most perfect takes in the history of American film.

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Related Topix: William Powell, Angels & Demons

Mon May 18, 2009

The Hartford Courant

On Tonight: 'Bachelorette' Enters, '24' Leaves : Roger Catlin | TV Eye

Among the fallout from last season's "The Bachelor" was a runner up who is a contender on "Dancing with the Stars" and a third place winner who gets to comb through her own group of suitors on "The Bachelorette" . Jillian Harris will have to meet 30 of them in the premiere, and dismiss 10 of them by the end of the two hour premiere.

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Related Topix: 24, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Bachelor, Reality TV, Dancing With The Stars, Folk, The Kennedys

Thu May 14, 2009

Denver Post

Bar & Grilled: Mark Obmascik

BAR: THE THIN MAN The Thin Man, at 2015 E. 17th Ave., is a properly thin bar. The joint is shoehorned between St.

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Related Topix: The Thin Man, Crime Movies, Denver, CO, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, William Powell, Entertainment

Thu Apr 30, 2009

Associated Content

Remembering a Classic TV Legend: Sheldon Leonard

He completed a couple of other forgettable movie projects before he finally hit pay dirt with a bit part in a movie that would go on to be a part of a celebrated film series.

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Related Topix: Sheldon Leonard, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, The Thin Man, Crime Movies, William Powell

Sat Mar 28, 2009

BellaOnline

Libeled Lady - A Review

His paper is being sued by socialite Connie Allenbury Myrna Loy) over misrepresentation.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Libeled Lady, Jean Harlow, William Powell

Sat Mar 21, 2009

Adfreak

Benjamin Moore has every color you'd want

In a famous scene in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House , the Myrna Loy character gives the painter elaborately detailed instructions about the color she wants for each room a 'for instance, an apple red that's "somewhere between a healthy Winesap and an unripened Jonathan." New ads for Benjamin Moore's youngish-and-hippish Ben line of paints ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Fri Feb 27, 2009

Edge San Francisco

SF Hit List: Feb 27

Oh, a late-season bout of the flu has Hit List feeling all Myrna Loy in "The Rains Came," and there's no Tyrone Powers around to feed us tea and help us cheat at solitaire.

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Related Topix: Oakland, CA

Sun Feb 15, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Man-Proof

PROOF is a good example of a typical glossy MGM romantic comedy-drama from the '30s, starring an attractive quartet of actors: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, and Walter Pidgeon.

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Related Topix: Three Loves Has Nancy, Comedy Movies, Rosalind Russell, Franchot Tone, Walter Pidgeon

Thu Jan 08, 2009

Fredericksburg.com

A Dash of Nick & Nora

Though Hammett was just 39 at its release, "The Thin Man" would be his last novel.

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Related Topix: The Thin Man, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Vocal, Dashiell Hammett, William Powell, Peter Lawford

Tue Jan 06, 2009

International Herald Tribune

Think Again: The 10 Best American Movies

This article is taken from Stanley Fish's blog "Think Again" It's Top Ten time again, and like everyone else I have a list, in my case a list of the 10 best American movies ever.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Drama, The Best Years of Our Lives, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo

Tue Dec 30, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Drink your favourite film star: a cocktail primer

Ever fancied sipping a Shirley Temple on the rocks, or glugging down a half-pint of Marlene Dietrich? This New Year's Eve you can, with these recipes of cocktails christened after stars of the silver screen ...

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Related Topix: Drink, Cocktails, Life, Food, Recipes, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, The Thin Man, Crime Movies, William Powell

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