William Powell News

William Powell and Myrna Loy always will be remembered as the charming Nick and Nora Charles of the "Thin Man" movies.

Jan Showers describes this sunroom in a Dallas house as a "very happy room," with plenty of natural light and perfect proportions.

The Fox Theatre's fall/winter classics series continues with William Powell in "The Thin Man" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 17 W. Congress St.

There is perhaps no movie duo more enduring or loveable than that of William Powell and Myrna Loy, made famous and best known as Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man series.

To this day, "Life With Father" is Broadway's longest-running non-musical play. It tallied 3,224 performances from November 1939 to July 1947.

When summer movies' bombast leaves EW pop culture columnist Stephen King exhausted, he returns to these perennials at the video store that simply never disappoint - "Die Hard," "Titanic," "The Blair Witch Project" and more.

When summer movies' bombast leaves EW pop culture columnist Stephen King exhausted, he returns to these perennials at the video store that simply never disappoint - "Die Hard," "Titanic," "The Blair Witch Project" and more.

It is hot, muggy, and miserable. Perfect movie weather. And the Brattle will help you spend the entire day in its air conditioning by showing every movie in "The Thin Man" series, a trick the theater first pulled 20 years ago.

I am pleased to announce that Laura Jacobs, the Myrna Loy to my William Powell , now has her own site up, handsomely designed by Bill Valentine , which serves as a fitting album for her new novel, The Bird Catcher .

There was family pressure, there was statehouse intrigue. In the end, at high personal cost, the guv decided to stick to principle and do the right thing.

THE BARONESS AND THE BUTLER is a modest 20th Century-Fox comedy about a butler whose life becomes very complicated after he is elected to the Hungarian Parliament -- as a member of the opposition to his employer, Prime Minister Albert Sandor .

Comments Share Carole Lombard's slapstick legacy shines at Seattle Art Museum Carole Lombard, the queen of screwball, is the subject of a film retrospective at Seattle Art Museum.

Among the wildlife at Florida's springs: an egret on the Wakulla River. Local lore says "Wakulla" means "mysterious waters," but it's more likely that it comes from the Timucuan word for "spring." Women dressed as mermaids are part of the allure of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park.

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

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

Guitar in hand and alone onstage, Leo Kottke began his set at City Winery on Tuesday night with his song " William Powell ," an instrumental named after the American film actor, with the air of a samba by Dorival Caymmi.

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

Students from the Auburn University choirs will perform at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York on Sunday afternoon.

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.

A Spanish villa that silver-screen stars Carol Lombard and William Powell once called home has come on the market at $1,395,000 in L.A.'s Whitley Heights neighborhood.