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I suppose when you call up and say you're going on location, your wife says 'Oh yes, location. You want the snowshoes or the pith helmet?'

10 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:55:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- He was with me in the African jungle, when we made 'Trader Horn'!

- And after a man has handled crocodiles, sharks, pythons and polar bears, you can't expect him to be afraid of a mere actor!

- There's only one thing I can never understand about that picture 'Eskimo', Woody.

- How did they tell you from the Polar Bears?

- He wore rubbers.

- I wore a hat!

- You must be pretty tough, Woody. When you have to plow through swamps, jungles, tropics and the Arctic.

- I suppose when you call up and say you're going on location, your wife says 'Oh yes, location. You want the snowshoes or the pith helmet?'

- Unfortunately, she doesn't say that. When I say I'm going on location, she just says, 'You are not!'

- I thought all about that traveling when the Lux Soap people asked me to do this broadcast.

- Isn't it funny? In the Arctic, soap is something they like to eat! In the tropics, they use soap for money.

- And here in Hollywood, soap is something they use to keep the stars beautiful!

- I can see that it keeps Myrna beautiful, but when are you going to start using it?

- Nice talk, nice talk! Well, I do use it in the bath and that's no kidding!

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The Thin Man (1936) Sound Clip

The Thin ManFunny quotes with sound clips from The Thin Man - radio drama based on Dashiell Hammett's book, first broadcast on Thursday August 06, 1936 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: William Powell (Nick), Myrna Loy (Nora), Porter Hall (Macauley), Minna Gombel (Mimi), Dorothy (Barbara Luddy), William Henry (Gilbert)

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