Beneath all the casualness and all the wisecracking, there's a lovely, wholesome relationship. Something really deep and sweet, and inspiring.

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:25 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- As you know The Thin Man was a best selling novel by Dashiell Hammett. Hunt Stromberg down at the studio, MGM, got a hold of it and brought it to me.

- Woody, he said, If you'll make this picture, I'll buy the story!

- Well, I read it. And while it was a good enough mystery story, there was something else about the book that struck me.

- Here was something new and fresh and very charming. A romance between a man and his wife.

- It's the story of a couple of kids that understood each other and had a blessed confidence in each other.

- Beneath all the casualness and all the wisecracking, there's a lovely, wholesome relationship. Something really deep and sweet, and inspiring.

- Well, we decided to make the picture. Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich wrote a swell script.

- William Powell and Myrna Loy played the parts. And how! They played them beautifully! Because Powell was just Powell, and Loy was just Loy...

- Both of them wisecracking all the time and clowning right through the picture!

- I suppose you know that plenty of motion pictures take from two months to a year to shoot. We did The Thin Man in sixteen days, retakes and all!

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