Film Fest - Loy and Powell

On a bit of a Myrna Loy/William Powell kick around here!  Just watched I Love You Again - amnesia has never been so much fun.  I loved Powell's character's reaction to waking to find a stuffed squirrel staring at him from his bedside.

William, Myrna, and a Squirrel - not from the film, but funny.  More at Film Noire Photos

I'd recommend starting out with that classic The Thin Man, then if you enjoy their chemistry, explore that film's several sequels and then others like Double Wedding.  (Earlier POST.)

HERE's a good review for The Thin Man.

Film Fest - Powell & Loy

After the on(small)screen Moonlighting's Cybil Shepard and Bruce Willis, I was in a mood for chemistry on a bigger screen.  So I'm revisiting Myrna Loy and William Powell - B & W film's most chemical couple.

Double Wedding is a romp.  Its set-up is close to that of Moonlighting: rich, glamorous, control-freak woman meets brash, odd-ball man who shakes up her neat world.  Shepard's character was a model, Loy's designs and retails fashion; Powell's character is an artist, Willis's character is a detective and a dreamer, a con-man, a fantasist...   Chemistry ensues.

Both the TV show and the film are charming.

Double Wedding film still borrowed from Immortal Ephemera

My favorite of the Loy/Powell films is probably still The Thin Man and its sequels - just sooo '30s sophisticated and funny - with Love Crazy in second place.  Double Wedding is interesting mostly because Powell plays a Bohemian, rather than his usual man-about-town.  Frankly, I'll take Loy or Powell in any movie, by themselves, but best of all together.

(The website Immortal Ephemera has a good summary of Double Wedding with more movie stills.)