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Hammett’s most recognizable impact on the film industry began withThe Thin Man’ssuccess, making Myrna Loy a star and reinvigorating William Powell’s career. The film spawned not only the series ofThin Manfilms and helped to pair the actors in a half-dozen other pictures, it also contributed, along withIt Happened One Night(Frank Capra, 1934), to establishing screwball comedy as a popular sub-genre, while creating a precedent for films featuring married couples lovingly at war with one another.The Maltese Falcon(1941) had a similar effect, augmenting Humphrey Bogart’s success on his way to the triumph of