Like *Tarzan*, another popular 1930s MGM film series, *The Thin Man* attempted to adapt to the increasingly conservative mindset of the Hays Office censors by giving its protagonists an adorable child, thus making the franchise sweeter and what we would call “family-friendly” today. The result of such efforts was *Another Thin Man*, a 1939 crime comedy directed by W. S. Van Dyke, the third instalment of the series.…







