Thin Man (nuclear bomb) and the name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel "The Thin Man" and series of movies by the same name. The "Fat Man" bomb would be round and fat and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's character in "The Maltese Falcon". "Little Boy" would come last and be named only to contrast to the "Thin Man" bomb. Oppenheimer assembled a team at the Los Alamos Laboratory to work on plutonium gun design that included senior engineer Edwin McMillan and senior physicists Charles Critchfield and Joseph Hirschfelder. Critchfield had been working with sabots, which Oppenheimer believed would be required by the
After the Thin Man or short story. Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich wrote the screenplay. The film was second of six based on the characters of Nick and Nora: The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1937 for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film carries a 100% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and 89% audience rating. "After the Thin Man" grossed a total – domestic and foreign – of $3,165,000: $1,992,000 from the US and Canada and $1,173,000 elsewhere. It made a profit of $1,516,000. An hour-long radio adaptation of "After the Thin Man" was presented on the CBS "Lux Radio Theatre" on June 17,