Watts grew up in DeLand and played in the Florida A&M University ... band at Sugar Ray Robinson's Harlem lounge. Known as the "Thin Man" because of his whippet-thin physique, Watts recorded ...

Ironically, MGM considered "The Thin Man" a "B" picture ... recently come to the studio from Warner Brothers, because he had played detective Philo Vance in a series of four films.