Reno grew to become synonymous with quickie divorces, and Hollywood films of the period would often cast Reno as a dusty backdrop for a character wanting to close her marriage, like Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, or Pauline Moore in the 1938 movie Charlie Chan in Reno. This is how Reno tends to run: sanctioning debauchery a person minute, then proscribing it the future. But then the silver mines went bust, and the city just about did as well.