Myrna Loy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in 14 films together, including five subsequent Thin Man films. Although Loy was never nominated for a competitive Academy Award, in March 1991 she was presented with an Honorary Academy Award with the inscription "In recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances." During World War II, Loy served as assistant to the director of military and naval welfare for the Red Cross. She was later appointed a member-at-large of the U.S. Commission to UNESCO. Her acting career by no means ended in the 1940s. She continued to actively pursue stage and television appearances in addition to films in subsequent decades.
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- Born:
- Aug 2, 1905 In Radersburg, Montana, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 167
- First Appeared:
- In the movie 1925 Studio Tour 1925-04-09
- Latest Project:
- Movie Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn 2015-08-18
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Herself (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 |
| Movie | 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage) | 2009-07-02 |
| Movie | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Gertie Waxted (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
| Movie | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
| Movie | William Powell: A True Gentleman | 2005-08-02 | |
| Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
| Movie | Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell | Self (archive footage) | 1993-02-06 |
| Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
| Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
| Movie | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage) | 1986-03-09 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | Summer Solstice | Margaret | 1981-12-30 |
| Movie | Just Tell Me What You Want | Stella Liberti | 1980-01-18 |
| Movie | The End | Maureen Lawson | 1978-05-10 |
| Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
| Movie | Ants! | Ethel | 1977-12-02 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Movie | Indict and Convict | Judge Christine Tayloy | 1974-01-06 |
| Movie | The Elevator | Amanda Kenyon | 1974-02-09 |
| Movie | Airport 1975 | Mrs. Devaney | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | The Couple Takes a Wife | Barbara's Mother | 1972-12-05 |
| Series | Columbo | Lizzi Fielding | 1971-09-15 |
| Movie | Death Takes a Holiday | Selena Chapman | 1971-10-23 |
| Movie | Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Evelyn Tryon | 1971-11-09 |
| Movie | The April Fools | Grace Greenlaw | 1969-05-28 |
| Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
| Series | Family Affair | Unknown | 1966-09-12 |
| Movie | The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 |
| Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | 1965-12-31 | |
| Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Nora Charles (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
| Movie | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
| Movie | From the Terrace | Martha Eaton | 1960-07-15 |
| Movie | Midnight Lace | Aunt Bea | 1960-10-13 |
| Movie | Lonelyhearts | Florence Shrike | 1959-03-04 |
| Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Anna Smith | 1959-04-26 |
| Series | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Unknown | 1959-09-21 |
| Movie | The Ambassador's Daughter | Mrs. Cartwright | 1956-07-26 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Belles on Their Toes | Lillian Gilbreth | 1952-05-02 |
| Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
| Movie | Cheaper by the Dozen | Lillian Gilbreth | 1950-03-31 |
| Movie | The Red Pony | Alice Tiflin | 1949-03-08 |
| Movie | That Dangerous Age | Lady Cathy Brooke | 1949-04-13 |
| Movie | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Muriel Blandings | 1948-03-25 |
| Movie | Song of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1947-08-28 |
| Movie | The Senator Was Indiscreet | Mrs. Ashton (uncredited) | 1947-12-31 |
| Movie | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Judge Margaret Turner | 1947-09-01 |
| Movie | So Goes My Love | Jane Budden Maxim | 1946-05-01 |
| Movie | The Best Years of Our Lives | Milly Stephenson | 1946-12-25 |
| Movie | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944-01-01 |
| Movie | The Thin Man Goes Home | Nora Charles | 1944-12-24 |
| Movie | Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 |
| Movie | Love Crazy | Susan Ireland | 1941-05-23 |
| Movie | Shadow of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1941-11-21 |
| Movie | Northward, Ho! | Herself | 1940-02-10 |
| Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
| Movie | Third Finger, Left Hand | Margot Sherwood Merrick | 1940-10-11 |
| Movie | I Love You Again | Kay Wilson | 1940-08-09 |
| Movie | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
| Movie | Lucky Night | Cora Jordan | 1939-05-05 |
| Movie | From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939-05-28 |
| Movie | Another Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1939-11-17 |
| Movie | The Rains Came | Lady Edwina Esketh | 1939-09-15 |
| Movie | Man-Proof | Mimi Swift | 1938-01-07 |
| Movie | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 |
| Movie | Test Pilot | Ann "Thursday" Barton | 1938-04-16 |
| Movie | Too Hot to Handle | Alma Harding | 1938-09-16 |
| Movie | Parnell | Katie O'Shea | 1937-06-04 |
| Movie | Double Wedding | Margit Agnew | 1937-10-15 |
| Movie | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | Petticoat Fever | Irene Campton | 1936-03-20 |
| Movie | Wife vs. Secretary | Linda Stanhope | 1936-02-28 |
| Movie | The Great Ziegfeld | Billie Burke | 1936-04-08 |
| Movie | Libeled Lady | Constance 'Connie' Allenbury | 1936-10-09 |
| Movie | After the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1936-12-25 |
| Movie | To Mary - with Love | Mary Wallace | 1936-08-01 |
| Movie | Wings in the Dark | Sheila Mason | 1935-02-01 |
| Movie | Whipsaw | Vivian Palmer | 1935-12-18 |
| Movie | The Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1934-05-25 |
| Movie | Men in White | Laura Hudson | 1934-04-06 |
| Movie | Manhattan Melodrama | Eleanor Packer | 1934-05-04 |
| Movie | Stamboul Quest | Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen | 1934-07-13 |
| Movie | Broadway Bill | Alice 'Princess' Higgins | 1934-11-30 |
| Movie | Evelyn Prentice | Evelyn Prentice | 1934-11-09 |
| Movie | Scarlet River | Herself (uncredited) | 1933-03-10 |
| Movie | Topaze | Coco | 1933-02-24 |
| Movie | When Ladies Meet | Mary | 1933-06-23 |
| Movie | The Barbarian | Diana 'Di' Standing | 1933-05-12 |
| Movie | Night Flight | Wife of Brazilian Pilot | 1933-10-06 |
| Movie | The Prizefighter and the Lady | Belle Mercer | 1933-11-10 |
| Movie | Penthouse | Gertie Waxted | 1933-09-08 |
| Movie | The Wet Parade | Eileen Pinchon | 1932-03-26 |
| Movie | Vanity Fair | Becky Sharp | 1932-03-15 |
| Movie | Emma | Isabelle | 1932-01-02 |
| Movie | The Woman in Room 13 | Sari Loder | 1932-05-15 |
| Movie | The Mask of Fu Manchu | Fah Lo See | 1932-11-05 |
| Movie | The Animal Kingdom | Cecelia Henry Collier | 1932-12-28 |
| Movie | New Morals for Old | Myra | 1932-06-04 |
| Movie | Thirteen Women | Ursula Georgi | 1932-09-16 |
| Movie | Love Me Tonight | Countess Valentine | 1932-08-18 |
| Movie | Hush Money | Flo Curtis | 1931-07-05 |
| Movie | A Connecticut Yankee | Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion | 1931-04-06 |
| Movie | Transatlantic | Kay Graham | 1931-08-19 |
| Movie | Body and Soul | Alice Lester | 1931-02-22 |
| Movie | Rebound | Evie Lawrence | 1931-08-28 |
| Movie | Arrowsmith | Joyce Lanyon | 1931-12-07 |
| Movie | Consolation Marriage | Elaine Brandon | 1931-11-21 |
| Movie | Skyline | Paula Lambert | 1931-10-08 |
| Movie | Cock o' the Walk | Narita | 1930-04-13 |
| Movie | Bride of the Regiment | Sophie | 1930-05-21 |
| Movie | Under a Texas Moon | Lolita Romero | 1930-04-01 |
| Movie | Cameo Kirby | Lea | 1930-01-12 |
| Movie | The Last of the Duanes | Lola Bland | 1930-08-31 |
| Movie | Isle of Escape | Moira | 1930-03-01 |
| Movie | The Jazz Cinderella | Mildred Vane | 1930-09-01 |
| Movie | The Naughty Flirt | Linda Gregory | 1930-12-17 |
| Movie | The Devil to Pay! | Mary Crayle | 1930-12-18 |
| Movie | The Truth About Youth | Kara | 1930-11-03 |
| Movie | Rogue of the Rio Grande | Carmita | 1930-12-07 |
| Movie | The Bad Man | (uncredited) | 1930-09-11 |
| Movie | Renegades | Eleanore | 1930-10-26 |
| Movie | Hardboiled Rose | Rose Duhamel | 1929-03-30 |
| Movie | The Desert Song | Azuri | 1929-04-08 |
| Movie | Fancy Baggage | Myrna | 1929-01-26 |
| Movie | The Squall | Nubi | 1929-05-09 |
| Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | 1929-11-21 |
| Movie | The Black Watch | Yasmani | 1929-05-22 |
| Movie | Evidence | Native Girl | 1929-12-05 |
| Movie | The Great Divide | Manuella | 1929-09-15 |
| Movie | Turn Back the Hours | Tiza Torreon | 1928-03-01 |
| Movie | A Girl in Every Port | Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited) | 1928-02-26 |
| Movie | Beware of Married Men | Juanita Sheldon | 1928-01-14 |
| Movie | What Price Beauty? | Vamp | 1928-01-22 |
| Movie | The Crimson City | Isobel | 1928-04-07 |
| Movie | Pay as You Enter | Yvonne De Russo | 1928-05-12 |
| Movie | Noah's Ark | Showgirl / Slave Girl | 1928-11-01 |
| Movie | Fashion News | Self (1928, 1930) | 1928-11-06 |
| Movie | The Midnight Taxi | Gertie Fairfax | 1928-09-01 |
| Movie | State Street Sadie | Sadie | 1928-08-25 |
| Movie | Simple Sis | 1927-06-01 | |
| Movie | The Heart of Maryland | Mulatta | 1927-07-13 |
| Movie | Bitter Apples | Belinda White | 1927-04-23 |
| Movie | Finger Prints | Vamp | 1927-01-08 |
| Movie | The Climbers | Countess Veya | 1927-05-03 |
| Movie | When a Man Loves | Convict Behind Manon (uncredited) | 1927-08-21 |
| Movie | A Sailor's Sweetheart | Claudette Ralston | 1927-09-24 |
| Movie | Ham and Eggs at the Front | Fifi | 1927-11-29 |
| Movie | If I Were Single | Joan Whitley | 1927-12-17 |
| Movie | The Girl from Chicago | Mary Carlton | 1927-11-09 |
| Movie | The Jazz Singer | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 1927-10-06 |
| Movie | The Gilded Highway | Inez Quartz | 1926-03-13 |
| Movie | Why Girls Go Back Home | Sally Short | 1926-03-01 |
| Movie | The Cave Man | Maid | 1926-02-06 |
| Movie | The Love Toy | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1926-02-13 |
| Movie | The Exquisite Sinner | Living Statue | 1926-03-28 |
| Movie | So This Is Paris | Lalle's Maid (uncredited) | 1926-07-31 |
| Movie | The Third Degree | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1926-12-01 |
| Movie | Across the Pacific | Roma | 1926-10-02 |
| Movie | Don Juan | Mai - Lady in Waiting | 1926-08-06 |
| Movie | 1925 Studio Tour | Self (uncredited) | 1925-04-09 |
| Movie | The Wanderer | Girl at Baccanal (uncredited) | 1925-08-19 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Slave Girl (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
| Movie | Sporting Life | Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited) | 1925-11-29 |
| Movie | Pretty Ladies | Showgirl (uncredited) | 1925-09-06 |