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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PHOTOS
TV Series
Family Affair
6.6
Columbo
8.097
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
General Electric Theater
6.25
Ironside
6.8
The Virginian
6.344
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
General Electric Theater
6.25
General Electric Theater
6.25
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
What's My Line?
6.9
American Experience
7.4
The George Gobel Show
7.333
Movies
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.791
The Mask of Fu Manchu
5.5
The Thin Man
7.495
I Love You Again
7.2
Double Wedding
6.576
Love Crazy
7.1
Love Me Tonight
6.572
The Red Pony
5.7
Libeled Lady
7.31
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
6.976
Too Hot to Handle
5.8
Midnight Lace
6.5
Cheaper by the Dozen
6.3
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
6.9
Airport 1975
5.713
Manhattan Melodrama
7.014
Penthouse
6.7
The End
5.539
After the Thin Man
7.347
Another Thin Man
7.1
Shadow of the Thin Man
7
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.1
Song of the Thin Man
6.8
From the Terrace
6.6
The Great Ziegfeld
6.269
Test Pilot
6.5
Whipsaw
6.2
Stamboul Quest
5.4
Wife vs. Secretary
6.853
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.33
Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8
Trifles of Importance
6
Belles on Their Toes
6.8
Wings in the Dark
6.4
Evelyn Prentice
6.661
The April Fools
6.015
Arrowsmith
6.444
Thirteen Women
6.3
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
0
Night Flight
5.8
Broadway Bill
5.976
The Jazz Singer
6.096
The Prizefighter and the Lady
5.667
So Goes My Love
7
Transatlantic
5.5
Lonelyhearts
6.1
The Ambassador's Daughter
4.3
Don Juan
6.5
The Devil to Pay!
5.925
The Animal Kingdom
5.6
Emma
6.4
Men in White
6
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6
The Great Divide
4.8
A Connecticut Yankee
6
Petticoat Fever
5.5
The Rains Came
5.881
The Naughty Flirt
5.7
The Wet Parade
5.8
Vanity Fair
4
Consolation Marriage
6.1
Topaze
6.136
Just Tell Me What You Want
4.5
Pretty Ladies
4.7
The Squall
3.4
The Black Watch
6
The Truth About Youth
5.7
Renegades
4.5
Lucky Night
6.6
When Ladies Meet
5.633
Rogue of the Rio Grande
0
Man-Proof
4.8
Death Takes a Holiday
5.2
The Elevator
6
The Couple Takes a Wife
0
New Morals for Old
4.2
Parnell
4.6
The Barbarian
4.9
The Desert Song
4.5
The Show of Shows
5.5
Cock o' the Walk
3.2
Bride of the Regiment
6
Under a Texas Moon
1
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
4.5
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
5.9
Body and Soul
4.5
So This Is Paris
6.333
To Mary - with Love
4.5
The Last of the Duanes
3
Why Girls Go Back Home
0
Rebound
4.3
Northward, Ho!
5
That Dangerous Age
6.5
The Bad Man
0
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3
The Woman in Room 13
0
1925 Studio Tour
6.125
Scarlet River
4.5
When a Man Loves
6.4
Noah's Ark
6.3
Summer Solstice
5.5
That's Entertainment! III
7
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
8.5
The Midnight Taxi
5
State Street Sadie
0
Hardboiled Rose
0
Fancy Baggage
0
The Exquisite Sinner
0
From the Ends of the Earth
0
Meet Me in St. Louis
5
Isle of Escape
6
What Price Beauty?
0
Evidence
0
Indict and Convict
0
Cameo Kirby
0
The Senator Was Indiscreet
5.4
The Jazz Cinderella
0
Skyline
0
Show-Business at War
7
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7
Complicated Women
6.7
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.855
The Romance of Celluloid
7
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
8
William Powell: A True Gentleman
7.5
Twenty Years After
6
A Girl in Every Port
6.381
Hush Money
0
The Wanderer
1
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
9
Sporting Life
0
The Girl from Chicago
0
Bitter Apples
0
Across the Pacific
4.5
The Cave Man
0
The Love Toy
0
Another Romance of Celluloid
5
The Gilded Highway
0
The Third Degree
0
Pay as You Enter
0
Beware of Married Men
1
Turn Back the Hours
0
The Crimson City
0
Ham and Eggs at the Front
0
The Climbers
0
If I Were Single
0
A Sailor's Sweetheart
7
Simple Sis
0
Finger Prints
0
The Heart of Maryland
0
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.4
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.9
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5
Night of 100 Stars
6.667