
Myrna Loy
Born: 1905-08-02
Place of Birth: Radersburg, Montana, USA
Biography
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.
Known For

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

To Mary - with Love

Turn Back the Hours

From the Terrace

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Song of the Thin Man

Under a Texas Moon

The Cave Man

The Third Degree

The Desert Song

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Fancy Baggage

The Elevator

Manhattan Melodrama

Hush Money

The Jazz Cinderella

Cheaper by the Dozen

Vanity Fair

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Petticoat Fever

It Happened at Lakewood Manor

The Gilded Highway

Night Flight

Midnight Lace

Evelyn Prentice

Lonelyhearts

Parnell

Man-Proof

Skyline

The Barbarian

The Great Divide

Arrowsmith

Pretty Ladies

Libeled Lady

Renegades

Thirteen Women

The Best Years of Our Lives

What Price Beauty?

The Naughty Flirt

Evidence

Test Pilot

The Squall

Rebound

Penthouse

Airport 1975

Stamboul Quest

Topaze

The Great Ziegfeld

Transatlantic

The Climbers

Lucky Night

Whipsaw

The Thin Man

The Jazz Singer

Bitter Apples

The Girl from Chicago

I Love You Again

Love Me Tonight

Twenty Years After

Rogue of the Rio Grande

Isle of Escape

Finger Prints

The Exquisite Sinner

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The Animal Kingdom

A Connecticut Yankee

So This Is Paris

After the Thin Man

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Another Thin Man

That's Entertainment! III

1925 Studio Tour

The Rains Came

From the Ends of the Earth

Indict and Convict

Shadow of the Thin Man

Beware of Married Men

The Thin Man Goes Home

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Wife vs. Secretary

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

The April Fools

Simple Sis

Noah's Ark

Cock o' the Walk

Night of 100 Stars

Body and Soul

The End

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Don Juan

So Goes My Love

The Crimson City

The Romance of Celluloid

The Love Toy

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Show of Shows

The Ambassador's Daughter

Men in White

The Prizefighter and the Lady

State Street Sadie

The Wet Parade

Another Romance of Celluloid

Double Wedding

The Love Goddesses

Too Hot to Handle

Love Crazy

Why Girls Go Back Home

Meet Me in St. Louis

The Red Pony

The Wanderer

Emma

The Big Parade of Comedy

Broadway Bill

Scarlet River

Wings in the Dark

Death Takes a Holiday

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Bride of the Regiment

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

A Girl in Every Port

Just Tell Me What You Want

Complicated Women

New Morals for Old

The Bad Man

The Black Watch

The Heart of Maryland

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Woman in Room 13

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Ham and Eggs at the Front

Cameo Kirby

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

When Ladies Meet

Belles on Their Toes

Show-Business at War

The Devil to Pay!

Trifles of Importance

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

When a Man Loves

Across the Pacific

Summer Solstice

The Last of the Duanes

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Pay as You Enter

The Truth About Youth

The Senator Was Indiscreet

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

If I Were Single

The Midnight Taxi

William Powell: A True Gentleman

That Dangerous Age

Hardboiled Rose

Third Finger, Left Hand

Northward, Ho!

Consolation Marriage

The Couple Takes a Wife
