Myrna Loy

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

121

Movies

158

Born: August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993
From: 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.

Works

158 films

Airport 1975

19745.8

The Best Years of Our Lives

19467.7

Love Me Tonight

19326.6

Cheaper by the Dozen

19506.4

The Thin Man

19347.5

The Jazz Singer

19276.1

Libeled Lady

19367.3

The April Fools

19695.9

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

After the Thin Man

19367.3

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

19487.0

Midnight Lace

19606.6

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

Vanity Fair

19324.7

Another Thin Man

19397.1

Wife vs. Secretary

19366.7

The Great Ziegfeld

19366.3

From the Terrace

19606.6

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

19476.9

Shadow of the Thin Man

19417.0

Evelyn Prentice

19346.5

The End

19785.6

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Complicated Women

20036.9

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Summer Solstice

19815.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Noah's Ark

19286.4

It Happened at Lakewood Manor

19774.6

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

Too Hot to Handle

19386.0

Manhattan Melodrama

19347.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Simple Sis

19279.0

The Mask of Fu Manchu

19325.4

The Rains Came

19396.1

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

19716.1

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Broadway Bill

19346.0

Evidence

19298.0

I Love You Again

19407.2

Test Pilot

19386.1

Parnell

19374.6

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

The Thin Man Goes Home

19447.1

Love Crazy

19416.8

The Wet Parade

19326.2

Twenty Years After

19448.0

Penthouse

19336.9

The Animal Kingdom

19325.6

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

To Mary - with Love

19365.7

Third Finger, Left Hand

19407.0

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

Song of the Thin Man

19476.7

Night Flight

19335.8

The Red Pony

19496.0

Bitter Apples

19277.5

Belles on Their Toes

19527.2

Double Wedding

19376.4

Skyline

19318.0

The Elevator

19746.5

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

19908.5

The Girl from Chicago

19277.0

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

19868.3

Just Tell Me What You Want

19804.5

A Connecticut Yankee

19316.1

A Girl in Every Port

19286.0

When Ladies Meet

19335.7

Thirteen Women

19326.4

The Naughty Flirt

19316.2

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

20086.1

Don Juan

19266.6

So This Is Paris

19266.3

The Devil to Pay!

19305.8

Whipsaw

19356.4

The Prizefighter and the Lady

19335.5

Finger Prints

19277.0

Isle of Escape

19306.5

A Sailor's Sweetheart

19278.0

Emma

19326.6

Indict and Convict

19745.0

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Death Takes a Holiday

19714.9

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

Body and Soul

19315.4

Lonelyhearts

19596.3

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

The Black Watch

19295.9

Men in White

19346.3

Stamboul Quest

19345.2

Hush Money

193110.0

Pretty Ladies

19255.8

New Morals for Old

19324.5

The Senator Was Indiscreet

19476.2

Arrowsmith

19316.6

The Desert Song

19296.2

1925 Studio Tour

19256.3

The Ambassador's Daughter

19564.9

The Barbarian

19335.1

Consolation Marriage

19316.4

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

20159.0

William Powell: A True Gentleman

20057.5

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Transatlantic

19315.8

The Couple Takes a Wife

197210.0

If I Were Single

19279.0

The Last of the Duanes

19306.0

Lucky Night

19396.8

Meet Me in St. Louis

19596.0

Scarlet River

19335.6

Sporting Life

19257.0

Renegades

19305.0

Beware of Married Men

19283.7

The Love Toy

192610.0

Another Romance of Celluloid

19385.3

The Bad Man

19309.0

Under a Texas Moon

19304.5

The Midnight Taxi

19286.5

When a Man Loves

19276.0

The Woman in Room 13

19328.0

Rogue of the Rio Grande

19308.0

Topaze

19336.0

Across the Pacific

19265.0

The Truth About Youth

19306.2

Wings in the Dark

19356.4

So Goes My Love

19467.3

Northward, Ho!

19406.7

Ham and Eggs at the Front

19277.0

Man-Proof

19385.2

Cock o' the Walk

19303.9

The Climbers

19279.0

Trifles of Importance

19407.5

That Dangerous Age

19497.3

Turn Back the Hours

192810.0

The Wanderer

19253.0

The Squall

19294.0

The Exquisite Sinner

19268.0

The Heart of Maryland

19277.0

State Street Sadie

19288.0

Fancy Baggage

192910.0

Cameo Kirby

19308.0

What Price Beauty?

192810.0

Pay as You Enter

19288.0

Rebound

19314.7

Bride of the Regiment

19306.5

The Crimson City

19289.0

Hardboiled Rose

19298.0

Petticoat Fever

19366.1

The Third Degree

19267.0

The Jazz Cinderella

19308.0

Why Girls Go Back Home

19267.0

The Gilded Highway

192610.0

The Cave Man

19268.0

The Great Divide

19295.3