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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Biography

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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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

159

Gender

Female

Birthday

1905-08-02

Place of Birth

Radersburg, Montana, USA

Also Known As

Мирна Лой, میرنا لوی

Known For

The Best Years of Our Lives The Mask of Fu Manchu The Thin Man Double Wedding I Love You Again Love Crazy Love Me Tonight The Red Pony Libeled Lady Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Too Hot to Handle Midnight Lace Cheaper by the Dozen The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Airport 1975 Penthouse Manhattan Melodrama The End After the Thin Man Another Thin Man Shadow of the Thin Man The Thin Man Goes Home Song of the Thin Man From the Terrace The Great Ziegfeld Test Pilot Whipsaw Stamboul Quest Wife vs. Secretary Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Third Finger, Left Hand Trifles of Importance Belles on Their Toes Wings in the Dark Evelyn Prentice The April Fools Arrowsmith Thirteen Women The Legend of Rudolph Valentino Night Flight Broadway Bill The Jazz Singer The Prizefighter and the Lady So Goes My Love Transatlantic Lonelyhearts The Ambassador's Daughter Don Juan The Devil to Pay! The Animal Kingdom Emma Men in White Hollywood: The Dream Factory The Great Divide A Connecticut Yankee Petticoat Fever The Rains Came The Naughty Flirt The Wet Parade Vanity Fair Consolation Marriage Topaze Just Tell Me What You Want Pretty Ladies The Squall The Black Watch The Truth About Youth Renegades Lucky Night When Ladies Meet Rogue of the Rio Grande Man-Proof Death Takes a Holiday The Elevator The Couple Takes a Wife New Morals for Old Parnell The Barbarian The Desert Song The Show of Shows Bride of the Regiment Cock o' the Walk Under a Texas Moon It Happened at Lakewood Manor Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate Body and Soul So This Is Paris To Mary - with Love The Last of the Duanes Why Girls Go Back Home Rebound Northward, Ho! That Dangerous Age The Bad Man The Big Parade of Comedy The Woman in Room 13 1925 Studio Tour Scarlet River When a Man Loves Noah's Ark Summer Solstice That's Entertainment! III State Street Sadie The Midnight Taxi Hardboiled Rose Fancy Baggage The Exquisite Sinner From the Ends of the Earth Meet Me in St. Louis What Price Beauty? Indict and Convict The Senator Was Indiscreet Skyline Cameo Kirby The Jazz Cinderella Isle of Escape Evidence Show-Business at War Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Hollywood: Style Center of the World Complicated Women That's Entertainment, Part II The Romance of Celluloid A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound Twenty Years After The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To William Powell: A True Gentleman The Wanderer Sporting Life Hush Money A Girl in Every Port The Girl from Chicago Bitter Apples Across the Pacific The Cave Man Another Romance of Celluloid The Love Toy The Gilded Highway The Third Degree Pay as You Enter The Crimson City Turn Back the Hours Beware of Married Men Finger Prints Ham and Eggs at the Front If I Were Single The Climbers A Sailor's Sweetheart The Heart of Maryland Simple Sis Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema James Stewart: A Wonderful Life 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year Night of 100 Stars Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies Alias Nick and Nora
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