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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Radersburg, Montana, USA, 1905-08-02

Died: 1993-12-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1925	1925 Studio Tour	Self (uncredited)	61
2	1925	The Wanderer	Girl at Baccanal (uncredited)	10
3	1925	Pretty Ladies	Showgirl (uncredited)	47
4	1925	Sporting Life	Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)	0
5	1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Slave Girl (uncredited)	73
6	1926	The Cave Man	Maid	0
7	1926	The Love Toy	Bit Part (uncredited)	0
8	1926	Why Girls Go Back Home	Sally Short	0
9	1926	The Gilded Highway	Inez Quartz	0
10	1926	The Exquisite Sinner	Living Statue	0
11	1926	So This Is Paris	Lalle's Maid (uncredited)	63
12	1926	Don Juan	Mai - Lady in Waiting	65
13	1926	Across the Pacific	Roma	45
14	1926	The Third Degree	Bit Part (uncredited)	0
15	1927	Finger Prints	Vamp	0
16	1927	Bitter Apples	Belinda White	0
17	1927	The Climbers	Countess Veya	0
18	1927	Simple Sis		0
19	1927	The Heart of Maryland	Mulatta	0
20	1927	When a Man Loves	Convict Behind Manon (uncredited)	64
21	1927	A Sailor's Sweetheart	Claudette Ralston	70
22	1927	The Jazz Singer	Chorus Girl (uncredited)	61
23	1927	The Girl from Chicago	Mary Carlton	0
24	1927	Ham and Eggs at the Front	Fifi	0
25	1927	If I Were Single	Joan Whitley	0
26	1928	Beware of Married Men	Juanita Sheldon	10
27	1928	What Price Beauty?	Vamp	0
28	1928	A Girl in Every Port	Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited)	64
29	1928	Turn Back the Hours	Tiza Torreon	0
30	1928	The Crimson City	Isobel	0
31	1928	Pay as You Enter	Yvonne De Russo	0
32	1928	State Street Sadie	Sadie	0
33	1928	The Midnight Taxi	Gertie Fairfax	50
34	1928	Noah's Ark	Showgirl / Slave Girl	63
35	1929	Fancy Baggage	Myrna	0
36	1929	Hardboiled Rose	Rose Duhamel	0
37	1929	The Desert Song	Azuri	45
38	1929	The Squall	Nubi	34
39	1929	The Black Watch	Yasmani	60
40	1929	The Great Divide	Manuella	48
41	1929	The Show of Shows	Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers	55
42	1929	Evidence	Native Girl	0
43	1930	Cameo Kirby	Lea	0
44	1930	Isle of Escape	Moira	60
45	1930	Under a Texas Moon	Lolita Romero	10
46	1930	Cock o' the Walk	Narita	32
47	1930	Bride of the Regiment	Sophie	60
48	1930	The Last of the Duanes	Lola Bland	30
49	1930	The Jazz Cinderella	Mildred Vane	0
50	1930	The Bad Man	(uncredited)	0
51	1930	Renegades	Eleanore	45
52	1930	The Truth About Youth	Kara	57
53	1930	Rogue of the Rio Grande	Carmita	0
54	1930	The Devil to Pay!	Mary Crayle	59
55	1931	The Naughty Flirt	Linda Gregory	57
56	1931	Body and Soul	Alice Lester	45
57	1931	A Connecticut Yankee	Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion	60
58	1931	Hush Money	Flo Curtis	0
59	1931	Transatlantic	Kay Graham	55
60	1931	Rebound	Evie Lawrence	43
61	1931	Skyline	Paula Lambert	0
62	1931	Consolation Marriage	Elaine Brandon	61
63	1931	Arrowsmith	Joyce Lanyon	64
64	1932	Emma	Isabelle	64
65	1932	Vanity Fair	Becky Sharp	40
66	1932	The Wet Parade	Eileen Pinchon	58
67	1932	The Woman in Room 13	Sari Loder	0
68	1932	New Morals for Old	Myra	42
69	1932	Love Me Tonight	Countess Valentine	66
70	1932	Thirteen Women	Ursula Georgi	63
71	1932	The Mask of Fu Manchu	Fah Lo See	55
72	1932	The Animal Kingdom	Cecelia Henry Collier	56
73	1933	Topaze	Coco	61
74	1933	Scarlet River	Herself (uncredited)	45
75	1933	The Barbarian	Diana 'Di' Standing	49
76	1933	When Ladies Meet	Mary	56
77	1933	Penthouse	Gertie Waxted	67
78	1933	Night Flight	Wife of Brazilian Pilot	58
79	1933	The Prizefighter and the Lady	Belle Mercer	57
80	1934	Men in White	Laura Hudson	60
81	1934	Manhattan Melodrama	Eleanor Packer	70
82	1934	The Thin Man	Nora Charles	75
83	1934	Stamboul Quest	Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen	54
84	1934	Evelyn Prentice	Evelyn Prentice	67
85	1934	Broadway Bill	Alice 'Princess' Higgins	60
86	1935	Wings in the Dark	Sheila Mason	64
87	1935	Whipsaw	Vivian Palmer	62
88	1936	Wife vs. Secretary	Linda Stanhope	68
89	1936	Petticoat Fever	Irene Campton	55
90	1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Billie Burke	63
91	1936	To Mary - with Love	Mary Wallace	45
92	1936	Libeled Lady	Constance 'Connie' Allenbury	73
93	1936	After the Thin Man	Nora Charles	73
94	1937	Parnell	Katie O'Shea	46
95	1937	The Romance of Celluloid	Self (archive footage)	70
96	1937	Double Wedding	Margit Agnew	66
97	1938	Man-Proof	Mimi Swift	48
98	1938	Another Romance of Celluloid	Self (uncredited)	50
99	1938	Test Pilot	Ann "Thursday" Barton	65
100	1938	Too Hot to Handle	Alma Harding	58
101	1939	Lucky Night	Cora Jordan	66
102	1939	From the Ends of the Earth	Self	0
103	1939	The Rains Came	Lady Edwina Esketh	59
104	1939	Another Thin Man	Nora Charles	71
105	1940	Northward, Ho!	Herself	50
106	1940	Hollywood: Style Center of the World	Self	55
107	1940	Trifles of Importance	Self (archive footage)	60
108	1940	I Love You Again	Kay Wilson	72
109	1940	Third Finger, Left Hand	Margot Sherwood Merrick	68
110	1940	A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound	Self	67
111	1941	Love Crazy	Susan Ireland	71
112	1941	Shadow of the Thin Man	Nora Charles	70
113	1943	Show-Business at War	Self	70
114	1944	Twenty Years After	(archive footage)	60
115	1944	The Thin Man Goes Home	Nora Charles	71
116	1946	So Goes My Love	Jane Budden Maxim	70
117	1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	Milly Stephenson	78
118	1947	Song of the Thin Man	Nora Charles	68
119	1947	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer	Judge Margaret Turner	69
120	1947	The Senator Was Indiscreet	Mrs. Ashton (uncredited)	54
121	1948	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	Muriel Blandings	70
122	1949	The Red Pony	Alice Tiflin	57
123	1949	That Dangerous Age	Lady Cathy Brooke	65
124	1950	Cheaper by the Dozen	Lillian Gilbreth	63
125	1952	Belles on Their Toes	Lillian Gilbreth	68
126	1956	The Ambassador's Daughter	Mrs. Cartwright	43
127	1959	Lonelyhearts	Florence Shrike	61
128	1959	Meet Me in St. Louis	Anna Smith	50
129	1960	From the Terrace	Martha Eaton	66
130	1960	Midnight Lace	Aunt Bea	65
131	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0
132	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Nora Charles (archive footage)	63
133	1969	The April Fools	Grace Greenlaw	60
134	1971	Death Takes a Holiday	Selena Chapman	52
135	1971	Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate	Evelyn Tryon	59
136	1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory	Self (archive footage)	60
137	1972	The Couple Takes a Wife	Barbara's Mother	0
138	1974	Indict and Convict	Judge Christine Tayloy	0
139	1974	The Elevator	Amanda Kenyon	60
140	1974	Airport 1975	Mrs. Devaney	57
141	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
142	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
143	1977	It Happened at Lakewood Manor	Ethel	45
144	1978	The End	Maureen Lawson	55
145	1980	Just Tell Me What You Want	Stella Liberti	45
146	1981	Summer Solstice	Margaret	55
147	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
148	1986	The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Self (archive footage)	80
149	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
150	1990	Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To	(archive footage)	90
151	1993	Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell	Self (archive footage)	85
152	1994	That's Entertainment! III	(archive footage)	70
153	2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	67
154	2005	William Powell: A True Gentleman		75
155	2007	Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	Self (archive footage)	49
156	2008	Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	Gertie Waxted (archive footage)	64
157	2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self (archive footage)	75

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Nancy Knox	73
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Kate Kennedy	63
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Maggie Webster	63
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Allie Evans	63
6	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
7	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Mary Sidney	63
8	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
9	1962	The Virginian	Mrs. Miles	65
10	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
11	1966	Family Affair		66
12	1967	Ironside	Andrea Wollcott	68
13	1971	Columbo	Lizzi Fielding	81
14	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
15	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
16	1988	American Experience	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	74

Myrna Loy

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