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Myrna Loy
Actor

Myrna Loy

2 Movies
2 Credits
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 2
Birthday August 2, 1905 (120 years old)
Place of Birth Radersburg, Montana, USA
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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.

Filmography (170)

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year 2009
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood 2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema 2007
William Powell: A True Gentleman 2005
Complicated Women 2003
That's Entertainment! III 1994
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To 1990
American Experience 1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life 1987
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn 1986
Night of 100 Stars 1982
Summer Solstice 1981
Just Tell Me What You Want 1980
The End 1978
The Kennedy Center Honors 1978
It Happened at Lakewood Manor 1977
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1975
Airport 1975 1974
The Elevator 1974
Indict and Convict 1974
The American Film Institute Salute to ... 1973
Hollywood: The Dream Factory 1972
The Couple Takes a Wife 1972
Death Takes a Holiday 1971
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate 1971
Columbo 1971
The April Fools 1969
Ironside 1967
Family Affair 1966
The Big Parade of Comedy 1964
The Merv Griffin Show 1962
The Virginian 1962
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino 1961
The Mike Douglas Show 1961
Midnight Lace 1960
From the Terrace 1960
Lonelyhearts 1959
Meet Me in St. Louis 1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson 1959
The Ambassador's Daughter 1956
The George Gobel Show 1954
General Electric Theater 1953
Belles on Their Toes 1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars 1951
Cheaper by the Dozen 1950
What's My Line? 1950
The Red Pony 1949
That Dangerous Age 1949
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947
Song of the Thin Man 1947
The Senator Was Indiscreet 1947
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
So Goes My Love 1946
The Thin Man Goes Home 1944
Twenty Years After 1944
Show-Business at War 1943
Love Crazy 1941
Shadow of the Thin Man 1941
I Love You Again 1940
Third Finger, Left Hand 1940
Trifles of Importance 1940
Northward, Ho! 1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World 1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound 1940
Another Thin Man 1939
The Rains Came 1939
Lucky Night 1939
From the Ends of the Earth 1939
Too Hot to Handle 1938
Test Pilot 1938
Man-Proof 1938
Another Romance of Celluloid 1938
Double Wedding 1937
Parnell 1937
The Romance of Celluloid 1937
Libeled Lady 1936
After the Thin Man 1936
The Great Ziegfeld 1936
Wife vs. Secretary 1936
Petticoat Fever 1936
To Mary - with Love 1936
Whipsaw 1935
Wings in the Dark 1935
The Thin Man 1934
Manhattan Melodrama 1934
Stamboul Quest 1934
Evelyn Prentice 1934
Broadway Bill 1934
Men in White 1934
Penthouse 1933
Night Flight 1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady 1933
Topaze 1933
When Ladies Meet 1933
The Barbarian 1933
Scarlet River 1933
The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932
Love Me Tonight 1932
Thirteen Women 1932
The Animal Kingdom 1932
Emma 1932
The Wet Parade 1932
Vanity Fair 1932
New Morals for Old 1932
The Woman in Room 13 1932
Arrowsmith 1931
Transatlantic 1931
A Connecticut Yankee 1931
The Naughty Flirt 1931
Consolation Marriage 1931
Body and Soul 1931
Rebound 1931
Skyline 1931
Hush Money 1931
The Devil to Pay! 1930
The Truth About Youth 1930
Renegades 1930
Rogue of the Rio Grande 1930
Bride of the Regiment 1930
Cock o' the Walk 1930
Under a Texas Moon 1930
The Last of the Duanes 1930
The Bad Man 1930
The Jazz Cinderella 1930
Cameo Kirby 1930
Isle of Escape 1930
The Great Divide 1929
The Squall 1929
The Black Watch 1929
The Desert Song 1929
The Show of Shows 1929
Hardboiled Rose 1929
Fancy Baggage 1929
Evidence 1929
Noah's Ark 1928
State Street Sadie 1928
The Midnight Taxi 1928
What Price Beauty? 1928
A Girl in Every Port 1928
The Crimson City 1928
Turn Back the Hours 1928
Pay as You Enter 1928
Beware of Married Men 1928
The Jazz Singer 1927
When a Man Loves 1927
The Girl from Chicago 1927
Bitter Apples 1927
Finger Prints 1927
Ham and Eggs at the Front 1927
If I Were Single 1927
The Climbers 1927
A Sailor's Sweetheart 1927
Simple Sis 1927
The Heart of Maryland 1927
Don Juan 1926
So This Is Paris 1926
Why Girls Go Back Home 1926
The Exquisite Sinner 1926
Across the Pacific 1926
The Cave Man 1926
The Third Degree 1926
The Gilded Highway 1926
The Love Toy 1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925
Pretty Ladies 1925
1925 Studio Tour 1925
The Wanderer 1925
Sporting Life 1925
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