Myrna Loy
Acting • Born 1905-08-02 – Died 1993-12-14
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.
Filmography
172 credits
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Milly Stephenson
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Movie • 1932
Fah Lo See
The Thin Man
Movie • 1934
Nora Charles
Double Wedding
Movie • 1937
Margit Agnew
I Love You Again
Movie • 1940
Kay Wilson
Love Crazy
Movie • 1941
Susan Ireland
Love Me Tonight
Movie • 1932
Countess Valentine
The Red Pony
Movie • 1949
Alice Tiflin
Libeled Lady
Movie • 1936
Constance 'Connie' Allenbury
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Movie • 1948
Muriel Blandings
Too Hot to Handle
Movie • 1938
Alma Harding
Midnight Lace
Movie • 1960
Aunt Bea
Cheaper by the Dozen
Movie • 1950
Lillian Gilbreth
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Movie • 1947
Judge Margaret Turner
Airport 1975
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Devaney
Penthouse
Movie • 1933
Gertie Waxted
Manhattan Melodrama
Movie • 1934
Eleanor Packer
The End
Movie • 1978
Maureen Lawson
Shadow of the Thin Man
Movie • 1941
Nora Charles
Another Thin Man
Movie • 1939
Nora Charles
After the Thin Man
Movie • 1936
Nora Charles
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie • 1944
Nora Charles
Song of the Thin Man
Movie • 1947
Nora Charles
From the Terrace
Movie • 1960
Martha Eaton
The Great Ziegfeld
Movie • 1936
Billie Burke
Test Pilot
Movie • 1938
Ann "Thursday" Barton
Whipsaw
Movie • 1935
Vivian Palmer
Stamboul Quest
Movie • 1934
Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen
Wife vs. Secretary
Movie • 1936
Linda Stanhope
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie • 1925
Slave Girl (uncredited)
Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie • 1940
Margot Sherwood Merrick
Trifles of Importance
Movie • 1940
Self (archive footage)
Belles on Their Toes
Movie • 1952
Lillian Gilbreth
Wings in the Dark
Movie • 1935
Sheila Mason
Evelyn Prentice
Movie • 1934
Evelyn Prentice
The April Fools
Movie • 1969
Grace Greenlaw
Arrowsmith
Movie • 1931
Joyce Lanyon
Thirteen Women
Movie • 1932
Ursula Georgi
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Movie • 1961
Self (archive footage)
Night Flight
Movie • 1933
Wife of Brazilian Pilot
Broadway Bill
Movie • 1934
Alice 'Princess' Higgins
The Jazz Singer
Movie • 1927
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Movie • 1933
Belle Mercer
So Goes My Love
Movie • 1946
Jane Budden Maxim
Transatlantic
Movie • 1931
Kay Graham
Lonelyhearts
Movie • 1959
Florence Shrike
The Ambassador's Daughter
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Cartwright
Don Juan
Movie • 1926
Mai - Lady in Waiting
The Devil to Pay!
Movie • 1930
Mary Crayle
The Animal Kingdom
Movie • 1932
Cecelia Henry Collier
Emma
Movie • 1932
Isabelle
Men in White
Movie • 1934
Laura Hudson
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
The Great Divide
Movie • 1929
Manuella
A Connecticut Yankee
Movie • 1931
Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion
Petticoat Fever
Movie • 1936
Irene Campton
The Rains Came
Movie • 1939
Lady Edwina Esketh
The Naughty Flirt
Movie • 1931
Linda Gregory
The Wet Parade
Movie • 1932
Eileen Pinchon
Vanity Fair
Movie • 1932
Becky Sharp
Consolation Marriage
Movie • 1931
Elaine Brandon
Topaze
Movie • 1933
Coco
Just Tell Me What You Want
Movie • 1980
Stella Liberti
Pretty Ladies
Movie • 1925
Showgirl (uncredited)
The Squall
Movie • 1929
Nubi
The Black Watch
Movie • 1929
Yasmani
The Truth About Youth
Movie • 1930
Kara
Lucky Night
Movie • 1939
Cora Jordan
Renegades
Movie • 1930
Eleanore
When Ladies Meet
Movie • 1933
Mary
Rogue of the Rio Grande
Movie • 1930
Carmita
Man-Proof
Movie • 1938
Mimi Swift
Death Takes a Holiday
Movie • 1971
Selena Chapman
The Elevator
Movie • 1974
Amanda Kenyon
The Couple Takes a Wife
Movie • 1972
Barbara's Mother
New Morals for Old
Movie • 1932
Myra
Parnell
Movie • 1937
Katie O'Shea
The Barbarian
Movie • 1933
Diana 'Di' Standing
The Desert Song
Movie • 1929
Azuri
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
Bride of the Regiment
Movie • 1930
Sophie
Cock o' the Walk
Movie • 1930
Narita
Under a Texas Moon
Movie • 1930
Lolita Romero
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
Movie • 1977
Ethel
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Movie • 1971
Evelyn Tryon
Body and Soul
Movie • 1931
Alice Lester
So This Is Paris
Movie • 1926
Lalle's Maid (uncredited)
To Mary - with Love
Movie • 1936
Mary Wallace
The Last of the Duanes
Movie • 1930
Lola Bland
Why Girls Go Back Home
Movie • 1926
Sally Short
Rebound
Movie • 1931
Evie Lawrence
Northward, Ho!
Movie • 1940
Herself
That Dangerous Age
Movie • 1949
Lady Cathy Brooke
The Bad Man
Movie • 1930
(uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Nora Charles (archive footage)
The Woman in Room 13
Movie • 1932
Sari Loder
1925 Studio Tour
Movie • 1925
Self (uncredited)
Scarlet River
Movie • 1933
Herself (uncredited)
When a Man Loves
Movie • 1927
Convict Behind Manon (uncredited)
Noah's Ark
Movie • 1928
Showgirl / Slave Girl
Summer Solstice
Movie • 1981
Margaret
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
State Street Sadie
Movie • 1928
Sadie
The Midnight Taxi
Movie • 1928
Gertie Fairfax
Hardboiled Rose
Movie • 1929
Rose Duhamel
Fancy Baggage
Movie • 1929
Myrna
The Exquisite Sinner
Movie • 1926
Living Statue
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
Meet Me in St. Louis
Movie • 1959
Anna Smith
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Ashton (uncredited)
The Jazz Cinderella
Movie • 1930
Mildred Vane
What Price Beauty?
Movie • 1928
Vamp
Skyline
Movie • 1931
Paula Lambert
Cameo Kirby
Movie • 1930
Lea
Evidence
Movie • 1929
Native Girl
Isle of Escape
Movie • 1930
Moira
Indict and Convict
Movie • 1974
Judge Christine Tayloy
Show-Business at War
Movie • 1943
Self
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Movie • 1940
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
The Wanderer
Movie • 1925
Girl at Baccanal (uncredited)
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1937
Self (archive footage)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie • 1940
Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
William Powell: A True Gentleman
Movie • 2005
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Movie • 1990
(archive footage)
Sporting Life
Movie • 1925
Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)
Hush Money
Movie • 1931
Flo Curtis
A Girl in Every Port
Movie • 1928
Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited)
The Girl from Chicago
Movie • 1927
Mary Carlton
Bitter Apples
Movie • 1927
Belinda White
Across the Pacific
Movie • 1926
Roma
The Cave Man
Movie • 1926
Maid
The Third Degree
Movie • 1926
Bit Part (uncredited)
Another Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1938
Self (uncredited)
The Gilded Highway
Movie • 1926
Inez Quartz
The Love Toy
Movie • 1926
Bit Part (uncredited)
Finger Prints
Movie • 1927
Vamp
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Movie • 1927
Fifi
The Crimson City
Movie • 1928
Isobel
Turn Back the Hours
Movie • 1928
Tiza Torreon
If I Were Single
Movie • 1927
Joan Whitley
The Climbers
Movie • 1927
Countess Veya
Pay as You Enter
Movie • 1928
Yvonne De Russo
Beware of Married Men
Movie • 1928
Juanita Sheldon
A Sailor's Sweetheart
Movie • 1927
Claudette Ralston
Simple Sis
Movie • 1927
The Heart of Maryland
Movie • 1927
Mulatta
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie • 2008
Gertie Waxted (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Family Affair
TV • 1966
Columbo
TV • 1971
Lizzi Fielding
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Kate Kennedy
Ironside
TV • 1967
Andrea Wollcott
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mrs. Miles
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Nancy Knox
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Mary Sidney
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Maggie Webster
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Allie Evans
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self