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.
Movie | Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 |
Movie | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Gertie Waxted (archive footage) | 2008-03-03 |
Movie | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
Movie | William Powell: A True Gentleman | 2005-08-02 | |
Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell | Self (archive footage) | 1993-02-06 |
Movie | Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon | Ursula Georgi (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To | (archive footage) | 1990-06-04 |
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Movie | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage) | 1986-03-09 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
Movie | Summer Solstice | Margaret | 1981-12-30 |
Movie | Just Tell Me What You Want | Stella Liberti | 1980-01-18 |
Movie | The End | Maureen Lawson | 1978-05-10 |
Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
Movie | It Happened at Lakewood Manor | Ethel | 1977-12-02 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
Movie | Indict and Convict | Judge Christine Tayloy | 1974-01-06 |
Movie | The Elevator | Amanda Kenyon | 1974-02-09 |
Movie | Airport 1975 | Mrs. Devaney | 1974-10-18 |
Movie | The Couple Takes a Wife | Barbara's Mother | 1972-12-05 |
Movie | Death Takes a Holiday | Selena Chapman | 1971-10-23 |
Series | Columbo | Lizzi Fielding | 1971-09-15 |
Movie | Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Evelyn Tryon | 1971-11-09 |
Movie | The April Fools | Grace Greenlaw | 1969-05-28 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Movie | Inside Daisy Clover | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1965-12-22 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Nora Charles (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | From the Terrace | Martha Eaton | 1960-07-15 |
Movie | Midnight Lace | Aunt Bea | 1960-10-13 |
Movie | Lonelyhearts | Florence Shrike | 1959-03-04 |
Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Anna Smith | 1959-04-26 |
Series | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Unknown | 1959-09-21 |
Movie | The Ambassador's Daughter | Mrs. Cartwright | 1956-07-26 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Belles on Their Toes | Lillian Gilbreth | 1952-05-02 |
Movie | Cheaper by the Dozen | Lillian Gilbreth | 1950-03-31 |
Movie | The Red Pony | Alice Tiflin | 1949-03-08 |
Movie | That Dangerous Age | Lady Cathy Brooke | 1949-04-13 |
Movie | Song of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1947-08-28 |
Movie | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Judge Margaret Turner | 1947-09-01 |
Movie | The Senator Was Indiscreet | Mrs. Ashton (uncredited) | 1947-12-31 |
Movie | So Goes My Love | Jane Budden Maxim | 1946-05-01 |
Movie | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944-01-01 |
Movie | The Thin Man Goes Home | Nora Charles | 1944-12-24 |
Movie | Show-Business at War | Self | 1943-05-21 |
Movie | Shadow of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1941-11-21 |
Movie | Love Crazy | Susan Ireland | 1941-05-23 |
Movie | Northward, Ho! | Herself | 1940-02-10 |
Movie | Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940-05-29 |
Movie | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
Movie | I Love You Again | Kay Wilson | 1940-08-09 |
Movie | Third Finger, Left Hand | Margot Sherwood Merrick | 1940-10-11 |
Movie | From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939-05-28 |
Movie | Lucky Night | Cora Jordan | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | The Rains Came | Lady Edwina Esketh | 1939-09-15 |
Movie | Another Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1939-11-17 |
Movie | Man-Proof | Mimi Swift | 1938-01-07 |
Movie | Test Pilot | Ann "Thursday" Barton | 1938-04-16 |
Movie | Too Hot to Handle | Alma Harding | 1938-09-16 |
Movie | The Romance of Celluloid | Self (archive footage) | 1937-08-27 |
Movie | Parnell | Katie O'Shea | 1937-06-04 |
Movie | Double Wedding | Margit Agnew | 1937-10-15 |
Movie | The Great Ziegfeld | Billie Burke | 1936-04-08 |
Movie | Wife vs. Secretary | Linda Stanhope | 1936-02-28 |
Movie | Petticoat Fever | Irene Campton | 1936-03-20 |
Movie | To Mary - with Love | Mary Wallace | 1936-08-01 |
Movie | After the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1936-12-25 |
Movie | Libeled Lady | Constance 'Connie' Allenbury | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | Wings in the Dark | Sheila Mason | 1935-02-01 |
Movie | Men in White | Laura Hudson | 1934-04-06 |
Movie | Manhattan Melodrama | Eleanor Packer | 1934-05-04 |
Movie | The Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1934-05-25 |
Movie | Evelyn Prentice | Evelyn Prentice | 1934-11-09 |
Movie | Broadway Bill | Alice 'Princess' Higgins | 1934-11-30 |
Movie | Scarlet River | Herself (uncredited) | 1933-03-10 |
Movie | Topaze | Coco | 1933-02-24 |
Movie | The Barbarian | Diana 'Di' Standing | 1933-05-12 |
Movie | The Prizefighter and the Lady | Belle Mercer | 1933-11-10 |
Movie | When Ladies Meet | Mary | 1933-06-23 |
Movie | Night Flight | Wife of Brazilian Pilot | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | Penthouse | Gertie Waxted | 1933-09-08 |
Movie | Vanity Fair | Becky Sharp | 1932-03-15 |
Movie | The Wet Parade | Eileen Pinchon | 1932-03-26 |
Movie | Emma | Isabelle | 1932-01-02 |
Movie | New Morals for Old | Myra | 1932-06-04 |
Movie | The Woman in Room 13 | Sari Loder | 1932-05-15 |
Movie | Thirteen Women | Ursula Georgi | 1932-09-16 |
Movie | The Animal Kingdom | Cecelia Henry Collier | 1932-12-28 |
Movie | A Connecticut Yankee | Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion | 1931-04-06 |
Movie | Body and Soul | Alice Lester | 1931-02-22 |
Movie | Transatlantic | Kay Graham | 1931-08-19 |
Movie | Hush Money | Flo Curtis | 1931-07-05 |
Movie | Rebound | Evie Lawrence | 1931-08-28 |
Movie | Consolation Marriage | Elaine Brandon | 1931-11-21 |
Movie | Arrowsmith | Joyce Lanyon | 1931-12-07 |
Movie | Skyline | Paula Lambert | 1931-10-08 |
Movie | Bride of the Regiment | Sophie | 1930-05-21 |
Movie | The Last of the Duanes | Lola Bland | 1930-08-31 |
Movie | The Jazz Cinderella | Mildred Vane | 1930-09-01 |
Movie | Cameo Kirby | Lea | 1930-01-12 |
Movie | Under a Texas Moon | Lolita Romero | 1930-04-01 |
Movie | Cock o' the Walk | Narita | 1930-04-13 |
Movie | The Truth About Youth | Kara | 1930-11-03 |
Movie | The Bad Man | (uncredited) | 1930-09-11 |
Movie | The Naughty Flirt | Linda Gregory | 1930-12-17 |
Movie | The Devil to Pay! | Mary Crayle | 1930-12-18 |
Movie | Rogue of the Rio Grande | Carmita | 1930-12-07 |
Movie | Renegades | Eleanore | 1930-10-26 |
Movie | The Desert Song | Azuri | 1929-04-08 |
Movie | Hardboiled Rose | Rose Duhamel | 1929-03-30 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | Myrna | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | The Squall | Nubi | 1929-05-09 |
Movie | The Great Divide | Manuella | 1929-09-15 |
Movie | Evidence | Native Girl | 1929-12-05 |
Movie | The Black Watch | Yasmani | 1929-05-22 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | A Girl in Every Port | Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited) | 1928-02-26 |
Movie | State Street Sadie | Sadie | 1928-08-25 |
Movie | What Price Beauty? | Vamp | 1928-01-22 |
Movie | Noah's Ark | Showgirl / Slave Girl | 1928-11-01 |
Movie | The Midnight Taxi | Gertie Fairfax | 1928-09-01 |
Movie | Fashion News | Self (1928, 1930) | 1928-11-06 |
Movie | Bitter Apples | Belinda White | 1927-04-23 |
Movie | When a Man Loves | Convict Behind Manon (uncredited) | 1927-08-21 |
Movie | The Jazz Singer | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 1927-10-06 |
Movie | Why Girls Go Back Home | Sally Short | 1926-03-01 |
Movie | The Exquisite Sinner | Living Statue | 1926-03-28 |
Movie | So This Is Paris | Lalle's Maid (uncredited) | 1926-07-31 |
Movie | Don Juan | Mai - Lady in Waiting | 1926-08-06 |
Movie | 1925 Studio Tour | Self (uncredited) | 1925-04-09 |
Movie | Pretty Ladies | Showgirl (uncredited) | 1925-09-06 |
Movie | Sporting Life | Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited) | 1925-11-29 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Slave Girl (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
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