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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 2, 1905
Died
December 14, 1993
Place of Birth
Radersburg, Montana, USA
Also Known As
- Мирна Лой
- میرنا لوی
Myrna Loy
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.5
Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
6.4
Gertie Waxted (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
4.9
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
7.5
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
8.5
Self (archive footage)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
1993
9.0
(archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
7.4
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
American Experience
1988
Credits
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.5
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Gertie Waxted (archive footage)
2008
6.4
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.9
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
7.5
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)
1993
8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
as (archive footage)
1990
9.0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
American Experience
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
7.4
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
1986
8.0
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Summer Solstice
as Margaret
1981
5.5
Just Tell Me What You Want
as Stella Liberti
1980
4.5
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
The End
as Maureen Lawson
1978
5.5
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
as Ethel
1977
4.5
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
5.7
Airport 1975
as Mrs. Devaney
1974
5.7
The Elevator
as Amanda Kenyon
1974
6.0
Indict and Convict
as Judge Christine Tayloy
1974
0.0
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Couple Takes a Wife
as Barbara's Mother
1972
0.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Evelyn Tryon
1971
5.9
Death Takes a Holiday
as Selena Chapman
1971
5.2
Columbo
as Lizzi Fielding
1971
8.1
The April Fools
as Grace Greenlaw
1969
6.0
Ironside
as Andrea Wollcott
1967
6.8
Family Affair
1966
6.6
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Nora Charles (archive footage)
1964
6.3
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
5.8
The Virginian
as Mrs. Miles
1962
6.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
0.0
Midnight Lace
as Aunt Bea
1960
6.5
From the Terrace
as Martha Eaton
1960
6.6
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Mary Sidney
1959
6.3
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
1959
5.0
Lonelyhearts
as Florence Shrike
1959
6.1
The Ambassador's Daughter
as Mrs. Cartwright
1956
4.3
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
General Electric Theater
as Kate Kennedy
1953
6.3
General Electric Theater
as Maggie Webster
1953
6.3
General Electric Theater
as Allie Evans
1953
6.3
Belles on Their Toes
as Lillian Gilbreth
1952
6.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Nancy Knox
1951
7.3
Cheaper by the Dozen
as Lillian Gilbreth
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
That Dangerous Age
as Lady Cathy Brooke
1949
6.5
The Red Pony
as Alice Tiflin
1949
5.7
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Muriel Blandings
1948
7.0
The Senator Was Indiscreet
as Mrs. Ashton (uncredited)
1947
5.4
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
as Judge Margaret Turner
1947
6.9
Song of the Thin Man
as Nora Charles
1947
6.8
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Milly Stephenson
1946
7.8
So Goes My Love
as Jane Budden Maxim
1946
7.0
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Nora Charles
1944
7.1
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
Show-Business at War
as Self
1943
7.0
Shadow of the Thin Man
as Nora Charles
1941
7.0
Love Crazy
as Susan Ireland
1941
7.1
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Margot Sherwood Merrick
1940
6.8
I Love You Again
as Kay Wilson
1940
7.2
Trifles of Importance
as Self (archive footage)
1940
6.0
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
1940
5.5
Northward, Ho!
as Herself
1940
5.0
Another Thin Man
as Nora Charles
1939
7.1
The Rains Came
as Lady Edwina Esketh
1939
5.9
🎬
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
Lucky Night
as Cora Jordan
1939
6.6
Too Hot to Handle
as Alma Harding
1938
5.8
Test Pilot
as Ann "Thursday" Barton
1938
6.5
Another Romance of Celluloid
as Self (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Man-Proof
as Mimi Swift
1938
4.8
Double Wedding
as Margit Agnew
1937
6.6
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self (archive footage)
1937
7.0
Parnell
as Katie O'Shea
1937
4.6
After the Thin Man
as Nora Charles
1936
7.3
Libeled Lady
as Constance 'Connie' Allenbury
1936
7.3
To Mary - with Love
as Mary Wallace
1936
4.5
The Great Ziegfeld
as Billie Burke
1936
6.3
Petticoat Fever
as Irene Campton
1936
5.5
Wife vs. Secretary
as Linda Stanhope
1936
6.8
Whipsaw
as Vivian Palmer
1935
6.2
Wings in the Dark
as Sheila Mason
1935
6.4
Broadway Bill
as Alice 'Princess' Higgins
1934
6.0
Evelyn Prentice
as Evelyn Prentice
1934
6.7
Stamboul Quest
as Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen
1934
5.4
The Thin Man
as Nora Charles
1934
7.5
Manhattan Melodrama
as Eleanor Packer
1934
7.0
Men in White
as Laura Hudson
1934
6.0
The Prizefighter and the Lady
as Belle Mercer
1933
5.7
Night Flight
as Wife of Brazilian Pilot
1933
5.8
Penthouse
as Gertie Waxted
1933
6.7
When Ladies Meet
as Mary
1933
5.6
The Barbarian
as Diana 'Di' Standing
1933
4.9
Scarlet River
as Herself (uncredited)
1933
4.5
Topaze
as Coco
1933
6.1
The Animal Kingdom
as Cecelia Henry Collier
1932
5.6
The Mask of Fu Manchu
as Fah Lo See
1932
5.5
Thirteen Women
as Ursula Georgi
1932
6.3
Love Me Tonight
as Countess Valentine
1932
6.6
New Morals for Old
as Myra
1932
4.2
The Woman in Room 13
as Sari Loder
1932
0.0
The Wet Parade
as Eileen Pinchon
1932
5.8
Vanity Fair
as Becky Sharp
1932
4.0
Emma
as Isabelle
1932
6.4
Arrowsmith
as Joyce Lanyon
1931
6.4
Consolation Marriage
as Elaine Brandon
1931
6.1
Skyline
as Paula Lambert
1931
0.0
Rebound
as Evie Lawrence
1931
4.3
Transatlantic
as Kay Graham
1931
5.5
Hush Money
as Flo Curtis
1931
0.0
A Connecticut Yankee
as Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion
1931
6.0
Body and Soul
as Alice Lester
1931
4.5
The Naughty Flirt
as Linda Gregory
1931
5.7
The Devil to Pay!
as Mary Crayle
1930
5.9
Rogue of the Rio Grande
as Carmita
1930
0.0
The Truth About Youth
as Kara
1930
5.7
Renegades
as Eleanore
1930
4.5
The Bad Man
as (uncredited)
1930
0.0
The Jazz Cinderella
as Mildred Vane
1930
0.0
The Last of the Duanes
as Lola Bland
1930
3.0
Bride of the Regiment
as Sophie
1930
6.0
Cock o' the Walk
as Narita
1930
3.2
Under a Texas Moon
as Lolita Romero
1930
1.0
Isle of Escape
as Moira
1930
6.0
Cameo Kirby
as Lea
1930
0.0
Evidence
as Native Girl
1929
0.0
Show of Shows
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
1929
5.5
The Great Divide
as Manuella
1929
4.8
The Black Watch
as Yasmani
1929
6.0
The Squall
as Nubi
1929
3.4
The Desert Song
as Azuri
1929
4.5
Hardboiled Rose
as Rose Duhamel
1929
0.0
Fancy Baggage
as Myrna
1929
0.0
Noah's Ark
as Showgirl / Slave Girl
1928
6.3
The Midnight Taxi
as Gertie Fairfax
1928
5.0
State Street Sadie
as Sadie
1928
0.0
Pay as You Enter
as Yvonne De Russo
1928
0.0
The Crimson City
as Isobel
1928
0.0
Turn Back the Hours
as Tiza Torreon
1928
0.0
A Girl in Every Port
as Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited)
1928
6.4
What Price Beauty?
as Vamp
1928
0.0
Beware of Married Men
as Juanita Sheldon
1928
1.0
If I Were Single
as Joan Whitley
1927
0.0
Ham and Eggs at the Front
as Fifi
1927
0.0
The Girl from Chicago
as Mary Carlton
1927
0.0
The Jazz Singer
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1927
6.1
A Sailor's Sweetheart
as Claudette Ralston
1927
7.0
When a Man Loves
as Convict Behind Manon (uncredited)
1927
6.4
The Heart of Maryland
as Mulatta
1927
0.0
Simple Sis
1927
0.0
The Climbers
as Countess Veya
1927
0.0
Bitter Apples
as Belinda White
1927
0.0
Finger Prints
as Vamp
1927
0.0
The Third Degree
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1926
0.0
Across the Pacific
as Roma
1926
4.5
Don Juan
as Mai - Lady in Waiting
1926
6.5
So This Is Paris
as Lalle's Maid (uncredited)
1926
6.3
The Exquisite Sinner
as Living Statue
1926
0.0
The Gilded Highway
as Inez Quartz
1926
0.0
Why Girls Go Back Home
as Sally Short
1926
0.0
The Love Toy
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1926
0.0
The Cave Man
as Maid
1926
0.0
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Slave Girl (uncredited)
1925
7.3
Sporting Life
as Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)
1925
0.0
Pretty Ladies
as Showgirl (uncredited)
1925
4.7
The Wanderer
as Girl at Baccanal (uncredited)
1925
1.0
1925 Studio Tour
as Self (uncredited)
1925
6.2