Myrna Loy (77 page)

finances during Loy’s childhood

grave

health

Helena

Helena Business College

Hornblow and

and Loy’s dance classes

and Loy’s first performance jobs

Loy’s independence from

Loy’s New York residences and

Loy’s schooling

Loy supporting

Loy’s wedding

marriage

Montana ranch

Montana trip (1940)

photos

World War II

Loy, Myrna—movie pay

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Belles on Their Toes

The Best Years of Our Lives

raising

Cheaper by the Dozen

Goldwyn

MGM

Miss Lonelyhearts

The Red Pony

To Mary–with Love

20th Century–Fox-70

Warner Bros.

Loy, Myrna—movies:

Across the Pacific

Airport 1975

The Ambassador’s Daughter

The Animal Kingdom

The April Fools

Arrowsmith

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Barbarian

Belles on Their Toes

Ben-Hur

The Best Years of Our Lives

Beware of Married Men

Bitter Apples

The Black Watch

Body and Soul

Bride of the Regiment

Broadway Bill

The Caveman

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cobra

screen test

Cock o’ the Walk

A

Connecticut Yankee

Consolation Marriage

Crimson City

dance performances

The Desert Song

The Devil to Pay

Don Juan

The Elevator

Emma

The End

Escapade

The Exquisite Sinner

first on-screen appearance

first screen test

Freaks

refusal

From the Terrace

The Girl from Chicago

Ham and Eggs at the Front

Hush Money

If This Be Sin

Infidelity

The Jazz Singer

Just Tell Me What You Want

Love Me Tonight

Lucky Night

Manhattan Melodrama

Man-Proof

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Men in White

Midnight Lace

Midnight Taxi

Miss Lonelyhearts

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

New Morals for Old

Night Flight

Noah’s Ark

Parnell

Penthouse

personal favorite

Pretty Ladies

The Prizefighter and the Lady

The Rains Came

Rebound

The Red Pony

Renegades

Satan in Sables

screen partnerships

Show of Shows

Skyline

Soak the Rich

So Goes My Love

So This Is Paris

The Squall

Stamboul Quest

State Street Sadie

Summer Solstice

Test Pilot

Third Finger, Left Hand

Thirteen Women

To Mary–with Love

Too Hot to Handle

Topaze

Transatlantic

The Truth about Youth

Under a Texas Moon

Vanity Fair

The Wet Parade

What Price Beauty?

(first film)

When Ladies Meet

Whipsaw

Wife vs. Secretary

Wings in the Dark

.

See also

Loy, Myrna—acting style; Loy, Myrna—agents; Loy, Myrna—movie pay; Loy, Myrna—movie status; Loy, Myrna—movie studios; Loy, Myrna—Powell screen partnership and friendship; Loy, Myrna—publicity limelight

Loy, Myrna—movie status: fan base at stage performances

has-been

Mayer and

movie star image

Queen of Hollywood

Screen Actors Guild

slide in star standing

Loy, Myrna—movie studios: cameramen

Chesterfield

Columbia Pictures

directors

Fox

Goldwyn

Paramount

RKO

Sono Art

20th Century–Fox

Warner Bros.

See also

MGM

Loy, Myrna—names: Minnie

“Miss Williams”

Myrna Adele

Myrna Loy

Queenie

Loy, Myrna—personality

celebrated

good girl label

shy

youth.

See also

Loy, Myrna—typecasting

Loy, Myrna—politics: Academy Awards presenting and

childhood

Civil Rights Act pen

cold war

Committee for the First Amendment

and communism

Democratic Party

Dunne’s differences

FBI and

fellow traveler label

Fonda and

vs. HUAC

internationalism

and Loy’s stage performances

and Masaryk

Montgomery and

National Committee against Discrimination in Housing

Nazis/Hitler

Newman and

Powell and

presidential elections

vs. Reagan

running for office

as Sargeant’s wife

Schary and

sixties youth

Spanish Civil War

Washington.

See also

Loy, Myrna—World War II

Loy, Myrna—Powell screen partnership and friendship

beloved till the end

box-office drawing power

divorce comedies

Double Wedding

Escapade

Evelyn Prentice

fourteenth and final

The Great Ziegfeld

I Love You Again

Legendary Ladies of the Movies series

Libeled Lady

Love Crazy

Loy-Hertz marriage

Loy-Hornblow social life

Loy’s maid meeting

Loy’s return to MGM

and Loy’s stage performances

Loy strike from MGM and

Manhattan Melodrama

(first picture together)

Pillow Talk

inspired by

politics

Powell cancer

St. Francis Hotel booking

The Senator Was Indiscreet

television possibility.

See also The Thin Man

series

Loy, Myrna—publicity limelight: Britain trip

for-real rescue of Loy by Gable

Loy-Hornblow relationship

Loy-Novarro relationship

“Must Marry Myrna” clubs

Myrna and Della’s trip to Montana

New York trip

The Thin Man

Loy, Myrna—residences

Bel Air

Delmas Terrace house

Europe

Georgetown

Helena

Hollywood

independence from family

Lake Arrowhead cabin

Malibu beach house

Montana ranch

New York

Pacific Palisades

Palos Verdes

Washington.

See also

Beverly Hills residences

Loy, Myrna—social life: Bel Air

Britain

Fox period

with Hornblow

with Markey

with Sargeant

Webb.

See also

dances, social

Loy, Myrna—stage acting

Barefoot in the Park

Broadway

Dear Love

Don Juan in Hell

The Marriage Go Round

pay

Relatively Speaking

Sarah Siddons Award

There Must Be a Pony

The Women

Loy, Myrna—trips

childhood

Europe

Hawaii

with Hornblow

Mexico

Montana (1940)

New York

passport

Rosson accompanying

Washington

Loy, Myrna—typecasting

Asian

exotic vixen she-devil schemers

Hispanic

Hornblow and

“intellectual flapper”

likable shady lady

maid

MGM

mothers

Other Woman

superwoman

tough-girl

Warner Bros.

working mother.

See also

wife roles, Loy’s

Loy, Myrna—World War II

Bundles for Bluejackets

vs. Nazis/Hitler

Red Cross work

Lubitsch, Ernst

Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

Hornblows’ social life

Lombard funeral

Myron Selznick funeral

So This Is Paris

Warner Bros.

wife

Lucas, Nick

Luce, Clare Boothe

Lucky Night

Lugosi, Bela

Lumet, Sidney

Lupino, Ida

Lux Radio Theater

MacArthur, Charles

MacArthur, General Douglas

MacDonald, Jeanette: Cukor directing

Gable and

Harlow funeral

Love Me Tonight

at Loy’s stage performance

Novarro musicale

San Francisco

MacFarlane, Louella Bamberger

dancing

Loy’s independence from Della

movies on Saturday afternoons

MacGowan, Kenneth

MacGraw, Ali

MacMurray, Fred

Madame Bovary

Madame X

Madam Satan

The Mad Miss Manton

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mahin, John Lee

Main, Marjorie

Malina, Arnie

The Maltese Falcon

Mamoulian, Rouben

Manhattan Melodrama

Mankiewicz, Herman

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Mann, Hank

Mann, Thomas

Manners, Dorothy

Mannix, Eddie

Harlow death

Loy and

Escapade

Men in White

censorship

Myron Selznick funeral

snooping on stars

on Thalberg

The Thin Man

costs

Man-Proof

Mansfield, Mike

Mantz, Paul

March, Fredric:

The Best Years of Our Lives

Loy co-star

politics

March of Dimes

Marie Antoinette

Marina, Duchess of Kent

Marion, Frances

Markey, Gene

Dartmouth grad

daughter Melinda

divorce

If This Be Sin

Loy relationship

and Lucille Parker Wright

Menjou to, on Loy as communist

Navy

sexual infidelities

and Shirley Temple

The Wonder Kid

Marnie

marriage:

The Animal Kingdom

and

The Best Years of Our Lives

Consolation Marriage

and

Harlow-Powell relationship and

Libeled Lady

Loy boosting

Loy’s parents

Mayer

movie trends

older-man-with-much-younger-woman formula

Production Code and

between stars

The Thin Man

To Mary–with Love

Topaze

and

Visart-Taylor.

See also

divorce; Hornblow, Arthur Jr.—marriages; Loy, Myrna—marriages; sexual infidelities; wife roles, Loy

The Marriage Go Round

Marsh, Meg

Marshall, Alan

Marshall, Herbert

Marshall, Penny

Martin, Mary

Marx, Sam

Masaryk, Jan

Masaryk, Tomas

Maskerade

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Mason, James

Masquerade in Vienna

Matilda, Madame

Maugham, Somerset

Maxwell, Elsa

Mayer, Louis B.

daughter Edie

daughter Irene

Escapade

casting

Gable called on the carpet by

and Garson

“happy pictures about happy people”

Harlow death

Hearst fallout

Loy’s anger toward

Loy’s status at MGM

Loy typecasting

Loy working during Hertz marriage

and Nazi Germany

pay reduction

politics

Powell and Gable

The Prizefighter and the Lady

and Production Code

Rainer’s contempt for

Schary clashing with

Schenck contrasted with

vs. ScreenWriters’ Guild

and Myron Selznick

Stromberg

contract quarrel

Thalberg relationship

after Thalberg’s death

and Tracy

World War II.

See also

MGM

Mayo, Archie

Mayo, Virginia

Mayo, Walter

MCA

McBride, Joseph

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthyism

McCarthy, Joseph

McDonald, Elizabeth

McDowall, Roddy: American Place Theatre celebration