Myrna Loy (79 page)

See also

Loy, Myrna—movie pay

Peck, Gregory

Pendleton, Nat

Penn, Theresa

Penthouse

Perfect Wife

Loy-Hornblow relationship

Loy marriage proposals

“Must Marry Myrna” clubs

Night Flight

Test Pilot

upscale.

See also The Thin Man

series

Périnal, Georges

Perkins, Frances

The Philadelphia Story

Philippe, Gérard

photography.

See

cameramen

Photoplay:

Chevalier

current starlets

Gable

Grant’s “She’s My Dream Wife”

Hollywood production low

“Hollywood Wakes Up”

Loy garden interview

Loy-Hornblow relationship

Loy hospital stay

Loy-Norton relationship

Loy praised

Loy shyness

Pickford, Jack

Pickford, Mary

Pidgeon, Walter

Pillow Talk

Pinky

Pitts, ZaSu

A Place in the Sun

The Plough and the Stars

politics: actors’ rights

“Broadway for Stevenson”

Grant shying from

internationalist

Lombard

Markey shying from

“message pictures”

movie industry

Native American

postwar

presidential elections

The Senator Was Indiscreet

satire

Narcissa Cox Vanderlip’s

wartime Hollywood.

See also

cold war; Democratic Party; Loy, Myrna—politics; Nazis/Hitler; Republican Party; wars

Pons, Lily

Pope, Dr. SaxtonT.

Pope, Jeanne

Popper, Mrs. John

popularity polls: Gable as King of Hollywood

Garbo

Loy as Queen of Hollywood.

See also

Loy, Myrna—movie status; top box-office movies

Porter, Cole

Possessed

Poulsen, William A.

Powell, Jane

Powell, William

death (1984)

education

Embassy Club dinner

with Harlow

Harlow funeral

health crisis

La Cava directing

Ladies Man

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Lombard funeral

Lombard marriage

My Man Godfrey

pay

Reckless

Rendezvous

retiring (1956)

RKO

Romola

and Rosalind Russell

Myron Selznick funeral

Sherlock Holmes

talkie transition

wife Diana “Mousie”

World War II.

See also

Loy, Myrna—Powell screen partnership and friendship; MGM

Power, Tyrone

The Rains Came

wife Annabella

World War II

Pretty Ladies

Prevost, Marie

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private War of Major Benson

The Prizefighter and the Lady

Production Code Administration (PCA):

The Barbarian

and

Infidelity

Libeled Lady

marriage

Mayer and

vs. miscegenation

pre-Code

The Rains Came

replaced by Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system

The Thin Man

To Mary–with Love

Wife vs. Secretary

.

See also

Breen, Joseph; Hays Office

profits:

The Best Years of Our Lives

Cheaper by the Dozen

MGM

The Thin Man

series

Warner Bros.

See also

top box-office movies

Prohibition

psychotherapy, Loy

publicity: Boatwright

Harlow

MGM machine

The Thin Man

series.

See also

Loy, Myrna—agents; Loy, Myrna—publicity limelight;

individual publications

Queen of Hollywood, Loy

Quigley’s Annual List

Quirk, Lawrence

race: Civil Rights Act (1968)

Della and

miscegenation

“Negro comedy,”.

See also

Asian roles; Jews

Radersburg, Montana

radio

“America Calling”

Hollywood Fights Back

and Hollywood production reaching

all-time low

King and Queen of Hollywood

Lux Radio Theater

I Love You Again

Masaryk broadcasts

Murrow reports

Radio Liberation

The Thin Man

excerpts

Warner Bros. and KFWB

Raft, George

railroads

Rain

Rainer, Luise

The Rains Came

Rambova, Natacha

The Hooded Falcon

Loy as “intellectual flapper”

and Loy’s first screen test

step-aunt

Valentino and

What Price Beauty?

Ramsey, Ray

Randall, Tony

Random House, Cerf

Rapf, Harry

Rarick, Peter

Rathbone, Basil

Rathbone, Mrs. Basil (Ouida Bergere)

Ratoff, Gregory

Rattigan, Terrance

The Razor’s Edge

Reagan, Ronald

Reap the Wild Wind

Rebound

Reckless

Redbook

magazine

The Thin Man

Red Cross, Loy work

The Red Pony

movie

The Red Pony

(Steinbeck)

Red scares.

See also

communists

Reinhardt, Gottfried

Reinhardt, Max

Reis, Irving

Relatively Speaking

(Ayckbourn)

Rendezvous

Renegades

Rennick, Avery

Republican Party: Eisenhower presidency

Loy’s father

Mayer

Nixon

Powell

Reagan

J. Parnell Thomas

Republic Pictures,

The Red Pony

residences: “Blandings Dream Houses,”.

See also

Loy, Myrna—residences

Revere, Anne

Reynolds, Burt

Rich, Irene

Richter, Conrad

Riding High

Rin Tin Tin films

Riskin, Everett

Riskin, Robert

Ritz-Carlton Pictures

RKO:

The Animal Kingdom

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Berman

communists fired by

Consolation Marriage

Crossfire

Dunne

Grant

Loy

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Powell

Rebound

Schary

Selznick

Thirteen Women

Tracy

“The Road to Rome” (Sherwood)

Robin Hood

Robinson, Edward G.

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rodgers, Richard

Rogers, Ginger

Rogers, Howard Emmett

Rogers, Will

Rohmer, Sax

Romberg, Sigmund

Romeo and Juliet

Romola

Rooney, Mickey

Roosevelt, Eleanor: congresswoman Douglas helped by

death (1962)

Greek War Relief

Harlow and

Kennedy rally

Estelle Linzer

Loy and

United Nations

Vanderlip and

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR): Atlantic Charter Conference (1941)

banks closed by

birthday celebration (1942)

death (1945)

German-made goods embargo petition

Harlow invitation

Hollywood supporters

and Loy

Mayer vs.

“Rendezvous with Destiny” speech

Sherwood as speechwriter and director of the overseas Office of War Information

Sunrise at Campobello

(Schary) about

Thalberg’s death

World War II

Yalta

Roosevelt, Teddy

Rose, Arthur

Rosine, Lillian

Rosson, Leone

and Della

diary

finance assistant for Loy

Loy-Clift friendship

Loy eightieth birthday

Loy-Hertz divorce

Loy-Markey divorce

Loy’s theater tour

New York help

Ruggles of Red Gap

Russell, Charles

Russell, Harold

Russell, Rosalind

Evelyn Prentice

female executive parts

Grant and

His Girl Friday

husband-stealer parts

at Loy’s stage performance

Man-Proof

Powell co-star

Rendezvous

The Thin Man

series and

top-ranked comedy actress

World War II

Ryan, Robert

St. Denis, Ruth

Sandburg, Carl

Sanders, George

San Diego, Loy’s childhood

San Francisco:

Broadway Bill

Dr. Pope

Duncan

Fanchon and Marco

Hammett

Loy at University of California Hospital

The Thin Man

series

UNESCO

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco

megamusical

San Francisco News-Call Bulletin: Hollywood Fights Back

vs. HUAC

Hornblow, Loy, and Colbert at Paramount

Loy and Grant in

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Loy and Grant in

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Loy campaigning for Stevenson

Loy, Powell, and Bay Bridge

Loy the exotic

Sarah Siddons Award

Saratoga

Sargeant, Howland

Satan in Sables

Saxe, Bill

Schallert, Edwin

Schary, Dore: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

daughter Jill

HUAC

MGM

Miss Lonelyhearts

RKO

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Sunrise at Campobello

Waldorf statement

Schauffler, Elsie

Schenck, Nick

Schertzinger, Hazel

Schertzinger, Victor

Scheuer, Philip K.

Schildkraut, Joseph

Schlesinger, John

Schmeling, Max

Scott, Adrian

Scott, Randolph

Screen Actors Guild: founding

Loy and

Screenland

magazine, Loy for best performances of the month

Screen Writers’ Guild

The Sea Beast

Sea of Grass

(Richter)

The Secret Six

Sederburg, Albert W.

Selznick, David O.:

The Animal Kingdom

Dinner at Eight

Gone with the Wind

and Loy’s ears

Manhattan Melodrama

MGM

Powell helped by

The Rains Came

RKO

on Van Dyke and Cukor

Vanguard Pictures

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Selznick, Lewis

Selznick, Myron

Selznick-Joyce Agency

Selznick Releasing Organization

The Senator Was Indiscreet

Sennwald, André

Sergeant York

Sersen, Fred

Sexton, Anne

sexual infidelities: Hammett

Hornblow

Leslie Howard

Loy on love and

Markey

in movies

Zanuck

sexuality: John Barrymore’s habits

Clift

Gable as sex symbol

Harlow

Loy’s declaration of independence

Loy’s youthful knowledge

Mayer and

in movie marriages

Norton

Novarro

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Thin Man

To Mary–with Love

Wife vs. Secretary

.

See also

censorship; marriage; sexual infidelities

Shadow of the Thin Man

Shaw, Artie

Shaw, George Bernard

Shawn, Ted

Shearer, Norma: crown

Cukor directing

Marie Antoinette

Pretty Ladies

The Prizefighter and the Lady

Raft romance

retired

and Thalberg

Minna Wallis and

World War II

The Sheik

Sheldon, Sidney

Shepard, Sam

Sherlock Holmes

Sherman, Lowell

Sherman, Richard

Sherwood, Robert E.

Shipman, Nell

Show of Shows

(movie)

Sidney, Sylvia

Sikov, Ed

silent era

Simon, Neil

Sinatra, Frank

Sinclair, Upton

Sino-Japanese war

Siri

Sitting Pretty

Skyline

Smith, Alexis

Smith, Kate

Soak the Rich

Soares, André

social life.

See

dances, social; Loy, Myrna—social life

So Goes My Love

Song of the Thin Man

Sono Art

Sothern, Ann

So This Is Paris

sound in movies

synchronized

Vitaphone.