Myrna Loy
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.
170 acting credits
Acting · 170
Columbo
1971
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Ironside
1967
American Experience
1988
The Virginian
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
Family Affair
1966
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The George Gobel Show
1954
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
General Electric Theater
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Thin Man
1934
Airport 1975
1974
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
The Jazz Singer
1927
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
Love Crazy
1941
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
Noah's Ark
1928
Another Thin Man
1939
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
After the Thin Man
1936
The Great Ziegfeld
1936
The End
1978
Midnight Lace
1960
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
Night Flight
1933
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
Complicated Women
2003
From the Terrace
1960
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Song of the Thin Man
1947
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
It Happened at Lakewood Manor
1977
The Devil to Pay!
1930
The Rains Came
1939
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
Love Me Tonight
1932
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Vanity Fair
1932
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
Penthouse
1933
The Red Pony
1949
Double Wedding
1937
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
Libeled Lady
1936
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
Emma
1932
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Broadway Bill
1934
Belles on Their Toes
1952
Show-Business at War
1943
Don Juan
1926
Lonelyhearts
1959
Too Hot to Handle
1938
The Animal Kingdom
1932
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Whipsaw
1935
The Black Watch
1929
Arrowsmith
1931
Thirteen Women
1932
So This Is Paris
1926
I Love You Again
1940
Twenty Years After
1944
Man-Proof
1938
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
Evelyn Prentice
1934
A Connecticut Yankee
1931
The Show of Shows
1929
Test Pilot
1938
The Ambassador's Daughter
1956
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Just Tell Me What You Want
1980
Men in White
1934
The Squall
1929
Parnell
1937
Topaze
1933
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
The Barbarian
1933
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
Lucky Night
1939
So Goes My Love
1946
The April Fools
1969
Isle of Escape
1930
The Heart of Maryland
1927
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971
The Elevator
1974
Under a Texas Moon
1930
Meet Me in St. Louis
1959
The Romance of Celluloid
1937
Transatlantic
1931
Why Girls Go Back Home
1926
The Wet Parade
1932
Indict and Convict
1974
The Last of the Duanes
1930
Pretty Ladies
1925
Stamboul Quest
1934
A Girl in Every Port
1928
Across the Pacific
1926
The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947
Skyline
1931
1925 Studio Tour
1925
To Mary - with Love
1936
When a Man Loves
1927
The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933
The Couple Takes a Wife
1972
That Dangerous Age
1949
Northward, Ho!
1940
The Girl from Chicago
1927
The Desert Song
1929
Renegades
1930
Summer Solstice
1981
Finger Prints
1927
The Wanderer
1925
The Great Divide
1929
The Bad Man
1930
Simple Sis
1927
Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927
Consolation Marriage
1931
The Jazz Cinderella
1930
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
Sporting Life
1925
State Street Sadie
1928
The Climbers
1927
Trifles of Importance
1940
Rebound
1931
Cameo Kirby
1930
Fancy Baggage
1929
Scarlet River
1933
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
The Exquisite Sinner
1926
Wings in the Dark
1935
New Morals for Old
1932
The Third Degree
1926
Beware of Married Men
1928
Hardboiled Rose
1929
A Sailor's Sweetheart
1927
Bitter Apples
1927
Evidence
1929
The Truth About Youth
1930
The Crimson City
1928
The Midnight Taxi
1928
When Ladies Meet
1933
Hush Money
1931
Body and Soul
1931
The Gilded Highway
1926
The Woman in Room 13
1932
The Naughty Flirt
1931
If I Were Single
1927
Bride of the Regiment
1930
What Price Beauty?
1928
Petticoat Fever
1936
The Love Toy
1926
Rogue of the Rio Grande
1930
Cock o' the Walk
1930
Turn Back the Hours
1928
The Cave Man
1926
Pay as You Enter
1928