Myrna Loy
American actress (1905-1993) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 88
Myrna Loy was an American film, television, and stage actress. As a performer, she was known for her ability to adapt to her screen partner's acting style.
In history
The Jazz Singer Premieres · Cast
The first full-length feature film with synchronized dialogue and music revolutionized cinema overnight, making silent films obsolete and inaugurating the age of talking pictures.
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Al Jolson
Darryl F. Zanuck
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1993Died14 December 19931990Academy Honorary AwardAward1988Kennedy Center HonorsAward
American ExperienceSeries, 19881980National Board of Review Award for Career AchievementAward1978
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries1977
It Happened at Lakewood ManorFilm, Ethel1974
Airport 1975Film, Mrs. Devaney1971
ColumboSeries, Lizzi Fielding1967
IronsideSeries, Andrea Wollcott1966
Family AffairSeries1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1960
From the TerraceFilm, Martha Eaton1959
The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries, Mary Sidney1954The George Gobel ShowSeries1951
Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeries, Nancy Knox1950
What's My Line?Series1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseFilm, Muriel Blandings1946
The Best Years of Our LivesFilm, Milly Stephenson1941
Love CrazyFilm, Susan Ireland1940
I Love You AgainFilm, Kay Wilson1938
Test PilotFilm, Ann "Thursday" Barton1936
After the Thin ManFilm, Nora Charles1933
PenthouseFilm, Gertie Waxted1931
ArrowsmithFilm, Joyce Lanyon1927The Jazz Singer PremieresCast, The first full-length feature film with synchronized dialogue and music revolutionized cinema overnight, making silent films obsolete and inaugurating the age of talking pictures.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA218K Wikipedia readers in the past year
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The Jazz SingerFilm, 1927Chorus Girl (uncredited)1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the ChristFilm, Slave Girl (uncredited)1905Born2 August 1905
American ExperienceSeries, 19881980National Board of Review Award for Career AchievementAward1978The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries1977It Happened at Lakewood ManorFilm, Ethel1974Airport 1975Film, Mrs. Devaney1971ColumboSeries, Lizzi Fielding1967IronsideSeries, Andrea Wollcott1966Family AffairSeries1961The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1960From the TerraceFilm, Martha Eaton1959The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries, Mary Sidney1954The George Gobel ShowSeries1951Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeries, Nancy Knox1950What's My Line?Series1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseFilm, Muriel Blandings1946The Best Years of Our LivesFilm, Milly Stephenson1941Love CrazyFilm, Susan Ireland1940I Love You AgainFilm, Kay Wilson1938Test PilotFilm, Ann "Thursday" Barton1936After the Thin ManFilm, Nora Charles1933PenthouseFilm, Gertie Waxted1931ArrowsmithFilm, Joyce Lanyon1927The Jazz Singer PremieresCast, The first full-length feature film with synchronized dialogue and music revolutionized cinema overnight, making silent films obsolete and inaugurating the age of talking pictures.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA218K Wikipedia readers in the past year4 moreThe Jazz SingerFilm, 1927Chorus Girl (uncredited)1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the ChristFilm, Slave Girl (uncredited)1905Born2 August 1905People around Myrna
William Powell Also in The Great Ziegfeld and Another Thin Man
David O. Selznick Produced Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced The Jazz Singer and The Rains Came
William Fox Produced A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Clarence Brown Directed Wife vs. Secretary and The Rains Came
Lloyd Bacon Directed Pay as You Enter and Finger Prints
W. S. Van Dyke Directed The Thin Man and Manhattan Melodrama
Hunt Stromberg Produced The Great Ziegfeld and The Thin Man- Lawrence Weingarten Produced Libeled Lady and When Ladies Meet
John G. Adolfi Directed The Show of Shows and Evidence
Samuel Goldwyn Produced The Best Years of Our Lives (1947)
Victor Fleming Directed Test Pilot and The Wet Parade
Michael Curtiz Directed Noah's Ark and The Third Degree
Sam Wood Directed The Barbarian and Whipsaw
Robert Z. Leonard Directed The Great Ziegfeld and When Ladies Meet
Richard Thorpe Directed The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Jack Conway Directed Libeled Lady and Too Hot to Handle- William Axt Wrote The Thin Man (1934)
Dore Schary Produced The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Clark Gable Also in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
Howard Hawks Directed A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Nat Pendleton Also in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
George Fitzmaurice Directed The Devil to Pay! and Petticoat Fever
John Ford Directed Arrowsmith and The Black Watch
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The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
The Thin Man 1934
After the Thin Man 1936
Libeled Lady 1936
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
174 credits on file
Television 14
Media & music
Photos 12
Loy (left) at age six, standing on her grandmother's porch in Helena, Montana, with her cousin Laura Belle Wilder (1911)
Loy modeled for the central figure in Harry Fielding Winebrenner's Fountain of Education, a sculpture at Venice High School in Los Angeles (1922)
In its September 1925 issue, Motion Picture featured two Henry Waxman photographs of Loy, costumed by Adrian, as she appeared in What Price Beauty?.
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About this person
Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1993 · aged 88
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