What do you think of Myrna Loy's looks?

Beautiful nose

Quite beautiful

What does she think of mine?

Great link

She had her own look, which was important to make it.

She looks like an oriental.

So did Doris Duke.

Al Hirschfeld's caricature of her

Georgeous

R8 Hilarious and accurate.

I don't think the caricature captures her at all. She was exquisite.

What does everyone think of her nose?

She was cast as exotics early in her career.

As a leading lady, she looked lovely.

She was beautiful.

Explicit statue.

What made her famous?

[quote]What made her famous?

Her onscreen chemistry with William Powell in "The Thin Man" series made her a movie audience favorite.

Not as good lately.

R16 She must have been slutty to pose for that statue in 1922

OP, a photo would be helpful to anyone under 75.

I think 2023 will be the year they really start to go.

R16 - she was a student at Venice high school - the sculpture was by the school’s art teacher.

Her nose was perfection

Was she homophobic?

She defended her old friend Joan Crawford against Christina's book, even though everyone else who knew Lucille knew that she was always a bit of a lunatic.

She was close to Montgomery Clift.

She never gave me a boner

[quote] She was close to Montgomery Clift.

Before the smashed nose or after it?

R29 Google the two of them.

Google says she was close to Montgomery Clift for six weeks in 1958.

Myrna and Monty became good friends during and after filming "Lonelyhearts" in 1958. Clift, by then, was a mess: "Monty was having problems then. He was full of all kinds of problems, many of them imaginary." - Myrna Loy.

Insomniac Monty also had an annoying habit of calling friends at all hours of the night, chatting for hours about this and that. Loy was a frequent recipient of such calls, but she eventually grew tired of it and distanced herself from him, as many other friends had done.

Stunner

Myrna Loy, activist. Not going to summarize this but it's a nice summing up of Myrna's progressivism through the years.

She selflessly put her career on hold and took a leave of absence from MGM during WWII to work for the war effort but made a fabulous comeback in 1946 with The Best Years of Our Lives. True, it was at a time when all of her MGM contemporaries like Crawford, Garbo and Shearer also aged out and left the studio to retire or, in Joan's case, to move over to Warner Bros.

Though she was an A Lister throughout the 1930s and 40s, she never headlined a film on her own but always with equal (or lesser) billing to a male star, usually William Powell, Clark Gable or Cary Grant. So there was never a "Myrna Loy movie." She was a true Co-Star.

And though she played The Perfect Wife onscreen, none of her many marriages ever lasted more than a few years.

[quote] Loy’s role in William Wyler’s 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives had implicated her in the United States’ growing anti-Communist fervor that was threatening livelihoods in Hollywood and beyond.

I don't understand.

Was 'The Best Years of Our Lives' a pro-Communist movie?

[quote]took a leave of absence from MGM during WWII to work for the war effort

Myrna Loy was pretty much done with MGM, and wanted to concentrate on her new marriage and her Red Cross war duties. She refused to do "The Thin Man Goes Home," which was slated for a 1942 release, and Irene Dunne was to take her place. But that deal fell through and Myrna was asked to reconsider, which she did in 1944, after the new marriage had crumbled. When she returned to film after the war, it was as a freelancer, doing "So Goes My Love" (1946) for Universal and "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) and "The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer" (1947) both for RKO.

Interestingly, within one year beginning in 1942, five of MGM's highest paid actresses had exited MGM: Myrna Loy, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Jeannette MacDonald.

She was sexy.

Couldn't Eleanor Powell be added to that list of former MGM leading ladies exiting by the end of WWII? Maybe hard to believe now but she was certainly MGM;s biggest musical star of the 1930s, with the possible exception of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy who, as singers were not really comparable. But all of those actresses had 10+ years as leading ladies so perhaps it's not so odd. None of them wanted to start playing mother roles to the likes of Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr.

I always thought she had a face like a porcelain doll. Quite pretty.

She had a nice supporting role in the Doris Day/Rex Harrison flick "Midnight Lace" that came out in the late 1950's.

In it, Loy is seen to have held up well in the looks department and was in the midst of what one could describe as "aging gracefully".

Myrna Loy is a fave of mine! We recently watched the original 1934 era Thin Man movie (again!) that launched the series and enjoyed it very much. The comic timing and onscreen chemistry between Loy and William Powell is quite evident and fun to watch!

I'm currently reading the book upon which it's based written by Dashiell Hammett. At times it is completely recognizable via the screenplay as presented in the filmed version of The Thin Man. In other words, complete segments of the book dialogue were wholly lifted and put into the script.

As a side note, the very young and extremely handsome Cesar Romero had a small part in the film.

Set over Christmas, the flick had that time element in the background but nevertheless that makes the film appropriate for Christmas season viewing.

In a bit of trivia, the last entry in the Thin Man series was made i n1947 and stared both Loy and Powell.

Gorgeous. Myrna Loy had a naturalistic acting style that holds up well today. I adore her.

She's been looking really ashy ever since her cremation.

MGM could afford to lose those stars. They had Judy to keep the studio going through the 40s. If she had been justly paid she would have had a fortune. And blown through it anyway.

Judy and Greer Garson and Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner and Katharine Hepburn, to mention only a few of the ladies, r44.

And Judy could have played any of their roles but none of them could have replaced Judy.

When Garbo and Shearer departed MGM, Joan Crawford thought she would finally have first pick of the great lady roles that she had long coveted. Those hopes were dashed, however, when newbie Greer Garson was cast in "Mrs Miniver" and "Madame Curie." Clearly, Greer had been groomed as Shearer's replacement, while Hedy Lamarr replaced Garbo, and Lana Turner replaced the late Jean Harlow. But who inherited Myrna Loy's mantle? Nancy Davis?

I really don't think Joan Crawford was crazy enough to assume she'd be called upon to play Madame Curie or the veddy British Mrs. Miniver.

And though I agree Hedy was thought to be a sort of replacement for Garbo, I'd bet Hedy's presence on the lot was far more of a threat to Joan than Greer ever was.

Myrna looked very glamorous dragging on a nicotine stick in a lovely aqua-coloured cardboard poster I saw in the front window of a dusty barber/tobacconist's shop in the suburbs or a certain city many, many decades ago now.

[quote]MGM could afford to lose those stars. They had Judy to keep the studio going through the 40s.

R44 Pretty sure Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Katharine Hepburn and Esther Williams didn't have any moss growing on them, either.

They didn't want to see them they wanted to see Judy. Those others were no better than stand ins.

She’s bisexual

Stunningly beautiful.

Madonna lookalike

Classy and sexy. Straight men loved her.

What do you think of Myrna Loy's looks?

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[quote]What do you think about MAMBO!

Oh dear, r56.

Garson replaced Shearer? Aside from her wonky eye, Shearer had one of the most photogenic faces in film at the time. Garson was odd looking with beady eyes that could give Glen Powell a run for his money. Maybe their acting styles were similar I dunno.

Very Charles Dana Gibson.

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House.

Agree about the aging gracefully. I thought she’d played a mother role—to Jane Fonda in Barefoot in the Park? a well preserved matron in a bouclé suit and hat and gloves holding a frame handbag, ordering a martini but looking at her IMDb page, I can find no such role in the mid-60s. How short-sighted is Hollywood.

[quote]I thought she’d played a mother role—to Jane Fonda in Barefoot in the Park?

Fuck you, r60.

R60 you are thinking of "The April Fools" where odd couple jack lemon and Catherine Deneuve run into elder odd couple Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy. There is a similar scene in "Barefoot in the Park" - so similar in fact when I read your post I believed you were correct about the Jane Fonda thing, until I scanned IMDB.

I thought I was the only person who'd ever seen "The April Fools" and apparently you were the only other person. I remember loving it because it was not your usual rom-com.

Jack Lemmon. Oh, dear on myself, though in my defense it was auto-correct, I just didn't catch it

She was also very good as Paul Newman’s alcoholic mother in FROM THE TERRACE.

She was a lez, no?

r65 - no

Seriously, R66? Where did I get that from? I was sure I read about it. Maybe here on DL. My heart is broken!

I'm going to do some Internet sleuthing and slide back in here in due course!

Something happened to her nose, it looked like it was falling off at her Kennedy Center Honors

Myrna's nose was the most popularly requested model requested by plastic surgeon clients in the 1930s and 40s.

Sadly, too many of them wound up with the Ann Miller model.