Myrna Loy (1905–1993)

Actress | Soundtrack

Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana. Her ...

Born: August 2, 1905
Died: December 14, 1993 (age 88)

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Filmography

Known For

The Thin Man Nora Charles (1934)
The Best Years of Our Lives Milly Stephenson (1946)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Muriel Blandings (1948)
Known For

After the Thin Man Nora (1936)
Actress

Love, Sidney Vera Lonnigan (1982)
Summer Solstice Margaret (1981)
Just Tell Me What You Want Stella Liberti (1980)
Where Do You Hide the Sun? (1980)
The End Maureen Lawson (1978)
Ants! Ethel (1977)
Airport 1975 Mrs. Devaney (1974)
The Elevator Amanda Kenyon (1974)
Indict and Convict Judge Christine Tayloy (1974)
Ironside Andrea Wollcott (1973)
The Couple Takes a Wife Barbara's Mother (1972)
Columbo Lizzy Fielding (1972)
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate Evelyn Tryon (1971)
Death Takes a Holiday Selena Chapman (1971)
The April Fools Grace Greenlaw (1969)
Thalath Nessa (1968)
The Virginian Mrs. Miles (1967)
Family Affair Adele (1967)
Midnight Lace Aunt Bea (1960)
From the Terrace Martha Eaton (1960)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson Mary Sidney (1960)
Meet Me in St. Louis Mrs. Anna Smith (1959)
Lonelyhearts Florence Shrike (1958)
Schlitz Playhouse Nancy Knox (1957)
General Electric Theater Allie Evans (1955-1957)
Kilometer 99 (1956)
The Ambassador's Daughter Mrs. Cartwright (1956)
Belles on Their Toes Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth (1952)
Cheaper by the Dozen Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth (1950)
If This Be Sin Lady Cathy Brooke (1949)
The Red Pony Alice Tiflin (1949)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Muriel Blandings (1948)
The Senator Was Indiscreet Mrs. Melvin G. Ashton (1947)
Song of the Thin Man Nora Charles (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Judge Margaret Turner (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives Milly Stephenson (1946)
So Goes My Love Jane Budden Maxim (1946)
The Thin Man Goes Home Nora Charles (1944)
Shadow of the Thin Man Nora (1941)
Love Crazy Susan Ireland (1941)
Third Finger, Left Hand Margot Sherwood Merrick (1940)
I Love You Again Kay Wilson (1940)
Another Thin Man Nora (1939)
The Rains Came Lady Edwina Esketh (1939)
Lucky Night Cora Jordan (1939)
Too Hot to Handle Alma Harding (1938)
Test Pilot Ann Thurston Barton (1938)
Man-Proof Mimi Swift (1938)
Double Wedding Margit Agnew (1937)
Parnell Katie (1937)
After the Thin Man Nora (1936)
Libeled Lady Connie Allenbury (1936)
To Mary - with Love Mary Wallace (1936)
The Great Ziegfeld Billie Burke (1936)
Petticoat Fever Irene Campton (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary Linda Stanhope (1936)
Whipsaw Vivian Palmer (1935)
Wings in the Dark Sheila Mason (1935)
Broadway Bill Alice Higgins - aka The Princess (1934)
Evelyn Prentice Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Stamboul Quest Annemarie aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen (1934)
The Thin Man Nora Charles (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama Eleanor (1934)
Men in White Laura Hudson (1934)
The Prizefighter and the Lady Belle (1933)
Night Flight Wife of Brazilian Pilot (1933)
Penthouse Gertie Waxted (1933)
When Ladies Meet Mary Howard (1933)
The Barbarian Diana Standing (1933)
Scarlet River Myrna Loy (1933)
Topaze Coco (1933)
The Animal Kingdom Cecelia (1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu Fah Lo See (1932)
Thirteen Women Ursula Georgi (1932)
Love Me Tonight Countess Valentine (1932)
New Morals for Old Myra (1932)
The Woman in Room 13 Sari Loder (1932)
The Wet Parade Eileen Pinchon (1932)
Vanity Fair Becky Sharp (1932)
Emma Isabelle (1932)
Arrowsmith Joyce Lanyon (1931)
Consolation Marriage Elaine Brandon (1931)
Skyline Paula Lambert (1931)
Rebound Evangeline (Evie) Lawrence (1931)
Transatlantic Kay Graham (1931)
Hush Money Flo Curtis (1931)
A Connecticut Yankee Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion (1931)
Body and Soul Alice Lester (1931)
The Devil to Pay! Mary (1930)
The Naughty Flirt Linda Gregory (1930)
Rogue of the Rio Grande Carmita (1930)
The Truth About Youth Kara aka The Firefly (1930)
Renegades Eleanore (1930)
The Bad Man (1930)
The Jazz Cinderella Mildred Vane (1930)
The Last of the Duanes Lola Bland (1930)
Bride of the Regiment Sophie (1930)
Cock o' the Walk Narita (1930)
Under a Texas Moon Lolita Romero (1930)
Isle of Escape Moira (1930)
Cameo Kirby Lea (1930)
Show of Shows Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers (1929)
Evidence Native Girl (1929)
The Great Divide Manuella (1929)
The Squall Nubi (1929)
The Black Watch Yasmani (1929)
The Desert Song Azuri (1929)
Hardboiled Rose Rose Duhamel (1929)
Fancy Baggage Myrna (1929)
Noah's Ark Dancer / Slave Girl (1928)
The Midnight Taxi Gertie Fairfax (1928)
State Street Sadie Sadie (1928)
Pay as You Enter Yvonne De Russo (1928)
Turn Back the Hours Tiza Torreon (1928)
The Crimson City Isobel (1928)
A Girl in Every Port Jetta - Girl in Singapore (1928)
Beware of Married Men Juanita Sheldon (1928)
If I Were Single Joan Whitley (1927)
Ham and Eggs at the Front Fifi (1927)
The Girl from Chicago Mary Carlton (1927)
The Jazz Singer Chorus Girl (1927)
A Sailor's Sweetheart Claudette Ralston (1927)
The Heart of Maryland Mulatta (1927)
Simple Sis Edith Van (1927)
The Climbers Countess Veya (1927)
Bitter Apples Belinda White (1927)
When a Man Loves Convict Behind Manon (1927)
Finger Prints Vamp (1927)
The Third Degree Bit Part (1926)
Across the Pacific Roma (1926)
Don Juan Mai - Lady in Waiting (1926)
So This Is Paris Lalle's Maid (1926)
Exquisite Sinner Living statue (1926)
The Gilded Highway Inez Quartz (1926)
Why Girls Go Back Home Sally Short (1926)
The Love Toy Bit Part (1926)
The Caveman Maid (1926)
What Price Beauty? Vamp (1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Slave Girl (1925)
Sporting Life Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (1925)
The Wanderer Girl at Baccanal (1925)
Actress

Pretty Ladies Showgirl (1925)
Soundtrack

Belles on Their Toes (1952)
The Red Pony (1949)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Another Thin Man (1939)
Test Pilot (1938)
Man-Proof (1938)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Broadway Bill (1934)
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
When Ladies Meet (1933)
The Barbarian (1933)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Rebound (1931)
The Truth About Youth (1930)
Show of Shows (1929)
Soundtrack

The Squall (1929)
Archive footage

The Movies (2019)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016)
Stars of the Silver Screen (2011)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
American Masters (2009)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
California's Golden Parks (2007)
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Screen Goddesses (2006)
William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005)
Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (2004)
Complicated Women (2003)
Biography (1995-1998)
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997)
American Experience (1996)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994)
Myrna Loy Remembered (1993)
Entertainment Tonight (1993)
MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)
Arena (1991)
The Republic Pictures Story (1991)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)
Moonlighting (1987)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Hosted by Johnny Carson (1987)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
Remember Me (1978)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
The Dick Cavett Show (1971)
Hollywood My Home Town (1965)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963-1964)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955)
Some of the Greatest (1955)
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)
Twenty Years After (1944)
The Miracle of Sound (1940)
Trifles of Importance (1940)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
Northward, Ho! (1940)
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937)
Archive footage

The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937)

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Awards

5 wins.

Did You Know

Trivia

After graduating from high school in 1923, Myrna got a job dancing in the chorus during the prologue for The Ten Commandments at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

You know, the truth was, I wasn't the perfect wife in the movies. I was the wife everyone wanted, but not the quintessential wife. I was someone fun to be around, not the woman in the apron. Now, don't you think that's so much better?