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Myrna Loy


Myrna Loy

Geburtstag:

08/02/1905

Geburtsort:

Radersburg, Montana, USA:

Biografie:

Myrna Loy (* 2. August 1905 als Catharina Myrna Adele Williams in Radersburg, Montana; † 14. Dezember 1993 in New York) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Mit William Powell bildete sie in 14 Hollywood-Filmen ein populäres Leinwandpaar. 1991 wurde sie für ihr Lebenswerk mit einem Ehrenoscar ausgezeichnet. Sie debütierte 1925 in What Price Beauty und spielte für die nächsten Jahre eine Vielzahl von Nebenrollen. Ihre Karriere litt darunter, dass sie immer wieder als exotische Verführerin, Sirene, Vamp oder alles gleichzeitig eingesetzt wurde. Erst als David O. Selznick ihr 1932 in den Komödien The Animal Kingdom mit Ann Harding und Leslie Howard und Topaze (mit John und Lionel Barrymore) gehaltvolle Nebenrollen gegeben hatte, bekam die Schauspielerin bessere Angebote. Im selben Jahr wechselte sie zu MGM, wo sie 1933 eine Hauptrolle in The Barbarian neben Ramón Novarro hatte. In dem Film war Loy in einer sehr diskreten Nacktszene zu sehen. Später im Jahr spielte sie in When Ladies Meet an der Seite von Ann Harding und Robert Montgomery. Durch die Mitwirkung in Night Flight, der eine Starbesetzung mit Helen Hayes, Clark Gable und den Barrymore-Brüdern aufbot, gewann sie zusätzlich neue Fans. In Manhattan Melodrama, der im Frühjahr 1934 in den Verleih kam, war sie das erste Mal neben William Powell und Clark Gable zu sehen, mit denen sie später jeweils noch weitere Filme drehte. Berühmt wurde der Film, weil der Gangster John Dillinger, dessen Lieblingsschauspielerin Myrna Loy angeblich war, beim Besuch einer Vorstellung dieses Films vom FBI erschossen wurde. Später im Jahr hatte Loy mit Der dünne Mann, der Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Kriminalromans von Dashiell Hammett, ihren Durchbruch. Das Zusammenspiel von Powell und Loy machte aus der günstig produzierten Verfilmung einen Kassenschlager und machte aus Powell und Loy ein populäres Leinwandpaar. Sie spielten im selben Jahr noch in Evelyn Prentiss zusammen, es war ihr einziger gemeinsamer Auftritt in einem dramatischen Film. Im Jahr darauf trat Loy in dem Film Wings In The Dark das erste Mal neben Cary Grant auf. Ihre besten Rollen hatte sie an der Seite von Jean Harlow in Seine Sekretärin aus dem Jahr 1935 und Libeled Lady von 1936. Ausflüge in dramatische Rollen lehnten die Fans meist ab. Ihr größter Flop wurde daher auch die Mitwirkung in Parnell von 1937, der fiktionalen Schilderung der Beziehung zwischen Katharine O’Shea, gespielt von Loy, und dem irischen Nationalistenführer Charles Stewart Parnell, der von Clark Gable verkörpert wurde. Nach dem Krieg hatte sie einige ihrer besten Rollen und Die besten Jahre unseres Lebens wurde zu einem ihrer bekanntesten Auftritte. Neben Cary Grant spielte sie 1947 in Nur meiner Frau zuliebe sowie in So einfach ist die Liebe nicht, in dem auch Shirley Temple mitwirkte. Ihre Karriere verebbte mit dem Beginn der neuen Dekade und Myrna Loy übernahm zunehmend Nebenrollen an der Seite von bekannten Stars. 1973 debütierte sie am Broadway mit The Women. 1983 erhielt sie den Career Achievement Award der Los Angeles Film Critics Association. 1987 erschien ihre Autobiographie Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming. Myrna Loy, die nie für einen Oscar nominiert wurde, erhielt auf der Oscarverleihung 1991 den Ehrenoscar für ihr Lebenswerk.



Credits

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
as Gertie Waxted (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005)
as
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)
as (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Summer Solstice (1981)
as Margaret
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
as Stella Liberti
The End (1978)
as Maureen Lawson
It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)
as Ethel
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Airport 1975 (1974)
as Mrs. Devaney
The Elevator (1974)
as Amanda Kenyon
Indict and Convict (1974)
as Judge Christine Tayloy
The Couple Takes a Wife (1972)
as Barbara's Mother
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Evelyn Tryon
Death Takes a Holiday (1971)
as Selena Chapman
The April Fools (1969)
as Grace Greenlaw
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Nora Charles (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight Lace (1960)
as Aunt Bea
From the Terrace (1960)
as Martha Eaton
Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)
as Anna Smith
Lonelyhearts (1959)
as Florence Shrike
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
as Mrs. Cartwright
Belles on Their Toes (1952)
as Lillian Gilbreth
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
as Lillian Gilbreth
That Dangerous Age (1949)
as Lady Cathy Brooke
The Red Pony (1949)
as Alice Tiflin
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
as Muriel Blandings
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
as Mrs. Ashton (uncredited)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
as Judge Margaret Turner
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
as Nora Charles
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Milly Stephenson
So Goes My Love (1946)
as Jane Budden Maxim
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Nora Charles
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
as Nora Charles
Love Crazy (1941)
as Susan Ireland
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
as Margot Sherwood Merrick
I Love You Again (1940)
as Kay Wilson
Trifles of Importance (1940)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
as Self
Northward, Ho! (1940)
as Herself
Another Thin Man (1939)
as Nora Charles
The Rains Came (1939)
as Lady Edwina Esketh
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Lucky Night (1939)
as Cora Jordan
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
as Alma Harding
Test Pilot (1938)
as Ann "Thursday" Barton
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
as Self (uncredited)
Man-Proof (1938)
as Mimi Swift
Double Wedding (1937)
as Margit Agnew
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self (archive footage)
Parnell (1937)
as Katie O'Shea
After the Thin Man (1936)
as Nora Charles
Libeled Lady (1936)
as Constance 'Connie' Allenbury
To Mary - with Love (1936)
as Mary Wallace
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
as Billie Burke
Petticoat Fever (1936)
as Irene Campton
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
as Linda Stanhope
Whipsaw (1935)
as Vivian Palmer
Wings in the Dark (1935)
as Sheila Mason
Broadway Bill (1934)
as Alice 'Princess' Higgins
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
as Evelyn Prentice
Stamboul Quest (1934)
as Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen
The Thin Man (1934)
as Nora Charles
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
as Eleanor Packer
Men in White (1934)
as Laura Hudson
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
as Belle Mercer
Night Flight (1933)
as Wife of Brazilian Pilot
Penthouse (1933)
as Gertie Waxted
When Ladies Meet (1933)
as Mary
The Barbarian (1933)
as Diana 'Di' Standing
Scarlet River (1933)
as Herself (uncredited)
Topaze (1933)
as Coco
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
as Cecelia Henry Collier
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
as Fah Lo See
Thirteen Women (1932)
as Ursula Georgi
Love Me Tonight (1932)
as Countess Valentine
New Morals for Old (1932)
as Myra
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
as Sari Loder
The Wet Parade (1932)
as Eileen Pinchon
Vanity Fair (1932)
as Becky Sharp
Emma (1932)
as Isabelle
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Joyce Lanyon
Consolation Marriage (1931)
as Elaine Brandon
Skyline (1931)
as Paula Lambert
Rebound (1931)
as Evie Lawrence
Transatlantic (1931)
as Kay Graham
Hush Money (1931)
as Flo Curtis
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
as Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion
Body and Soul (1931)
as Alice Lester
The Naughty Flirt (1931)
as Linda Gregory
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
as Mary Crayle
Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
as Carmita
The Truth About Youth (1930)
as Kara
Renegades (1930)
as Eleanore
The Bad Man (1930)
as (uncredited)
The Jazz Cinderella (1930)
as Mildred Vane
The Last of the Duanes (1930)
as Lola Bland
Bride of the Regiment (1930)
as Sophie
Cock o' the Walk (1930)
as Narita
Under a Texas Moon (1930)
as Lolita Romero
Isle of Escape (1930)
as Moira
Cameo Kirby (1930)
as Lea
Evidence (1929)
as Native Girl
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers
The Great Divide (1929)
as Manuella
The Black Watch (1929)
as Yasmani
The Squall (1929)
as Nubi
The Desert Song (1929)
as Azuri
Hardboiled Rose (1929)
as Rose Duhamel
Fancy Baggage (1929)
as Myrna
Noah's Ark (1928)
as Showgirl / Slave Girl
The Midnight Taxi (1928)
as Gertie Fairfax
State Street Sadie (1928)
as Sadie
Pay as You Enter (1928)
as Yvonne De Russo
The Crimson City (1928)
as Isobel
Turn Back the Hours (1928)
as Tiza Torreon
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
as Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited)
What Price Beauty? (1928)
as Vamp
Beware of Married Men (1928)
as Juanita Sheldon
If I Were Single (1927)
as Joan Whitley
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
as Fifi
The Girl from Chicago (1927)
as Mary Carlton
The Jazz Singer (1927)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
as Claudette Ralston
When a Man Loves (1927)
as Convict Behind Manon (uncredited)
The Heart of Maryland (1927)
as Mulatta
Simple Sis (1927)
as
The Climbers (1927)
as Countess Veya
Bitter Apples (1927)
as Belinda White
Finger Prints (1927)
as Vamp
The Third Degree (1926)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Across the Pacific (1926)
as Roma
Don Juan (1926)
as Mai - Lady in Waiting
So This Is Paris (1926)
as Lalle's Maid (uncredited)
The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
as Living Statue
The Gilded Highway (1926)
as Inez Quartz
Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
as Sally Short
The Love Toy (1926)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
The Cave Man (1926)
as Maid
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Slave Girl (uncredited)
Sporting Life (1925)
as Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)
Pretty Ladies (1925)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
The Wanderer (1925)
as Girl at Baccanal (uncredited)
1925 Studio Tour (1925)
as Self (uncredited)