08/02/1905
Radersburg, Montana, USA:
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.
|
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) |