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Myrna Loy was an American film, television and stage actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934).
Birth Name
Myrna Adele Williams
Born
Wednesday, 02 August 1905
Died
Tuesday, 14 December 1993
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Movies | Self | 2019 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Stars of the Silver Screen | Self | 2011 |
| These Amazing Shadows | Milly Stephenson | 2011 |
| 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 2009 |
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Gertie Waxted / Gertie Waxted (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| William Powell: A True Gentleman | (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| California's Golden Parks | Alma Harding | 2002 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Movies | Self | 2019 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Stars of the Silver Screen | Self | 2011 |
| These Amazing Shadows | Milly Stephenson | 2011 |
| 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | (archive footage) / Self (archive footage) | 2009 |
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Gertie Waxted / Gertie Waxted (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| William Powell: A True Gentleman | (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| California's Golden Parks | Alma Harding | 2002 |
| Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream | Self | 1998 |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Self | 1997 |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995 |
| That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) / Diana 'Di' Standing | 1994 |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 1994 |
| Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell | Herself | 1993 |
| The 63rd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Winner | 1991 |
| The Republic Pictures Story | Alice Tiflin | 1991 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | Self - Honoree | 1988 |
| American Experience | Self | 1988 |
| American Masters | (archive footage) | 1986 |
| The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Herself (archive footage) / Self | 1986 |
| Moonlighting | Nora Charles | 1985 |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 |
| Summer Solstice | Margaret | 1981 |
| Love, Sidney | Vera Lonnigan | 1981 |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | Stella Liberti | 1980 |
| The End | Maureen Lawson | 1978 |
| Ants! | Ethel | 1977 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | Nora / (archive footage) | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Airport 1975 | Mrs. Devaney | 1974 |
| The Elevator | Amanda Kenyon | 1974 |
| The Couple Takes a Wife | Barbara's Mother | 1972 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate | Evelyn Tryon | 1971 |
| Death Takes a Holiday | Selena Chapman | 1971 |
| Columbo | Lizzy Fielding | 1971 |
| The David Frost Show | Self - Guest | 1969 |
| The April Fools | Grace Greenlaw | 1969 |
| Ironside | Andrea Wollcott | 1967 |
| The Joey Bishop Show | Self - Guest | 1967 |
| Family Affair | Adele | 1966 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
| Inside Daisy Clover | Self | 1965 |
| The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Nora Charles (archive footage) / Nora Charles | 1964 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self / Carmita | 1963 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Herself - Guest | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Mrs. Miles | 1962 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Herself - Guest / Herself - Actress | 1961 |
| Midnight Lace | Aunt Bea | 1960 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| From the Terrace | Martha Eaton | 1960 |
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Mary Sidney | 1959 |
| Lonelyhearts | Florence Shrike | 1959 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar | Herself - Guest | 1957 |
| The Ambassador's Daughter | Mrs. Cartwright | 1956 |
| The George Gobel Show | Herself - Guest | 1954 |
| General Electric Theater | Allie Evans / Kate Kennedy / Maggie Webster | 1953 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| Belles on Their Toes | Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth / Lillian Gilbreth | 1952 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Nancy Knox | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| Cheaper by the Dozen | Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth / Lillian Gilbreth | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Herself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| If This Be Sin | Lady Cathy Brooke | 1949 |
| The Red Pony | Alice Tiflin | 1949 |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | Herself | 1948 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self - singer | 1948 |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Muriel Blandings | 1948 |
| The Senator Was Indiscreet | Mrs. Melvin G. Ashton | 1947 |
| The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Judge Margaret Turner | 1947 |
| Song of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 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 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943 |
| Shadow of the Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1941 |
| Love Crazy | Susan Ireland | 1941 |
| The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940 |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | Margot Sherwood Merrick | 1940 |
| I Love You Again | Kay Wilson | 1940 |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940 |
| Northward, Ho! | Herself / Self | 1940 |
| Another Thin Man | Nora Charles / Nora | 1939 |
| The Rains Came | Lady Edwina Esketh | 1939 |
| From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939 |
| Lucky Night | Cora Jordan | 1939 |
| Too Hot to Handle | Alma Harding | 1938 |
| Test Pilot | Ann Thurston Barton / Ann "Thursday" Barton | 1938 |
| Another Romance of Celluloid | Self | 1938 |
| Man-Proof | Mimi Swift | 1938 |
| Double Wedding | Margit Agnew | 1937 |
| The Romance of Celluloid | Margit Agnew / Self (archive footage) | 1937 |
| Parnell | Katie / Katie O'Shea | 1937 |
| After the Thin Man | Nora Charles / Nora | 1936 |
| Libeled Lady | Connie Allenbury / Constance '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 / Alice 'Princess' Higgins | 1934 |
| Evelyn Prentice | Evelyn Prentice | 1934 |
| Stamboul Quest | Annemarie aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen / Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen | 1934 |
| The Thin Man | Nora Charles | 1934 |
| Manhattan Melodrama | Eleanor / Eleanor Packer | 1934 |
| Men in White | Laura Hudson | 1934 |
| The Prizefighter and the Lady | Belle / Belle Mercer | 1933 |
| Night Flight | Wife of Brazilian Pilot | 1933 |
| Penthouse | Gertie Waxted | 1933 |
| When Ladies Meet | Mary Howard / Mary | 1933 |
| The Barbarian | Diana Standing / Diana 'Di' 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 / Countess Isabelle 'Izzy' Smith Marlin | 1932 |
| Arrowsmith | Mrs. Joyce Lanyon / Joyce Lanyon | 1931 |
| Consolation Marriage | Elaine Brandon | 1931 |
| Skyline | Paula Lambert | 1931 |
| Rebound | Evangeline (Evie) Lawrence / 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 / Mary Crayle | 1930 |
| The Naughty Flirt | Linda Gregory | 1930 |
| Rogue of the Rio Grande | Carmita | 1930 |
| The Truth About Youth | Kara aka The Firefly / Kara | 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 |
| Evidence | Native Girl | 1929 |
| Show of Shows | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | 1929 |
| The Great Divide | Manuella | 1929 |
| The Black Watch | Yasmani | 1929 |
| The Squall | Nubi | 1929 |
| The Desert Song | Azuri | 1929 |
| Hardboiled Rose | Rose Duhamel | 1929 |
| Fancy Baggage | Myrna | 1929 |
| Fashion News | Self (1928, 1930) | 1928 |
| Noah's Ark | Slave Girl / Dancer / Showgirl | 1928 |
| The Midnight Taxi | Gertie Fairfax | 1928 |
| State Street Sadie | Sadie | 1928 |
| Pay as You Enter | Yvonne De Russo | 1928 |
| The Crimson City | Isobel | 1928 |
| Turn Back the Hours | Tiza Torreon | 1928 |
| A Girl in Every Port | Jetta - Girl in Singapore | 1928 |
| The Jazz Singer | Chorus Girl | 1928 |
| What Price Beauty? | Vamp | 1928 |
| Beware of Married Men | Juanita Sheldon | 1928 |
| If I Were Single | Joan Whitley | 1927 |
| A Sailor's Sweetheart | Claudette Ralston | 1927 |
| The Heart of Maryland | Mulatta | 1921 |
| The Heart of Maryland | Mulatta | 1927 |
| Bitter Apples | Belinda White | 1927 |
| When a Man Loves | Convict Behind Manon | 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 | 1926 | |
| The Gilded Highway | Inez Quartz | 1926 |
| Why Girls Go Back Home | Sally Short | 1926 |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Slave Girl | 1925 |
| Sporting Life | Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright | 1925 |
| Pretty Ladies | Showgirl | 1925 |
| 1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925 |
