Myrna Loy Net Worth
Myrna Loy Net Worth is
$8 Million
Myrna Loy Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
At the end of the silent era, Myrna Loy started her career as an exotic, Theda Bara-like femme fatale. Fortunately, she was rescued by the advent of the sound picture, where she was recast in the role of the witty, urbane, professional woman. She is best remembered for her role of Nora Charles opposite William Powell in six "Thin Man" movies (The ... | Full Name | Mina Loy |
| Date Of Birth | August 2, 1905, Helena, Montana, United States |
| Died | December 14, 1993, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Radersburg, Montana, USA |
| Height | 5' 5" (1.65 m) |
| Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
| Education | Harvard-Westlake School, Venice High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Howland H. Sargeant (m. 1951–1960) |
| Parents | Adele Mae Williams, David Franklin Williams |
| Siblings | David Williams |
| Awards | Academy Honorary Award, Kennedy Center Honors |
| Movies | The Thin Man, Manhattan Melodrama, The Best Years of Our Lives, Libeled Lady, I Love You Again, Another Thin Man, Shadow of the Thin Man, Love Crazy, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Great Ziegfeld, Double Wedding, The Thin Man Goes Home, Evelyn Prentice, Song of the Thin Man, The Bachelor ... |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Early in her career, often played sexy, unpredictable party girls |
| 2 | Later in her career, often cast as maternal, heroic characters |
| 3 | Turned-up nose |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | $100,000 |
| A Connecticut Yankee (1931) | $1,500 /week |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | $3 .50 |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on changing the direction of her career in the 1930s] I finally got fired because they ran out of hussies to play. |
| 2 | [on "The Thin Man" series ending] It was the drinking. The characters drank too much, and for a while the public didn't seem to mind all the martinis and all the hangovers, but then, after a while, they did, or at least the studio maintained that was what happened. |
| 3 | [on Joan Crawford] Joan never complained about her difficult children. Christina and Christopher made me glad I didn't have children. |
| 4 | [on Ronald Reagan] I never worked with Ronald Reagan. I'm not happy that he's President. I was willing to give him a chance. But he's destroying everything now I've lived my life for. |
| 5 | [on Joan Crawford, and the book, "Mommie Dearest"] What bothers me is that there were book buyers who bought that book and read it and people who believed it. What perplexes me and makes me profoundly sad was that people wanted to spend their money that way, on such trash, and, worse yet, believed it. The readers who believed it were the ones who did the damage. |
| 6 | [on her character "Nora Charles" from the "Thin Man" films] Nora of "The Thin Man" was different . . . Nora had a gorgeous sense of humor; she appreciated the distinctive grace of her husband's wit. She laughed . . . at him and with him when he was funny. What's more, she laughed at herself. Besides having tolerance, she was a good guy. She was courageous and interested in living and she enjoyed doing all the things she did. You understand, she had a good time, always. |
| 7 | [on Christina Crawford and her book "Mommie Dearest"] She wanted to be Joan Crawford. I think that's the basis of the book she wrote afterward and everything else. I saw what her mind created, the fantasy world she lived in. She envied her mother, grew to hate her, and wanted to destroy her. |
| 8 | [on Christina Crawford when things got so bad with the Chicago production of "Barefoot in the Park" that Loy had to call the director of the London production to intervene] He couldn't do anything with her. Absolutely nothing. She was going to do it her way. It was self-defeating and sad, because the girl had potential. |
| 9 | [on working with Joan Crawford's adopted daughter Christina Crawford in a Chicago production of "Barefoot in the Park"] We didn't have any problems in "Barefoot" until Christina Crawford appeared. I've never known anybody else like her--ever. Her stubbornness was really unbelievable. She would not do a single thing that anybody told her to do. You'd go out there on the stage and you couldn't find her. One thing an actor needs to know is exactly where people are on the stage. Christina completely disregarded her blocking, throwing the rest of us off. |
| 10 | [In 1981, on her friend Joan Crawford] Joan and I approached being movie stars in a different way. She liked to take limos everywhere; she was much "grander", for lack of a better word, and maybe I was much more down to earth, but so what? Joan certainly wasn't the only movie star who liked the champagne and limousine treatment. I can tell you that when you made a friend in Joan you had a friend for life. She never forgot your birthday, and you'd get a congratulatory note from her when good things happened in your life. She cared about people and her friends, no matter what anybody says. I liked her, and I miss her, and I think her daughter's stories are pure bunk. Even if they were true, if ever there was a girl who needed a good whack it was spoiled, horrible Christina [Christina Crawford]. Believe me, there were many times I wanted to smack her myself. |
| 11 | [In 1974] When I was touring in "Don Juan in Hell," we played a college town near New Orleans. Paul [Paul Newman] happened to be there shooting The Drowning Pool (1975), so I went to see him that afternoon. I remember walking down a country road past every kid in town waiting to glimpse Paul Newman. When he saw me he rushed over, threw his arms around me, and kissed me, eliciting a collective swoon from those kids, who were probably wondering, "Who's that lucky old lady?" We went off and talked until they called him back to work. |
| 12 | [on Natacha Rambova] She was absolutely beautiful, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She always wore turbans and long, very stark dresses, usually velvet or brocade of the same golden brown as her eyes. She was breathtaking and I was scared. "I know they call me everything from Messalina to a dope fiend", she disclosed to calm me, "but I really don't eat little dancers for breakfast". |
| 13 | [on Tyrone Power] A lovely gentleman with a great quality of imagination. |
| 14 | [on Montgomery Clift] Monty was a great talent, whose acting I always admired. He had extraordinary instincts. His observations about the script were always astute and correct. He would have made a great director, which eventually he wanted to be. "Would you ever direct yourself?", I once asked him. "Are you kidding", he replied. "As a director, I simply wouldn't put up with all that crap from me". Monty was having problems then. He was full of all kinds of problems, many of them imaginary. |
| 15 | [on Doris Day] I have nothing but the best to say about Doris Day. She was wonderful to me, really lovely. She sent flowers when I started and remained friendly and attentive. As I've said, it's difficult when you start stepping down. You fight so hard to get to the top and then you realize it's time to gracefully give in a little. Doris, who was riding high then, never played the prima dona. I appreciated her attitude enormously. |
| 16 | [on Rex Harrison] Rex Harrison was in a strange kind of mood in Midnight Lace (1960), no doubt because his wife Kay Kendall had died. He had very little time for me or anybody else, as far as I could tell; he did his job and that was it. |
| 17 | [on Liza Minnelli] I love Liza. She is so original. People speak of her in terms of her mother, but she is herself, very definitely. A good, strong, unique person. |
| 18 | [on Burt Reynolds] It's the man's tremendous wit that just keeps coming across. Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves. Spencer Tracy used to say to me after a scene, "Did I ham that one up?" If I said yes, he'd say, "Okay, let's do it again". There's that same honesty in Burt Reynolds. He's a throwback to the old school. |
| 19 | [on William Powell] The later ones [the "Thin Man" pictures] were very bad indeed, but it was always a joy to work with Bill Powell. He was and is a dear friend and, in the early Thin Man films with [director W.S. Van Dyke], we managed to achieve what for those days was an almost pioneering sense of spontaneity. |
| 20 | [on Barbra Streisand] I think Barbra Streisand is a genius, the creativity she has! And I am very impressed with her as a person. Some years ago I was on the Academy Awards broadcast, she came up to me. I was standing in the wings and Barbra walked across the stage to greet me. Very polite, very nice. You don't find many young women who extend that kind of gracious courtesy to an older woman. Audrey Hepburn does. And Barbra. I've not forgotten how charming she was. |
| 21 | I was glamorous because of magicians like George J. Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did. |
| 22 | [on Clark Gable] He happened to be an actor, a damned good one, and nobody knew it--least of all Clark. Oh, he wanted to be an actor, but he always deprecated his ability, pretended it didn't matter. He was a really shy man with a terrible inferiority in there somewhere. Something was missing that kept him from doing the things he could have done. |
| 23 | [Referring to her "perfect wife" typecasting] Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg. |
| 24 | [Challenging MGM bosses in the 1930s] Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase? |
| 25 | [on her screen test for Cobra (1925)] I rushed out of the projection room, ran home and cried for hours. I was really ashamed of myself. It was so awful . . . |
| 26 | [Speaking in the late 1960s] I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. |
| 27 | [on her "Perfect Wife" label, based on her work in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)] It was a role no one could live up to, really. No telling where my career would have gone if they hadn't hung that title on me. Labels limit you, because they limit your possibilities. But that's how they think in Hollywood. |
| 28 | I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas. |
| 29 | Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. |
| 30 | [on her work with William Powell] I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Underwent an abortion prior to her marriage to Arthur Hornblow Jr.. The procedure left her infertile. |
| 2 | If her cameo in The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) is counted, Myrna Loy co-starred with William Powell fourteen times. Besides the six Thin Man films, the others were Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Evelyn Prentice (1934), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Libeled Lady (1936), Double Wedding (1937), I Love You Again (1940) and Love Crazy (1941). |
| 3 | She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). |
| 4 | She died only eight days after her So Goes My Love (1946) co-star Don Ameche and only eighteen days before her The Thin Man (1934) co-star Cesar Romero. |
| 5 | At the Academy Lifetime Tribute to Loy in 1985 Burt Reynolds, who cast her as his mother in The End (1978), reportedly said that he wished he'd been born earlier but didn't think he was a good enough actor to appear opposite her if he had. |
| 6 | Loy has gone on record as considering The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) her favourite film and the homecoming scene with Fredric March her favorite scene. |
| 7 | Was considered for the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945). |
| 8 | Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). |
| 9 | A cast of her hand-print and her signature are in the sidewalk in front of Theater 80, on St. Mark's Place in New York City. |
| 10 | A building at Sony Pictures Studios, formerly MGM Studios, in Culver City, California, is named in her honor. |
| 11 | Was a member of New York's St. Paul's Methodist Church (later known as the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew). |
| 12 | Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999] |
| 13 | Is the subject of the song "Myrna Loy" by Steel Pole Bathtub (this song is different from and predates the song by The Minus 5). |
| 14 | In 1960 she campaigned for John F. Kennedy. Later she did battle with Californian Governor Ronald Reagan over open-housing legislation and for years afterward was a vigorous member of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. |
| 15 | Turned down the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934). Claudette Colbert was given the part and went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance. |
| 16 | Appeared in the first feature film with synchronized sound (Don Juan (1926)) and first feature film with audible dialog (The Jazz Singer (1927)). |
| 17 | Good friend of Princess Marina. |
| 18 | In Italy, she was dubbed at the beginning of the (talking) career either by Tina Lattanzi or Rosina Galli. Later in her career, Lidia Simoneschi was her official Italian voice. She was once dubbed by the talented Giovanna Scotto in So Goes My Love (1946). |
| 19 | Her Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) co-star, Jeanne Crain, died exactly ten years to the day after Myrna. |
| 20 | Subject of the song "Myrna Loy" by The Minus 5. |
| 21 | William Powell's nickname for her was 'Minnie'. |
| 22 | Was supposedly the favorite star of famed outlaw John Dillinger. He came out of hiding to see Manhattan Melodrama (1934), in which she starred, and was gunned down by police upon leaving the theater. |
| 23 | The statue outside Venice High School that bears her likeness is titled 'Inspiration', and has been the target of vandalism and school pranks for decades (Loy mentions in her book that the statue was even decapitated at one point). It is now surrounded by a fence. |
| 24 | Appeared in staged prologues at Grauman's Egyptian theater in Los Angeles, before getting her first role in films. The prologues, staged by Fanchon and Marco, were live shows put on before the feature had begun. Myrna appeared in prologues for The Ten Commandments (1923) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924), among others. |
| 25 | Her profile was the most requested in the 1930s by women to their plastic surgeons. |
| 26 | First Actress to work for the UN (UNESCO). |
| 27 | Her mother, Della Williams, was a talented pianist who encouraged Myrna's interest in the arts. |
| 28 | Born on a cattle ranch. |
| 29 | Outspoken against Adolf Hitler in the War, Myrna appeared on his blacklist. |
| 30 | Made her stage debut in 1916. |
| 31 | Myrna was Co-Chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Committee against discrimination in housing - exposing segregation in federal funded projects. |
| 32 | Moved to Manhattan in 1960, where she lived until her death in 1993. |
| 33 | Attended Venice High School in Los Angeles, where a statue of her stands (on the front lawn). The same school was featured in the original Grease (1978), American History X (1998) and in The Chemical Brothers' and Britney Spears' music videos ("Elektrobank" and "Baby one more time", respectively). |
| 34 | Changing last name from Williams to Loy was suggested by legendary pulp writer Paul Cain (AKA Peter Ruric). |
| 35 | Underwent two mastectomies after being diagnosed with breast cancer twice. |
| 36 | In honor of Myrna Loy, a poem was created called, Montana Women, which was read at the celebration of her 86th birthday. |
| 37 | Myrna Williams made her stage debut at age twelve at Helena's old Marlow Theater in a dance she choreographed, based on "The Blue Bird" from the Rose Dream Operatta. |
| 38 | Her final public appearance was in 1991 when she received her lifetime achievement award during The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991). She was unable to travel to Hollywood to accept the award in person, so the Academy arranged a live satellite link to her Manhattan apartment. Anjelica Huston introduced the film tribute presentation to her, which started with clips from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and ended with a clip from After the Thin Man (1936) When the tribute finished, there was instantaneous rapturous applause and Huston then said, "Here from her apartment in New York is Miss Loy. Congratulations Myrna." Loy appeared live on a large screen from her beautiful New York apartment smiling, with her Honorary Oscar on a side table next to her. She was seated wearing sparkling purple evening wear and watched intently on her own television. She viewed and smiled at close up shots of fellow same-year Honorary Award recipient Sophia Loren and other audience members applauding. There was unusually no standing ovation, instead audience members remained seated during the applause, this was by no means a snub. There was a short silence after the applause, while the camera closed in on Miss Loy. She then looked directly at the camera and simply and said, "You've made me very happy, thank you very much," to yet further loud applause and then she disappeared from the screen once more. |
| 39 | Received a Honorary Academy Award in the same year as Sophia Loren. |
| 40 | At Venice High school, in the middle of a small rose garden, is a larger-than-life-size statue of actress Myrna Loy. And it was made years before Myrna appeared in a single movie. Actually, it isn't a particularly good likeness of Miss Loy. Standing atop a stone pedestal, back arched, the short-haired figure is semi-nude (wearing only a thin gown which leaves little to the imagination), with one arm raised in a dramatic pose. All three statues were modeled by Venice High students, and the trio are meant to depict the "Mental," "Physical" and "Spiritual." According to the bronze plaque on the east side of the pedestal, the statues were erected in 1921, which means that Myrna Loy (then named Myrna Williams) was only 16 years old when she posed for the "Spiritual" statue - long before she became a celebrity. |
| 41 | Her father, at age 21, the youngest man ever elected to the Montana State Legislature, owned a small cattle ranch. |
| 42 | Some of her biggest fans included James Stewart, Winston Churchill, and the Roosevelts. Franklin D. Roosevelt invited to the White House early on in his administration, and she became very friendly with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. |
| 43 | In 1923, she was photographed by Henry Waxman, who showed the pictures to Rudolph Valentino. Impressed with Myrna, Valentino arranged for a screen test for his upcoming film, Cobra (1925). She failed it. |
| 44 | She organized an opposition to the House Unamerican Activities Committee in Hollywood. |
| 45 | Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center in 1988. |
| 46 | In 1918, her father died in the Spanish Flu epidemic, and Myrna, her mom, and brother moved to LA. |
| 47 | In 1936 Myrna was named Queen of the Movies and Clark Gable King in a national poll, winning a crown of tin and purple velvet. in her autobiography, she says that she did not get on with Gable in her earlier films with him. However, in her later films he developed a respect for Loy and they became good friends. |
| 48 | 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. |
| 49 | When her father was travelling by train in early 1905, he went through a small station called 'Myrna' - he eventually named her after that station. |
| 50 | Spent her early years on a ranch and in the town of Helena, Montana, which was also the home of Gary Cooper. |
| 51 | Myrna enrolled at Venice High School -- a school which later named its annual speech and drama awards 'Myrnas'. |
| 52 | A devout Democrat and feminist, she later dismissed her work in the pre-Civil Rights-era movie Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927) as "shameful". |
| 53 | Men-Must-Marry-Myrna Clubs were formed due to her portrayal as The Perfect Wife (The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)). |
| 54 | Loy donned a uniform during the War when she joined the Hollywood Chapter of 'Bundles for Bluejackets' -- helping to run a Naval Auxiliary Canteen and going on fund raising tours. |
| 55 | In 1937, Myrna had a narrow escape when her horse bolted during the filming of The Rains Came (1939) with Tyrone Power; she was nearly killed. |
| 56 | 'Caterina Williams' is sometimes quoted as her real name. |
| 57 | She became a founder member of the American Place Theatre, a non-profit theatre set up to help new writers develop. |
| 58 | One of a handful of great movie stars never nominated for an acting Oscar, she received an honorary Academy Award in 1991. |
| 59 | Hobbies: Sculpting and dancing. |
| 60 | She made her Broadway debut in the 1973 revival of "The Women". |
| 61 | She served as an advisor to the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. |
| 62 | For five years (1949-1954) she served as a film advisor for UNESCO. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Third Degree | 1926 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Across the Pacific | 1926 | Roma | |
| Don Juan | 1926 | Mai - Lady in Waiting | |
| So This Is Paris | 1926 | Lalle's Maid | |
| Exquisite Sinner | 1926 | Living statue | |
| The Gilded Highway | 1926 | Inez Quartz | |
| Why Girls Go Back Home | 1926 | Sally Short | |
| The Love Toy | 1926 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| The Caveman | 1926 | Maid | |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | 1925 | Slave Girl (uncredited) | |
| Sporting Life | 1925 | Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited) | |
| Pretty Ladies | 1925 | Showgirl (uncredited) | |
| The Wanderer | 1925 | Girl at Baccanal (uncredited) | |
| What Price Beauty? | 1925 | Vamp | |
| Love, Sidney | 1982 | TV Series | Vera Lonnigan |
| Summer Solstice | 1981 | TV Movie | Margaret |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | 1980 | Stella Liberti | |
| The End | 1978 | Maureen Lawson | |
| Ants | 1977 | TV Movie | Ethel |
| Airport 1975 | 1974 | Mrs. Devaney | |
| The Elevator | 1974 | TV Movie | Amanda Kenyon |
| Indict and Convict | 1974 | TV Movie | Judge Christine Tayloy |
| Ironside | 1973 | TV Series | Andrea Wollcott |
| The Couple Takes a Wife | 1972 | TV Movie | Barbara's Mother |
| Columbo | 1972 | TV Series | Lizzy Fielding |
| Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate | 1971 | TV Movie | Evelyn Tryon |
| Death Takes a Holiday | 1971 | TV Movie | Selena Chapman |
| The April Fools | 1969 | Grace Greenlaw | |
| The Virginian | 1967 | TV Series | Mrs. Miles |
| Family Affair | 1967 | TV Series | Adele |
| Midnight Lace | 1960 | Aunt Bea | |
| From the Terrace | 1960 | Martha Eaton | |
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | 1960 | TV Series | Mary Sidney |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | 1959 | TV Movie | Mrs. Anna Smith |
| Lonelyhearts | 1958 | Florence Shrike | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | |
| General Electric Theater | 1955-1957 | TV Series | Allie Evans / Maggie Webster / Kate Kennedy |
| The Ambassador's Daughter | 1956 | Mrs. Cartwright | |
| Belles on Their Toes | 1952 | Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth | |
| Cheaper by the Dozen | 1950 | Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth | |
| If This Be Sin | 1949 | Lady Cathy Brooke | |
| The Red Pony | 1949 | Alice Tiflin | |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | Muriel Blandings | |
| The Senator Was Indiscreet | 1947 | Mrs. Ashton (Cameo Appearance) (uncredited) | |
| Song of the Thin Man | 1947 | Nora Charles | |
| The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | 1947 | Judge Margaret Turner | |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | Milly Stephenson | |
| So Goes My Love | 1946 | Jane Budden Maxim | |
| The Thin Man Goes Home | 1945 | Nora Charles | |
| Shadow of the Thin Man | 1941 | Nora Charles | |
| Love Crazy | 1941 | Susan Ireland | |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | 1940 | Margot Sherwood Merrick | |
| I Love You Again | 1940 | Kay Wilson | |
| Another Thin Man | 1939 | Nora Charles | |
| The Rains Came | 1939 | Lady Edwina Esketh | |
| Lucky Night | 1939 | Cora Jordan | |
| Too Hot to Handle | 1938 | Alma Harding | |
| Test Pilot | 1938 | Ann Thurston Barton | |
| Man-Proof | 1938 | Mimi Swift | |
| Double Wedding | 1937 | Margit Agnew | |
| Parnell | 1937 | Katie | |
| After the Thin Man | 1936 | Nora Charles | |
| Libeled Lady | 1936 | Connie Allenbury | |
| To Mary - with Love | 1936 | Mary Wallace | |
| The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Billie Burke | |
| Petticoat Fever | 1936 | Irene Campton | |
| Wife vs. Secretary | 1936 | Linda | |
| Whipsaw | 1935 | Vivian Palmer | |
| Wings in the Dark | 1935 | Sheila Mason | |
| Broadway Bill | 1934 | The Princess | |
| Evelyn Prentice | 1934 | Evelyn Prentice | |
| Stamboul Quest | 1934 | Annemarie, aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen | |
| The Thin Man | 1934 | Nora Charles | |
| Manhattan Melodrama | 1934 | Eleanor | |
| Men in White | 1934 | Laura | |
| The Prizefighter and the Lady | 1933 | Belle | |
| Night Flight | 1933 | Wife of Brazilian Pilot | |
| Penthouse | 1933 | Gertie Waxted | |
| When Ladies Meet | 1933 | Mary | |
| The Barbarian | 1933 | Diana 'Di' Standing | |
| Scarlet River | 1933 | Myrna Loy (uncredited) | |
| Topaze | 1933/I | Coco | |
| The Animal Kingdom | 1932 | Cecelia Henry Collier | |
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | 1932 | Fah Lo See | |
| Thirteen Women | 1932 | Ursula Georgi | |
| Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Countess Valentine | |
| New Morals for Old | 1932 | Myra | |
| The Woman in Room 13 | 1932 | Sari Loder | |
| The Wet Parade | 1932 | Eileen Pinchon | |
| Vanity Fair | 1932 | Becky Sharp | |
| Emma | 1932 | Isabelle | |
| Arrowsmith | 1931 | Mrs. Joyce Lanyon | |
| Consolation Marriage | 1931 | Elaine Brandon | |
| Skyline | 1931 | Paula Lambert | |
| Transatlantic | 1931 | Kay Graham | |
| Rebound | 1931 | Evie Lawrence | |
| Hush Money | 1931 | Flo Curtis | |
| A Connecticut Yankee | 1931 | Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion | |
| Body and Soul | 1931 | Alice Lester | |
| The Naughty Flirt | 1931 | Linda Gregory | |
| The Devil to Pay! | 1930 | Mary Crayle | |
| Rogue of the Rio Grande | 1930 | Carmita | |
| The Truth About Youth | 1930 | Kara | |
| Renegades | 1930 | Eleanore | |
| The Bad Man | 1930 | ||
| The Jazz Cinderella | 1930 | Mildred Vane | |
| The Last of the Duanes | 1930 | Lola Bland | |
| Bride of the Regiment | 1930 | Sophie | |
| Cock o' the Walk | 1930 | Narita | |
| Under a Texas Moon | 1930 | Lolita Romero | |
| Isle of Escape | 1930 | Moira | |
| Cameo Kirby | 1930 | Lea | |
| The Show of Shows | 1929 | Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers | |
| Evidence | 1929 | Native Girl | |
| The Great Divide | 1929 | Manuella | |
| The Squall | 1929 | Nubi | |
| The Black Watch | 1929 | Yasmani | |
| The Desert Song | 1929 | Azuri | |
| Hardboiled Rose | 1929 | Rose Duhamel | |
| Fancy Baggage | 1929 | Myrna | |
| Noah's Ark | 1928 | Dancer / Slave Girl | |
| The Midnight Taxi | 1928 | Gertie Fairfax | |
| State Street Sadie | 1928 | Isobel | |
| Pay as You Enter | 1928 | Yvonne De Russo | |
| The Crimson City | 1928 | Isobel State Street Sadie | |
| Turn Back the Hours | 1928 | Tiza Torreon | |
| A Girl in Every Port | 1928 | Jetta, Girl in Singapore (uncredited) | |
| Beware of Married Men | 1928 | Juanita Sheldon | |
| Ham and Eggs at the Front | 1927 | Fifi | |
| If I Were Single | 1927 | Joan Whitley | |
| The Girl from Chicago | 1927 | Mary Carlton | |
| The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | |
| A Sailor's Sweetheart | 1927 | Claudette Ralston | |
| The Heart of Maryland | 1927 | Mulatta | |
| Simple Sis | 1927 | Edith Van | |
| The Climbers | 1927 | Countess Veya | |
| Bitter Apples | 1927 | Belinda White | |
| When a Man Loves | 1927 | Convict Behind Manon (uncredited) | |
| Finger Prints | 1927 | Vamp |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belles on Their Toes | 1952 | performer: "Love's Old Sweet Song Just a Song at Twilight", "When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose" | |
| The Red Pony | 1949 | performer: "Marche Militaire" 1818, "Shall We Gather at the River?" 1864 - uncredited | |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | performer: "Home on the Range" - uncredited | |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | performer: "Among My Souvenirs" 1927, "Beer Barrel Polka Roll Out the Barrel" 1927 - uncredited | |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | 1940 | "Over the Rainbow" 1939, uncredited / performer: "The Riddle" 1940 - uncredited | |
| Another Thin Man | 1939 | performer: "Adios Muchachos I Get Ideas" 1927 - uncredited | |
| Test Pilot | 1938 | performer: "The Prisoner's Song If I Had the Wings of an Angel" 1924 - uncredited | |
| Man-Proof | 1938 | "On a Sunday Afternoon" 1935, uncredited / performer: "On a Sunday Afternoon" 1935 - uncredited | |
| Wife vs. Secretary | 1936 | performer: "Thank You for a Lovely Evening" 1934 - uncredited | |
| Broadway Bill | 1934 | performer: "Split-Pea Soup and Succotash" - uncredited | |
| Evelyn Prentice | 1934 | performer: "Lullaby Wiegenlied" 1868 - uncredited | |
| The Prizefighter and the Lady | 1933 | performer: "Downstream Drifter" 1933 - uncredited | |
| When Ladies Meet | 1933 | performer: "I Love But Thee Jeg elsker Dig!" 1864 - uncredited | |
| The Barbarian | 1933 | "Love Songs of the Nile" | |
| Love Me Tonight | 1932 | performer: "The Son of a Gun Is Nothing But a Tailor" 1932 - uncredited | |
| Rebound | 1931 | performer: "Same Thing Over Again" 1931, "There's No Use Trying to Give Me the Air" - uncredited | |
| The Truth About Youth | 1930 | performer: "Playing Around" 1930, "I Have to Have You" 1929 - uncredited | |
| The Show of Shows | 1929 | performer: "What's Become of the Floradora Boys?", "Li-Po-Li" 1929 - uncredited | |
| The Squall | 1929 | performer: "Gypsy Charmer" 1929 - uncredited |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show | 2000 | TV Special | Herself (uncredited) |
| The 63rd Annual Academy Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Herself - Honorary Award Recipient (Live from her Manhattan residence) |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1988 | TV Special | Herself - Honoree |
| CBS This Morning | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy | 1985 | TV Movie | Herself - Honoree |
| The Legends of the Screen | 1983 | TV Movie | Herself |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Herself |
| Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' | 1981 | TV Short documentary | Herself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1980 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1980 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler | 1976 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| ABC Late Night | 1974 | TV Series | Herself |
| Day at Night | 1974 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Movie Game | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 42nd Annual Academy Awards | 1970 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Short Films, Art Direction, and Best Director |
| The David Frost Show | 1969 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Omnibus | 1969 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1967 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 32th Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards | 1967 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| The Linkletter Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1961 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| I've Got a Secret | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
| Gala Adlai on Broadway | 1960 | TV Movie | Herself - Performer |
| Celebrity Talent Scouts | 1960 | TV Series | Herself |
| What's My Line? | 1960 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest |
| The George Gobel Show | 1959 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| This Is Your Life | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
| Show-Business at War | 1943 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Verdensberømtheder i København | 1939 | Short | Herself |
| Another Romance of Celluloid | 1938 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention | 1937 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| 20th Century Fox Promotional Film | 1936 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Fashion News | 1930 | Documentary | Herself (1928, 1930) |
| 1925 Studio Tour | 1925 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | 2016 | Documentary | |
| Stars of the Silver Screen | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
| 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | |
| American Masters | 2009 | TV Series documentary | |
| Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Gertie Waxted |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | 2007 | Documentary | Herself |
| William Powell: A True Gentleman | 2005 | Video short | |
| Robert Capa, l'homme qui voulait croire | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Complicated Women | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| Biography | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| That's Entertainment! III | 1994 | Documentary | Diana 'Di' Standing (uncredited) |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
| Myrna Loy Remembered | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| MGM: When the Lion Roars | 1992 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home to | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Moonlighting | 1987 | TV Series | Nora Charles |
| The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Actress - Unidentified 'Thin Man' Film (uncredited) |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary | Nora |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | 1975 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| Hollywood My Home Town | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
| Inside Daisy Clover | 1965 | Herself (uncredited) | |
| The Love Goddesses | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | 1964 | Documentary | Nora Charles |
| Hollywood and the Stars | 1963 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | 1961 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood | 1955 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Some of the Greatest | 1955 | Short | Ming |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | 1951 | Documentary | |
| Twenty Years After | 1944 | Short | |
| The Miracle of Sound | 1940 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Trifles of Importance | 1940 | Short | Herself, film clip (uncredited) |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | 1940 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Northward, Ho! | 1940 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| From the Ends of the Earth | 1939 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 | 1937 | Documentary short | Herself |
| The Romance of Celluloid | 1937 | Short | Margit Agnew |
| Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 | 1937 | Documentary short | Herself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Honorary Award | Academy Awards, USA | In recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a ... More | |
| 1983 | Career Achievement Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | ||
| 1979 | Career Achievement Award | National Board of Review, USA | ||
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6685 Hollywood Blvd. |
Known for movies
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Milly Stephenson
The Thin Man (1934)
as Nora Charles
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
as Billie Burke
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
as Muriel Blandings