Myrna Loy Trailers
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Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in 14 films together, including five subsequent Thin Man films.
Although Loy was never nominated for a competitive Academy Award, in March 1991 she was presented with an Honorary Academy Award with the inscription "In recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances."
During World War II, Loy served as assistant to the director of military and naval welfare for the Red Cross. She was later appointed a member-at-large of the U.S. Commission to UNESCO. Her acting career by no means ended in the 1940s. She continued to actively pursue stage and television appearances in addition to films in subsequent decades.
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06 August 1926
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death.
24 October 1940
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
04 June 1990
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner.
13 July 1927
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt.
24 May 1961
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
14 January 1928
A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seeing a newly released comedy by Warner Bros.
30 March 1929
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
29 November 1927
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
27 August 1937
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
08 October 1931
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg.
29 November 1925
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
29 May 1940
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America.
11 October 1940
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues.
21 November 1931
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
05 July 1931
Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
07 January 1938
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
09 February 1974
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elevator that is teetering on collapse.
01 March 1926
Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chorus girl.
04 June 1932
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
26 January 1929
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary.
09 March 1986
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the silver screen.
11 September 1930
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
24 December 1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
01 September 1930
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love with Pat Murray, a model in Darrow's dress shop.
04 June 1937
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
15 September 1929
Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner.
10 February 1940
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.
23 May 2007
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing.
09 November 1934
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
04 March 1959
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings.
30 December 1981
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
07 December 1930
El Malo, notorious Mexican bandit, forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the bandit gives a promissory note for to the Mayor.
25 December 1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home.
18 December 1935
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer.
18 August 1932
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
18 December 1930
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay.
10 January 1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props.
30 November 1934
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that.
02 July 2009
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
15 March 1932
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
12 May 1933
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
06 September 1925
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy.
20 March 1936
A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.
16 September 1932
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
13 July 1934
In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater.
31 December 1947
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
10 November 1933
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
28 August 1931
A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.
13 October 1960
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
13 April 1949
The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man.
08 January 1927
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
01 January 1944
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
03 November 1930
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
05 February 1938
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions.
04 May 1934
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
