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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was an American film, television, and stage actress. As a performer, she was known for her ability to adapt to her screen partner's acting style.
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entertainment · American actress (1905–1993) · dancer · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also Myrna Loy, Myrna Adele Williams, Catharina Myrna Adele Williams, The Queen of Hollywood, Loy
Born 2 August 1905 · Died 14 December 1993 · Q105941
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2026· 5 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,956 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 939, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 4,824 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 939, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,374 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 939, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Myrna Loy : the only good girl in Hollywood / Emily W. Leider
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2022· 1 entry
Amarillo Globe-News: Myrna Loy Clark Smith
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination
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2002· 1 entry
And replaced in 2010 by a bronze duplicate paid for through an alumni-led fundraising campaign
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1993· 2 entries
Died 1993-12-14.
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At Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan during surgery following a long, unspecified illness
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1991· 1 entry
The Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts opened in downtown Helena, not far from Loy's childhood home
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1988).
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1981· 1 entry
Appeared in the television drama Summer Solstice, which was Henry Fonda's last performance
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Career Achievement (1980).
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In Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What You Want
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1978· 1 entry
Appeared in the film The End as the mother of the main character played by Burt Reynolds
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1975· 1 entry
Loy was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent mastectomies to treat the disease
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1974· 1 entry
Had a supporting part in Airport 1975 playing Mrs
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1972· 1 entry
Appeared as the suspect's mother-in-law in an episode of the television series Columbo titled "Étude in Black"
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1967· 3 entries
Was cast in the television series The Virginian, appearing in an episode titled "Lady of the House"
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Appeared on Family Affair in the episode "A Helping Hand" as a woman who takes a job as a housekeeper and cook
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In Barefoot in the Park, and then returned in 1969 in Janus
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1965· 1 entry
Loy won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre
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1960· 2 entries
Finding Richard Nixon to be an unscrupulous man
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Appeared in Midnight Lace and From the Terrace, but was not in another film until 1969 in The April Fools
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1956· 1 entry
Appeared in The Ambassador's Daughter along with John Forsythe and Olivia de Havilland
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1952· 1 entry
Starred in the Cheaper by the Dozen sequel, Belles on Their Toes
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1950· 1 entry
Loy co-starred with Clifton Webb in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), which was a box-office hit, grossing $4
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1947· 1 entry
Loy became one of the founders of the Committee for the First Amendment
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1946· 2 entries
At the chapel on Terminal Island, while Markey was serving in the military
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Played the wife of a returning serviceman Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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1944· 1 entry
With Loy again citing mental cruelty
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1942· 1 entry
Loy divorced her husband Hornblow in Reno, citing "mental cruelty" as the impetus for separating
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1937· 1 entry
And 1938, she was listed in the annual Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars, which was compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the United States for the stars who had generated the most revenue i
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1936· 2 entries
Loy was honored with a block in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre
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In between filming these four successive productions
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1934· 1 entry
Loy appeared in Manhattan Melodrama with Clark Gable and William Powell
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1932· 1 entry
Loy had begun dating producer Arthur Hornblow Jr
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1922· 1 entry
The sculpture group was installed in front of the campus outdoor pool in May 1923, where it stood for decades
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1921· 1 entry
Loy posed for Venice High School sculpture teacher Harry Fielding Winebrenner as "Inspiration"; the full-length figure was central in his allegorical sculpture group Fountain of Education
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1905· 2 entries
In Helena, Montana, the daughter of Adelle Mae (née Johnson) and rancher David Franklin Williams
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Born 1905-08-02.
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1904· 1 entry
One year before Loy was born
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