Myrna Loy (76 page)

separations

social life

staff at residence

trips

wedding

World War II.

See also

Hornblow, John Terry

Hornblow, Arthur Jr.—marriages: Leonora “Bubbles” Schinasi Morris

Loy.

See also

Crosby, Juliette; Hornblow, Arthur Jr.-Loy relationship

Hornblow, Arthur Jr.—son.

See

Hornblow, John Terry

Hornblow, Arthur Sr.: California visit

death (1942)

and Fairbanks Sr.

Loy and

New York Herald

Paris correspondent

son Herbert

wife Nora

World War II

Hornblow, John Terry

children

divorce

father’s constant faultfinding

Loy holidays with

Loy memorial and

Loy’s bequeathals

at Loy’s stage performance

photo with Loy

on Sargeant

wife Doris

Horne, Lena

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Howard, Leslie

Howard, Sidney

Howard, William K.

Howe, James Wong

Hoyt, Harry O.

Hudson, Rock

Hughes, Howard

Hughes, Rupert

Hughes, Shirley

Humphrey, Hubert

Hunt, Marsha

Hunter, Kim

Hunter, Ross

Hurlock, Madeline

Hurn, Philip

Hurrell, George

The Hurricane

Hussey, Ruth

Huston, Angelica

Huston, John

Huston, Walter

Hutton, Betty

Hyman, Bernie

ICM Agency

“If Anything Is Done” (Stein)

If This Be Sin

I Love You Again

income, Loy.

See

Loy, Myrna—income and finances

India,

The Rains Came

Indian Why Stories

(Linderman)

infidelities, sexual.

See

sexual infidelities

Infidelity

Ink Spots

In Old Arizona

internationalism: League of Nations

Loy.

See also

United Nations

Intolerance

Irene

It Happened One Night

It’s A Wonderful Life

I Wanted Wings

Jackson, Anne

Jannings, Emil

Japan: Pearl Harbor invasion

Sino-Japanese war

The Jazz Singer

Jews: anti-communist era

Crossfire

and

Hornblows

Nazi era

jobs.

See

Loy, Myrna—jobs

Johann, Zita

Johnson, John and Isabella (Loy grandparents)

Johnson, Lady Bird

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Van

Jolson, Al

Josephson, Julien

Julian Petroleum scandal (1920s)

June, Ray

Justice Department

Just Tell Me What You Want

Kael, Pauline

Kantor, MacKinlay

Karloff, Boris

Kaufman, George S.

Kaye, Danny

Kazan, Elia

Kazan, Lainie

Kellerman, Annette

Kelly, Gene

Kennedy, Jackie

Kennedy, John F. (JFK)

Kennedy, Senator Ted

Kennedy Center tribute

Kern, Jerome

Kertesz, Mihaly/Michael Curtiz

Keyes, Evelyn

Kilty, James

King, Alan

King, Carlotta

King of Hollywood, Gable

Kingsley, Sidney

Kirk, Phyllis

Kirkwood, James

Knopf

Koenig, William

Korda, Alexander

Korean War

Kosloff, Theodore

Kotsilibas-Davis, James.

See also Being and Becoming

(Loy autobiography with Kotsilibas-Davis)

Kozel, George

Krasna, Norman

Kreuger, Miles

Kurnitz, Harry

La Cava, Gregory

Ladd, Alan

Ladies Man

Ladies of the Corridor

(D. Parker)

Lady Be Good

Lady Lawyer

Laemmle, Carl

LaGuardia, Mayor Fiorello

Lake, Veronica

Lamarr, Hedy

Lambert, Gavin

Lamour, Dorothy

Lancaster, Burt

Lanchester, Elsa

Landi, Elissa

Landis, Carole

Lang, Fritz

Langella, Frank

Lanier, Sidney

Lantz, Robert

Lantz, Sherlee

Larson, Jack

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

“The Last Time I Saw Paris”

Laughton, Charles

Laurie, Joe Jr.

Lawford, Peter

Lawrence, Vincent

Lawson, John Howard

League of Nations

Lean, David

Lederer, Charles

Le Gallienne, Richard

Legendary Ladies of the Movies series

Legion of Decency

Lehmann, Lotte

Leisen, Mitchell

Lemmon, Jack

Leonard, Robert Z.

Lesser, Annemarie

The Letter

Levant, Oscar

Levene, Sam

Lewis, Diana “Mousie”

Lewis, Sinclair

Libeled Lady

Lie, Trygve

Life Is a Banquet

(R. Russell)

Life

magazine: Harlow cover

Loy in

Don Juan

Loy interviewed by Kotsilibas-Davis

Sherwood as editor

Lindbergh, Charles

Linderman, Frank

Linzer, Estelle

A Lion in Winter

Little Women

Litvak, Anatole

Livesey, Roger

Loew, Arthur

Loew, Marcus

Loew’s, Inc., MGM parent company

Lombard, Carole: death (1942)

Embassy Club dinner

funeral

Gable marriage

on marriage to movie star

My Man Godfrey

politics

Powell marriage

To Be or Not to Be

World War II

London, Loy trip

London Daily Mirror

Long Beach earthquake (1933)

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Lonsdale, Frederick

Look After Lulu

Loomis, Margaret

Loos, Anita

Lorraine, Lillian

Los Angeles: Loy’s father’s will

Loy staying near mother in hospital

Loy’s youth

population (1920–1930)

World War II.

See also

Loy, Myrna—residences; movie industry

Los Angeles Evening Herald Express:

Loy at hospital

Powell recovery

Los Angeles Examiner:

Loy in

The Animal Kingdom

“Myrna Loy Abrogates Contract”

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

, Venice High School sculpture photo

Los Angeles Herald Express:

Loy in

The Great Ziegfeld

Loy marriage proposals

Los Angeles Record, The Mask of Fu Manchu

Los Angeles Times: The Black Watch

Douglas as “parlor pink”

Libeled Lady

Loy break with MGM

Loy-Hornblow relationship

Loy in

Across the Pacific

Loy in

Don Juan in Hell

Loy signed by Warner Bros.

Loy’s looks

Loy’s Red Cross work

Loy’s tough-girl parts

Loy-Wyler rapport

“Myrna Loy Back on Lot at Old Pay”

Myron Selznick funeral

Venice High School sculpture photo

What Price Beauty?

Loudon, Dorothy

Love, Montagu

Love Crazy

The Loved One

(Waugh)

Love Me Tonight

Lowe, Edmund

Lowell, Robert

Loy, Mina

Loy, Myrna—acting style

celebrated

collaborative

comedy

honest

naturalness

screen test

talkie transition

underplaying

voice and diction.

See also

Loy, Myrna—stage acting; Loy, Myrna—typecasting

Loy, Myrna—agents: Lew Wasserman

MCA

Mimi Weber

Minna Wallis

Myron Selznick/Selznick-Joyce Agency/Leland Hayward

Robert Lantz

William Morris agency

Loy, Myrna—appearance: aging

Allan portrait

American

Asian

casual preference

childhood and youth

ears

freckles

Hurrell portrait

movie star image

nose

red hair

sculpture

Waxman portraits.

See also

Loy, Myrna—typecasting

Loy, Myrna—assistants and caregivers

Theresa Penn.

See also

Rosson, Leone

Loy, Myrna—aunt LuLu Belle Wilder

Beverly Hills home

California move

county treasurer in Montana

daughter Laura Belle

death (1953)

Delmas Terrace house

Hornblow and

Loy supporting

Loy, Myrna—autobiography.

See Being and Becoming

Loy, Myrna—birth

Loy, Myrna—brother David

art studies and jobs

Beverly Hills residence

death (1983)

Delmas Terrace house

father’s will

grade school

Hertz and

high school graduation

Hornblow and

Hughes Aircraft job

Loy-Hornblow wedding

Loy’s affection for

Loy’s New York residences and

Loy supporting

Montana ranch share

mother’s death

photos

San Fernando Valley

Shirley Hughes dating

wife Lynn

Loy, Myrna—childhood and youth

ambition to become a nun

appearance

birth (1905)

Central Elementary School

dance classes

family flu epidemic

after father’s death

Montana classes

movie going

Ocean Park school

performing

photos

politics

sculpture

trips

Venice Union Polytechnic High

Westlake School for Girls.

See also

Loy, Myrna—family; Montana

Loy, Myrna—family

aunt Nettie Williams Qualls

cousin Laura Belle Wilder

Loy as godmother to friends’ children

treasures

uncle Elmer Williams.

See also

Loy, Myrna—aunt LuLu Belle Wilder; Loy, Myrna—brother David; Loy, Myrna—father David; Loy, Myrna—grandparents; Loy, Myrna—marriages; Loy, Myrna—mother (Della Mae Johnson Williams)

Loy, Myrna—father David: and California

and dance

flu epidemic and death (1918)

grave

Helena

Loy’s anger toward

Loy’s financial management like

marriage

Montana ranch

photo

Republican Party

siblings

spending

will

World War I enlistment

Loy, Myrna—friends

Boatwright

Clift

Crawford

Garland

godmother to children of

Grant

Handmans

Hornblow’s treatment of

Shirley Hughes

Lantzes

Estelle Linzer

McDowall

Rosalind Russell.

See also

Black, Betty Berger; Hornblow, John Terry; Loy, Myrna—love life; Loy, Myrna—Powell screen partnership and friendship; MacFarlane, Louella Bamberger; Taylor, Natalie Visart

Loy, Myrna—grandparents: Johnson

Williams

Loy, Myrna—health

abortion

appendicitis

death (1993)

Dr. Pope

Dr. Winer

flu epidemic (1918)

marital troubles affecting

MGM attitude

operations

overwork and exhaustion

psychotherapy

sterility

Loy, Myrna—honors

Academy

American Place Theatre

eightieth birthday

grave

Kennedy Center

memorial

Myrna Loy Center (Helena)

Venice High School statue “Inspiration” (1922)

Loy, Myrna—income and finances: aunt supported by

brother supported by

Depression

executrix of estate

Hertz marriage

Hornblow divorce

Hornblow marriage

Markey marriage

MGM contract

mother supported by

parental support

pay from early jobs

pay from stage acting

Rosson help with

Warner Bros. contract

will.

See also

Loy, Myrna—jobs; Loy, Myrna—movie pay

Loy, Myrna—jobs

David Horsley laboratories

Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre

high school

Red Cross

television.

See also

dance jobs; Loy, Myrna—income and finances; Loy, Myrna—movies

Loy, Myrna—love life

Gable attempt

Leslie Howard attempt

Johnny Brown

Kozel

Markey

after marriages

Norton

Novarro rumors

Sargeant

Schildkraut attempt

Tracy attempt.

See also

Hornblow, Arthur Jr.-Loy relationship; Loy, Myrna—marriages

Loy, Myrna—marriages

anger in

divorces

Hertz

Hornblow

Markey

proposals from fans

Sargeant

Loy, Myrna—mother (Della Mae Johnson Williams): Beverly Hills residence

birth (1880)

California move

California visits

death (1966)

Delmas Terrace house