Myrna Loy (78 page)

Coward friend

Lantz representing

Loy friend/surrogate son

Loy memorial

McGill, Barney

McGuinness, James K.

McGuire, William Anthony

Mclntyre, Bob

McLaglen, Victor

Medlinski, Harvey

Meet Me in St. Louis

Memphis Belle

Mendl, Lady. See De Wolfe, Elsie

Menjou, Adolphe

Menninger, Karl

Men in White

Meredith, Burgess

Meredyth, Bess

Merman, Ethel

“message pictures,”

MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

Ben-Hur

Berman

Boom Town

cameramen

Camille

Chasman

cost cutting

Crawford

Denham Studio

Depression

Dinner at Eight

directors

Double Wedding

Douglas

downturn (1930s)

Dunne

Emma

Escapade

The Exquisite Sinner

Fitzgerald

Garbo

Garland

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Good Earth

The Great Ziegfeld

“happy pictures about happy people”

Harlow contract bought by

Hepburn

Hornblow

I Love You Again

Infidelity

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

leadership changes

Libeled Lady

Loew’s, Inc. as parent company

Love Crazy

Loy contract

Loy grievances and break with

after Loy-Hornblow divorce

Loy lunch with Kotsilibas-Davis

Loy pay

Loy-Powell divorce comedies

Loy release from

Escapade

Loy seeking job with

Loy strike

Loy swap to 20th Century–Fox

Loy typecasting

Lucky Night

Manhattan Melodrama

Man-Proof

Marie Antoinette

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Meet Me in St. Louis

“More Stars Than There Are in Heaven”

movie actors in uniform

Mrs. Miniver

Nagel signed with

and Nazi Germany

Night Flight

Parnell

Penthouse

The Philadelphia Story

Powell pay

Pretty Ladies

and private lives of stars

The Prizefighter and the Lady

producers’ power

profits

publicity machine

Rainer

Rapf

Reckless

Rendezvous

Romeo and Juliet

Saratoga

Schary

Sea of Grass

The Secret Six

Selznick

sick days

“specials” to be “road-showed”

Stamboul Quest

stars coddled and kept on a short leash

stars’ images

talkie transition

Test Pilot

after Thalberg’s death

Too Hot to Handle

Tracy

20th Century–Fox supplanting

Warner Bros, compared

Whipsaw

Wife vs. Secretary. See also

Dressler, Marie; Gable, Clark; Loy, Myrna—movies; Mannix, Eddie; Mayer, Louis B.; Powell, William; Shearer, Norma; Stromberg, Hunt; Thalberg, Irving;

The Thin Man

series; Van Dyke, W. S. (“Woody”)

Midnight

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Lace

Midnight Taxi

Miles, Peter

Milestone, Lewis

Miljan, John

Milland, Ray

Miller, Patsy Ruth

Milner, Victor

Miner, Jan

miscegenation, censorship vs.

Mississippi

Miss Lonelyhearts

movie

Miss Lonelyhearts

(West)

Mitchum, Robert

Modern Times

Mohr, Hal

Mommie Dearest

(C. Crawford)

Montalban, Ricardo

Montana: Brother Van preacher

buffalo

Cooper

crime

Crow Creek Valley ranch

Loy and Della trip (1940)

Loy with Kotsilibas-Davis

Mike Mansfield

Native Americans

Radersburg.

See also

Helena

Montgomery, Robert: Loy co-star

Loy-Markey wedding

Night Flight

politics,

Rosalind Russell parts with

Screen Actors Guild

on Thalberg

When Ladies Meet

World War II armed forces

Moore, Colleen

Moorehead, Alan

Moran, Polly

Mordden, Ethan

Morgan, Frank

Morley, Karen

Morris, Wayne

Morris Hornblow, Leonora “Bubbles” Schinasi

Morrison, Adrienne

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservations of American Ideals

Motion Picture Almanac

Motion Picture Artists Committee to Aid Republican Spain

Motion Picture Association of America, film rating system

Motion Picture Democratic Committee

Motion Picture Herald:

box-office drawing power

Captain’s Courageous

Motion Picture

magazine: on Loy-Hornblow marriage

What Price Beauty?

“Who is she?”

Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association

movie industry: aging actors

and communists

control over stars

David Horsley laboratories

Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre

“message pictures”

naturalness trend

politics

post-World War I

silent era

talkie transition

women

World War II.

See also

censorship; Columbia Pictures; Goldwyn productions; Loy, Myrna—movie studios; Loy, Myrna—social life; MGM; movie theaters; Paramount; RKO; sound in movies; top box-office movies; typecasting; Universal Studios; Warner Bros.

movie theaters: closing (1930s)

Loy’s childhood

studio ownership

talkie transition

White House.

See also

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre

Movietone News, Fox

Movie Weekly

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Mrs. Miniver

Mundy, Talbot

Muni, Paul

Murnau, F. W.

Murray, Jan

Murrow, Edward R.

Muse, Clarence

My Man Godfrey

Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming. See Being and Becoming

(Loy autobiography with Kotsilibas-Davis)

Myrna Loy Center, Helena

Nagel, Conrad

Naldi, Nita

The Nation, The Best Years of Our Lives

National Board of Review,

Topaze

as Best Film (1933)

National Commission for UNESCO

National Committee against Discrimination in Housing

National Recovery Act

National Velvet

Natwick, Mildred

Navy, U.S.: Bundles for Bluejackets

Markey

Morris

movie stars in

Navy Relief Show

Nazis/Hitler: Anschluss (1938)

Chaplin spoof

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Czechoslovakia invaded by

and Gable

Hollywood and

Jews during

Loy and

Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)

Paris invaded by

Poland invaded by

Rainer as refugee from

Schary movie vs.

and Schmeling defeat

To Be or Not to Be

vs.

See also

World War II

Negri, Pola

Neiman, Private First Class Irving Gaynor

Neptune’s Daughter

Network

New Deal.

See

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR)

Newman, Paul

Newman, Phyllis

New Morals for Old

New Republic, The Best Years of Our Lives

New York: Democrats

Hornblow hometown

law firm for Loy vs. MGM

Loew’s

Loy residences

Loy trips

Manhattan Melodrama

Navy Relief Show

Powell

Pretty Ladies

The Thin Man

New York American

“Actress Mends Studio Quarrel”

New York Daily Mirror:

Loy and Hornblow

Test Pilot

New York Daily News

, King and Queen of Hollywood

New Yorker

, E. B. White poem “An Earth-bound Boy”

New York Herald

, Hornblow Sr. as Paris correspondent

New York Herald Tribune:

Loy in

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Loy in

Penthouse

The Rains Came

New York Post

Loy in

I Love You Again

New York Times: Arrowsmith

The Best Years of Our Lives

A

Connecticut Yankee

among ten best films (1931)

“First Lady Takes Role of Myrna Loy”

Hecht-MacArthur pranks

Love Crazy

Loy in

The Animal Kingdom

Loy in

Broadway Bill

Loy in

The Great Ziegfeld

Loy in

Love Me Tonight

Loy in

Parnell

Loy obituary

Loy trip to New York

The Marriage Go Round

Miss Lonelyhearts

Noah’s Ark

Shadow of the Thin Man

Summer Solstice

“Vita-phone Stirs as Talking Movie”

Wings in the Dark

The Women. See also

MGM

Niblo, Fred

Nichols, Mike

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Night Flight

Night Nurse

A Night at the Opera

Ninotchka

Nissen, Greta

Niven, David

Nixon, Richard

Noah’s Ark

Norton, Barry (Alfredo Carlos Biraben)

Novarro, Ramon:

The Barbarian

Ben-Hur

biographer André Soares

Loy love affair rumors

musicale

Nugent, Frank

Nye, Gerald

Oates, Joyce Carol

Oberon, Merle

O’Brien, George

O’Brien, Margaret

O’Brien, Pat

O’Casey, Sean

O’Connor, John

Odets, Clifford

O’Donnell, Cathy

Office of War Information: Overseas Motion Picture Bureau

Sherwood directing

O’Hara, John

Oklahoma

Oland, Warner

The Old Glory

(Lowell)

Oliver, Edna May

Oliver Twist

Olivier, Laurence

Olmstead, Gertrude

Olson, Culbert

“Omar’s Lost Love Song” (Le Gallienne translation)

O

Mistress Mine

(Rattigan)

O’Neill, Eugene

O’Neill, James

On Golden Pond

Oppenheimer, George

Osborne, Robert

Oscars.

See

Academy Awards

O’Shea, Katie

O’Shea, Willie

O’Sullivan, Maureen

O’Toole, Peter

Ouspenskaya, Maria

Outlook and Independent

Loy deserving better parts

Overseas Motion Picture Bureau, Office of War Information

Owens, Elizabeth

Paderewski

Paget, Debra

Pagnol, Marcel

Pakula, Alan

Paley, Babe

Panama, Norman

Paramount

Astoria Studios

Grant

Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre dancers

Hertz Sr. and

Hornblow

Love Me Tonight

Loy

Lubitsch

Mississippi

Nazi era

Powell

Riding High

Ruggles of Red Gap

Valentino’s strike vs.

Vanderlip

Visart

Mae West’s salary

Wings in the Dark

Paris:

The Ambassador’s Daughter

Hornblow Sr. as

New York Herald

correspondent

“The Last Time I Saw Paris”

Loy trips

Nazi invasion

So This Is Paris

UNESCO

Parker, Albert

Parker, Dorothy

Parnell

Parnell, Charles Stewart

Parsons, Louella: Harlow-Powell relationship

Loy-Hertz divorce

Loy-Hornblow relationship

Loy in

The Devil to Pay

Loy in

Renegades

Loy-Markey divorce

Loy’s Americanism defended

The Rains Came

vs. talkies

The Thin Man

radio program

passport, Loy

Pathé,

What Price Beauty

?

Patrick, Gail

Pavlova

pay, average American

pay, movie actors

cuts

Miss Lonelyhearts

Powell

top-earners

Tracy.