Authors: Emily W. Leider
Lainie Kazan, January 3, 2007
Richard Lamparski, multiple conversations
Robert Lantz, August 3, 2006, and March 18, 2007
Jack Larson, July 3, 2006
Bob Lasanka, December 20, 2007
A. C. Lyles, June 17, 2008
Arnie Malina, September 27, 2005
Leonard Maltin, December 5, 2007
Marvin Paige, several conversations
Rex Reed, March 11, 2009
Lisa Ryan, October 25, 2008
June Springer, November 26, 2007
Laurel Taylor, August 24, 2008, and via email
Kevin Thomas, December 16, 2007
Joan Van Ark, September 10, 2009
Jeffrey Vance, July 30, 2007
Melinda Markey Van Dyke, September 29, 2007
LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS
Noelle Carter at Warner Bros. Archives, University of Southern California.
Ned Comstock at the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library for his extraordinary generosity and thoughtfulness.
Julie Graham and Lauren Buisson at the UCLA Performing Arts Library, Special Collections.
Barbara Hall, Kristine Krueger, Faye Thompson, Stacey Behlmer, and Linda Mehr at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
J. C. Johnson at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Lisa Kallow, Clerk of the District Court, Lewis and Clark County, Montana.
Jane Klain and Richard Holbrook at the Paley Center for Media, New York.
Rebecca Kohl at the Montana Historical Society.
Harry Miller at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research.
Charles Silver and Ron Magliozzi at the Museum of Modern Art Film Study Center, New York.
Josie L. Walters-Johnson, Rosemary Hanes, and Madeline Matz at the Library of Congress Motion Picture Division. Walter Zvonchenko at the Library of Congress Performing Arts Division.
Valerie Yaros, Screen Actors Guild historian.
In addition I would like to thank Kevin Brownlow, for opening his files, reviewing several chapters, and answering endless queries; Bob Gitt and Tony Slide for comments and corrections on my chapter on the transition to sound; Cat Nielson for genealogical research; Karie Bible for her work on the filmography and her research assistance; Cari Beauchamp, Matt Shelby Black, Ron Bowers, Jim Curtis, Dick DeNeut, Scott Eyman, Joyce Marie Faust, Carmen Bley Gilley, Eve Golden, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Donna Hill, Ann Kahn, Brian Kellow, Matthew Kennedy, John Kern, Terence Kingsley-Smith, Mick LaSalle, Betty Lasky, Tim Lithgow, Christina McKillip, Lisa Mitchell, Scott O’Brien, Jim Parish, Maxine Savitz, Judy Wyler Sheldon, Charlene Spalding, David Stenn, Roy T. Thorsen, Mark Vieira, Shelly Wanger, Ernest Young, and Gwenda Young; my agent, Jin Auh, and Jacqueline Ko, her assistant, at the Wylie Agency; my excellent editor at UC Press, Mary Francis, ably assisted by Eric Schmidt, Suzanne Knott, and ace copy editor Joe Abbott; and my first reader, Bill Leider, for his bottomless support and for watching movies with me. Of course he fell for Myrna Loy.
Index
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ABC:
Hollywood Fights Back
Summer Solstice
abortion: Harlow’s
Loy’s
screen censorship
Academy Awards:
Arrowsmith
nominations (1931)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
script
Baxter in 1928’s
In Old Arizona
The Best Years of Our Lives
in several categories (1946)
Clift nominations
Crain in
Pinky
(1949)
Dressler nomination (1932)
Freed producing
The Great Ziegfeld
for Best Picture (1936)
It Happened One Night
actors (1934)
“The Last Time I Saw Paris” for Best Song (1940)
Lombard as Best Actress for
My Man Godfrey
(1936)
Loy never nominated for
Loy Oscar for Lifetime Achievement (1990)
Loy as presenter
Manhattan Melodrama
for Best Story
McLaglen in
The Informer
(1935)
MGM and Warner Bros. monopolizing
Milestone as Best Director
Mrs. Miniver
winning Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director (1942)
Muni as Best Actor (1936)
Powell nominated for
My Man Godfrey
(1936)
Rainer as Best Actress for
The Good Earth
(1937)
Rainer as Best Actress for
The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
The Rains Came
Ruggles of Red Gap
nominated (1935)
Schlesinger as Best Director for
Midnight Cowboy
(1970)
Stapleton in
Miss Lonelyhearts
Test Pilot
Best Picture nomination
The Thin Man
nominations (1934)
Tracy as Best Actor
Transatlantic
sets (1931)
Wings
as Best Picture (1927)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Carnegie Hall celebration of Loy (1985)
Crawford memorial
Herrick as executive secretary
Nagel as one founder.
See also
Academy Awards
Acheson, Dean
wife Alice
Across the Pacific
acting style: stage.
See also
Loy, Myrna—acting style; Loy, Myrna—stage acting
Adler, Larry
Adrian costumes
The Hooded Falcon
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Parnell
What Price Beauty?
adultery.
See
sexual infidelities
“After great pain a formal feeling comes” (Dickinson)
After the Thin Man
American Place Theatre celebration
censorship
Perfect Wife
San Francisco
Agee, James
agents.
See
Loy, Myrna—agents
Ager, Cecilia
aging actors
airlines.
See also
aviation films
Airplane
Airport 1975
Alfred, William
“Al Jolson in a Plantation Act”
Allan, Elizabeth
Allan, Ted
Allen, Gene
Allen, George V.
Allied Pictures
Alvarado, Don/Don Page
The Ambassador’s Daughter
Ameche, Don
American Association for the United Nations (AAUN)
American Federation of Labor
American Newspaper Women’s Club
American Photo-Engraver
American Place Theatre
American Red Cross, Loy work
American Slav Congress
Ames, Robert
Anderson, Diana
Andrews, Dana
Andy Hardy series
The Animal Kingdom
Annabella
Another Thin Man
Apger, Virgil
Applause
The April Fools
The Arab
Army Emergency Relief
The Army Play by Play
Arrowsmith
Art and Beauty
magazine
Arthur.
See
Hornblow, Arthur Jr.
Arthur disco
Arthur, Jean
Ashley, Lady Sylvia (formerly Edith Hawkes)
Asian roles: Loy
The Rains Came
Astaire, Fred
Asta the dog,
The Thin Man
series
Astor, Mary
AT&T, test film made by Bell Telephone Labs
Atlantic Charter Conference (1941)
August, Joseph
autobiography, Loy’s.
See Being and Becoming
aviation films
The Awful Truth
Ayckbourn, Alan
Bacall, Lauren
Bachardy, Don
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Baclanova, Olga
Baer, Max
Baker, Kara
Ball, Lucille
Bamberger.
See
MacFarlane, Louella Bamberger
Banky, Vilma
Banton, Travis
Bara, Theda
The Barbarian
Barbier, Larry
Barefoot in the Park
(Simon)
Barkley, Alben
Barnes, Clive
Barnes, Howard
Barry, Philip
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Barthelmess, Richard
Bates, Florence
Baxter, Warner:
Broadway Bill
In Old Arizona
Academy Award
Loy co-star
Penthouse
Renegades
To Mary–with Love
Bazin, André
BBC, Masaryk broadcasts
Beau Brummel
Beavers, Louise
Beerbohm, Max
Behlmer, Rudy
Behrman, S.N.
Behymer, Lynden E.
Being and Becoming
(Loy autobiography with Kotsilibas-Davis)
abortion
celebrations for
Clift sexuality
collaborations
father’s death
Gable
Harlow
Hornblow infidelities
love of her life
Markey infidelities
marriage goal
MGM conflict
and Nettie Qualls
ranch
Belafonte, Harry
Belknap Rowley, Gladys
Bell, Monta
Belles on Their Toes
Bell Telephone Labs, test film
Ben-Hur
Benjamin, Richard
Bennett, Constance
Bennett, Joan
Bennett, Richard
Benny, Jack
Berenson, Bernard
Bergere, Ouida (Mrs. Basil Rathbone)
Bergman, Ingrid
Berman, Pandro
Bern, Paul
The Best Man
(Vidal)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Academy Awards
American or anti-American
Harold Russell as Homer
Loy
March
Sherwood script
Beverly Hills residences: during
Belles on Their Toes
Hitchcock
Loy with family
Loy with Hornblow
Loy with roommates
staff
Beware of Married Men
The Big Parade
Bitter Apples
Black, Betty Berger
dance performances
Hawaii
Hornblow’s treatment of Loy’s friends
husband Bob
Jewish
Lake Arrowhead
on Loy-Markey marriage
Loy and Eleanor Roosevelt
Loy-Sargeant wedding
and Loy’s brother
on Loy trip with mother’s ashes
and sexuality
Washington
Black, Bob
blacklist
Blackstone Theater,
Barefoot in the Park
The Black Watch
“Blandings Dream Houses”
Blithe Spirit
Blondell, Joan
The Blue Bird
(Maeterlinck)
Boatwright, Alice Lee “Boaty”
Body and Soul
Bogart, Humphrey
Boles, John
Bolton, Guy
Boom Town
Boston University, Loy archive
Bosworth, Patricia
Bow, Clara
box-office.
See
top box-office movies
Boyer, Charles
Brabin, Charles
Brady, Alice
Brecher, Irving
Breen, Joseph (at PCA):
The Best Years of Our Lives
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The Great Ziegfeld
Infidelity
Libeled Lady
and marriage
Parnell
The Rains Came
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Test Pilot
The Thin Man
Wife vs. Secretary
.
See also
Production Code Administration (PCA)
Brent, George
Brice, Fannie
Bride of the Regiment
Bringing Up Baby
Brisson, Frederick
Britain: Fairbanks guest list
films sympathetic to
Loy trip
MGM’s Denham Studio
Royal Command Film Performance
royalty
That Dangerous Age
World War II
Brizzi, Anchise
Broadway:
The Army Play by Play
Barefoot in the Park
(Simon)
Barry plays
“Broadway for Stevenson”
Burke
Chicago
Crawford
Depression
The Desert Song
Harding
Hornblow
in
The Jazz Singer
Levene in
Three Men on a Horse
Look After Lulu
Loy dream
The Marriage Go Round
in
Noah’s Ark
Parnell
post-Thalberg MGM and
Powell
Relatively Speaking
(Ayckbourn)
“The Road to Rome” (Sherwood)
Schary play
Stewart play
talkie transition and
Warner Bros. actors from
What Price Glory?
The Women
World War II
“Ziegfeld Follies”
Broadway Bill
Brock, Elsie Jensen