Natacha Rambova, the second wife of Rudolph Valentino, arranged a screen test for Loy, which she failed. She kept auditioning and in 1925 appeared in the Rambova-penned movie What Price Beauty? opposite Rambova and Nita Naldi. Her silent film roles we
Natacha Rambova, the second wife of Rudolph Valentino, arranged a screen test for Loy, which she failed. She kept auditioning and in 1925 appeared in the Rambova-penned movie What Price Beauty? opposite Rambova and Nita Naldi. Her silent film roles were mainly those of vampish exotic women. For a few years she struggled to overcome this stereotype with many producers and directors believing that while she was perfect as femmes fatales she was capable of little more.
Her breakthrough occurred with the advent of talkies: she appeared in 1927's The Jazz Singer as an uncredited chorus girl. In 1929 she improvised a "foreign" accent, sang and danced in Warner Brothers' first musical The Desert Song (1929). Loy later commented on the film's success and noted "...it kind of solidified my exotic non-American image". She was quickly cast in a number of early lavish Technicolor musicals including The Show of Shows (1929), The Bride of the Regiment (1930) and Under A Texas Moon (1930). L
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Natacha Rambova, The Second Wife Of Rudolph Valentino, Arranged A Screen Test For Loy, Which She Failed. She Kept Auditioning And In 1925 Appeared In The Rambova-penned Movie What Price Beauty? Opposite Rambova And Nita Naldi. Her Silent Film Roles We
Natacha Rambova, the second wife of Rudolph Valentino, arranged a screen test for Loy, which she failed. She kept auditioning and in 1925 appeared in the Rambova-penned movie What read more...
Rise To Stardom
After appearing with Ramón Novarro in The Barbarian (1933), Loy landed the part that established her as a major actress, Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Director W. S. Van read more...
Later Career
She returned to films with The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946, playing the wife of returning serviceman Fredric March. In later years, Loy considered this film her proudest acting read more...
Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American motion picture actress. Her most famous role was as Nora Charles, wife of detective Nick Charles (William Powell), read more...
Loy was married four times:
Loy had no children of her own, though it is documented that she was very close to the children of her first husband, Arthur Hornblow. "Some perfect read more...
In 1965 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center in 1988.
Although Loy was never read more...