Documentary
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
Directed by
Richard Schickel
Written by
Richard Schickel
Cary Grant
(archive footage)
Henry Fonda
(archive footage)
Kathleen Turner
Self - Host
Robert Young
(archive footage)
Myrna Loy
(archive footage)
Noel Neill
(archive footage)
Clark Gable
(archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
(archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
(archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas
(archive footage)
Fredric March
(archive footage)
Teresa Wright
(archive footage)
Boris Karloff
(archive footage)
William Powell
(archive footage)
Warner Baxter
(archive footage)
Jeanette MacDonald
(archive footage)
Emory Parnell
(archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
(archive footage)
Al Jolson
(archive footage)
Frank Morgan
(archive footage)
G. Larry Butler
Narrator (voice)
Dolores Costello
(archive footage)
Rin-Tin-Tin
(archive footage)

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