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
Kathleen Turner
Self - Host
Henry Fonda
(archive footage)
Cary Grant
(archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
(archive footage)
Robert Young
(archive footage)
Boris Karloff
(archive footage)
Clark Gable
(archive footage)
Myrna Loy
(archive footage)
Teresa Wright
(archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
(archive footage)
William Powell
(archive footage)
Fredric March
(archive footage)
Frank Morgan
(archive footage)
Emory Parnell
(archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas
(archive footage)
Dolores Costello
(archive footage)
Noel Neill
(archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
(archive footage)
Jeanette MacDonald
(archive footage)
Warner Baxter
(archive footage)
Al Jolson
(archive footage)
Rin-Tin-Tin
(archive footage)
G. Larry Butler
Narrator (voice)

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