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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Documentary

9.0

Release Date

June 4, 1990

Duration

46 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

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.

Casts

Kathleen Turner

Self - Host

Kathleen Turner

G. Larry Butler

Narrator (voice)

G. Larry Butler

Myrna Loy

(archive footage)

Myrna Loy

Warner Baxter

(archive footage)

Warner Baxter

Dolores Costello

(archive footage)

Dolores Costello

Melvyn Douglas

(archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

Henry Fonda

(archive footage)

Henry Fonda

Clark Gable

(archive footage)

Clark Gable

Cary Grant

(archive footage)

Cary Grant

Al Jolson

(archive footage)

Al Jolson

Boris Karloff

(archive footage)

Boris Karloff

Jeanette MacDonald

(archive footage)

Jeanette MacDonald

Fredric March

(archive footage)

Fredric March

Frank Morgan

(archive footage)

Frank Morgan

Noel Neill

(archive footage)

Noel Neill

Emory Parnell

(archive footage)

Emory Parnell

William Powell

(archive footage)

William Powell

Nancy Reagan

(archive footage)

Nancy Reagan

Ronald Reagan

(archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Rin-Tin-Tin

(archive footage)

Rin-Tin-Tin

Spencer Tracy

(archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

Teresa Wright

(archive footage)

Teresa Wright

Robert Young

(archive footage)

Robert Young

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