
1990
Witty, warm, sexy and sophisticated.
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.

Kathleen Turner
Self - Host

G. Larry Butler
Narrator (voice)

Myrna Loy
(archive footage)

Warner Baxter
(archive footage)

Dolores Costello
(archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas
(archive footage)

Henry Fonda
(archive footage)

Clark Gable
(archive footage)

Cary Grant
(archive footage)

Al Jolson
(archive footage)

Boris Karloff
(archive footage)

Jeanette MacDonald
(archive footage)

Fredric March
(archive footage)

Frank Morgan
(archive footage)

Noel Neill
(archive footage)

Emory Parnell
(archive footage)

William Powell
(archive footage)

Nancy Reagan
(archive footage)

Ronald Reagan
(archive footage)

Rin-Tin-Tin
(archive footage)

Spencer Tracy
(archive footage)

Teresa Wright
(archive footage)

Robert Young
(archive footage)

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