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In putting together these movie sites you learn a lot aboutthe subject. Myrna Loy aka Myrna Adele Williams. Her name was changed to Loy in honor of famous British Poet Mina Loy. Shewas said to have had the perfect nose for movies. I found this claim as odd butit was based on the demands of clients asking their plastic surgeons to maketheir noses look like Myrna Loy.

John Dillinger was just 2 years older thanMyrna Loy and had a huge crush on her that lead to his death. At approximately 8:30p.m. on July22, 1934, John Dillinger was shot dead after trying to escape down an alleynext to the Biograph Theater in Chicago, which was showing thecrime drama Manhattan Melodrama, featuring ClarkGable, MyrnaLoy, and William Powell.

During the late 1930s, when Clark Gable was named the King of Hollywood, Myrna Loy was elected the Queen. The legendary actress, who started her career as a dancer, moved into silent films and was typecast for a few years as exotic women. Her film titles from those early years include Arrowsmith (1931), Love Me Tonight (1932), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), and Manhattan Melodrama (1934), the film that gangster John Dillinger just had to see the night he was killed. Starting in 1934, with The Thin Man, opposite William Powell, she became Hollywood's ideal wife: bright, witty, humorous. She and Powell were often teamed throughout the '30s and '40s, and many of the characters she played were strong, independent, adventurous women. In addition to The Thin Man series, Loy's best appearances included The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Libeled Lady (1936), Wife vs. Secretary (1936), Test Pilot (1938), and Too Hot to Handle (1938). She took a break from filmmaking during WWII to work with the Red Cross, and in her later years she devoted as much time to politics as to acting (among her accomplishments, Loy became the first film star to work with the United Nations). She stands out in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), and its sequel Belles on Their Toes (1952). She received an honorary Oscar in 1991, two years before her death.

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