Posted on 09/18/2022 11:01:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In the first couple of pages of her 1987 memoir Being and Becoming, Myrna Loy gets down to business. Talking about the sex lives of Hollywood stars such as herself, she tells us that "any business involving so many beautiful and high-strung people working together on such intense and intimate terms is bound to breed an easy promiscuity. God knows I've fended off my share of amorous men – attractive, desirable men."
She goes on to provide a short list: John Barrymore ("just because he felt like a little redhead now and then didn't incline me to join the club..."), Clark Gable (she shoved him off her back porch one night after he made a pass "and, boy, did he punish me for that!"), Spencer Tracy ("he chased me for years, then sulked adorably when I married someone else...") and Leslie Howard (despite both of them being married he "wanted to whisk me off to the South Seas, and, believe me, that was tempting...").
"These days you're made to feel dull and defensive if you weren't the Whore of Babylon," Loy writes. "Well, succumbing isn't the only interesting aspect of a relationship."
It's no surprise that a woman who understands this much was such a natural in screwball comedies, where succumbing is usually held at bay until the last shot, the better to draw out the difficulties, obstacles and improbabilities set up like an obstacle course along the way.
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Four marriages. I had no idea.
she was great
My favorite movie of all time: Best Years of Our Lives.
So few people seem to know about it. Timeless.
Always a fan of Myrna Loy and William Powell. They don’t make movies like they used to.
“Was supposedly the favorite star of famed outlaw John Dillinger. He came out of hiding to see Manhattan Melodrama (1934), in which she starred, and was gunned down by police upon leaving the theater.”
“[on Ronald Reagan] I never worked with Ronald Reagan. I’m not happy that he’s President. I was willing to give him a chance. But he’s destroying everything now I’ve lived my life for.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001485/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Whenever I watch an old movie, I pull up the actors and actresses on Wikipedia. Most were married and divorced at least three times. Or they turned out to be poofters.
First marriage to producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., whose best films followed their divorce.
They don’t make them like that anymore. She was sophistication and top tier.
^ Rules
Third Finger, Left Hand - Original Theatrical Trailer
Warner Bros.
July 8, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJOCjkhong
Third finger, left hand. That’s where unmarried fashion-magazine editor Margot Sherwood Merrick (Myrna Loy) parks a wedding ring, hoping to deter male colleagues who have more than business on their minds. Then a smitten artist (Melvyn Douglas [”In 1931, Douglas married actress-turned-politician Helen Gahagan.”]) learns Margot’s secret and begins a charade of his own by passing himself off as her beloved hubby. Loy and Douglas, expert romantic farceurs who sparkled in some of Hollywood’s best romantic comedies (including Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House) are splendidly sophisticated and delightfully goofy in their first film together. “I adored him,” Loy said of the man who became her longtime friend off screen. Their camaraderie rings some funny on-screen wedding bells.
A great way to spend time
Or they died young of "respiratory disease."
Nora Charles!
Loved Melvyn Douglas.
BKMK
I adored the thin man series. I own Mr. Blanding’s Dreamhouse. Great actress.
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