Myrna Loy interview (1988)

People Magazine ^ | April 4, 1988 | Pope Brock

[Praxeologue]

"The Reagan revolution sits on her like an anvil. "It's a mystery to me why a lot of people don't want Democrats. When I was growing up, it was all Democrats. We wouldn't let a Republican in the back door."

"Another mystery: how, like Vanessa Redgrave, she always managed to keep the hard angles of politics out of her work. How many social reformers could say they regret never having worked with Fred Astaire "because we were so much alike"?"

[Praxeologue]

This 1988 comment by Myrna Loy impressed on me the depth and tenure of Hollywood's devotion to socialist politics. Sadly, not much has changed in the intervening twenty years,

[raybbr]

No big surprises there.

I always thought she was a doll.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I really enjoy her movies.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well she was obviously a dedicated leftist political activist of her own accord. At least in the ‘50s you still had Conservatives in Hollywood who could be open about it. Try that today and you risk ever working again (or getting work to begin with). For whatever their complaints about McCarthy, they’ve spent 50+ years hence making sure those not of the leftist mindset are not to be let in the door (note Loy’s comment about not letting Republicans in). But they should be called exactly what they are... intolerant fascists (and their hypocrisy is epic).

[muir_redwoods]

Someone who’s paid to look good while reading another person’s thoughts is only rarely a good source of political analysis.

[wmileo]

I always thought she was a boor on the screen. As to her beauty, my memory serves me to recall that there were many females on the big screen who were more interesting to look at possessing far greater sex appeal as well.

Her negative comments on Gary Cooper and Clark Gable are as transparent as ever and cowardly as well. They were both not only Republicans, but long deceased by 1988. Her comments about Reagan and Republicans in general were supposed to be funny but miss the mark pitifully.

As for her acting, she was not nearly bad enough to ruin the movies she was in which I enjoyed such as "The Best Years of Our Lives'.

Hardly an endorsement of her work, I would rather watch paint dry.

[Misterioso]

Roosevelt demonized the Republicans all during the Depression. The party never could defend itself as being the friend of “big business” and rich fat cats. Republicans have been treated like second-class citizens by the left-wing media for years. They were never able to argue for the value of capitalism in the face of all the Democrat bromides. Their lack of spine has brought us a communist president.

[SMARTY]

FDR was a regular socialist and so was his ‘wife’. These people were ga ga about the ocialist thinkers of the time.

[submarinerswife]

I LOVE the Thin Man movies. Myrna Loy gets a pass from me but I wonder if she ever talked politics with Communists or Socialists? That is who the Dems are now.

[WashingtonSource]

I met Myrna Loy at a charity event in New York in 1988 when her biography was released and I have a signed copy of the book. She was exceptionally charming and sexy, even at her age. I spoke to her briefly — until a PR guy screamed at me shouting, “No questions. I said no questions and I meant it.” Myrna just smiled and we sat quiet for a few seconds and then continue talking, but with no question.

[SJSAMPLE]

She was amazing.
Her performances with William Powell set the stage for sexy banter.

It’s been poorly imitated ever since.

[a fool in paradise]

The Big Lie is that Communists in Hollywood couldn’t get work. Except they did. And they were hired by people who knew who they were and they used pseudonyms to pull the wool over the American public who may have boycotted their works.

TODAY there exists a blacklist in Hollywood complete with lies, smears, and hysteria against Christians and Conservatives and there is a lot of “agreement” from those in charge of the media.

The Socialists got to write the history. Stalinsts are like that.