Myrna Loy was the epitome of class.During her long, amazing career she starred in everything from melodramas (The Rains Came) to screwball comedies (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House) to social commentaries (The Best Years of Our Lives) to extravagant musicals (The Great Ziegfeld) to all-star blockbusters (Airport 1975) to a long-running series of romantic who-done-its (The Thin Man, et al).
Yet, in all that time and with all those performances, Loy was never once nominated for an Oscar (the Academy made up for it with an honorary award in 1991), nor has she ever been as canonized as such peers as Davis, Crawford and Hepburn.
However, all one has to do is watch one of her pictures on TCM or on DVD (such as the upcoming box set collecting her non-Nick and Nora movies with frequent co-star William Powell, available August 7) to see how graceful, how witty, how classy she truly is; if you do, I guarantee she will be elevated to your own list of favorite screen actresses.
Click here to pre-order Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection
on DVD from Amazon.com. Link via Imdb.com.
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