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Myrna Loy: Hollywood Ten
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Myrna Loy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6685 Hollywood Boulevard. A building at Sony Pictures Studios, formerly MGM Studios, in Culver City is named in her honor.[5]
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Synopsis: Hollywood veterans Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy co-starred for the first and only time in the 60-minute TV drama Summer Solstice. Fonda and Loy portray Joshua and Margaret Turner, who during their fiftieth year of marriage pay a visit to the Cape Cod beach where they first fell in love. In flashbackRead More
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Myrna Loy, the citizen, was equally impressive. She worked for the Red Cross, supported the United Nations, and became a spokesperson for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). She ... fought the Hollywood blacklisting and witch hunts of the '50's and served on Civil Rights Commissions. Throughout her life she demonstrated a genuine concern for fellow human-beings.
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NOTE: In her autobiography, Myrna Loy states, "We bought a house on Delmas Terrace in Culver City, a hamlet between Hollywood and the Pacific Ocean." While part of Delmas Terrace is indeed in Culver City, the Loy house was actually located within Los Angeles city limits. Some excellent detective work by the editor at The Palms-Village Sun, uncovered this error.
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At the age of 18, Myrna left school and was hired as a dancer at Sid Grauman's Egyptian Movie House. In the days of the silents, movies were often shown after a prologue - a troupe of dancers setting the scene for the movie itself. Her first role was in the prologue for Cecil B DeMille's first Ten Commandments. Rudolph Valentino spotted some publicity photos for the Egyptian Movie House, in which Myrna featured. At the time, he and his wife Winifred Shaunessy - better and more exotically known as Natacha Rambova - were looking for a leading lady for their film Cobra and Myrna was tested for the part. Although she was unsuccessful, the experience piqued her interest in films and she began to haunt the gates of MGM.
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When her reputation began gathering momentum, Myrna changed her last name to the Oriental-sounding Loy. Her first major role was in Across The Pacific (1927); her first speaking role was in State Street Sadie (1929), which was originally a silent movie but had sound and dialogue added when “talkies” suddenly changed Hollywood. She was then appearing in an average of nine films per year.
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