Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

Witty, warm, sexy and sophisticated.

NR 1990 · 46 min · ★ 8.5 · Documentary

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.

Directed by Richard Schickel · Written by Richard Schickel

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Kathleen Turner Self - Host
G. Larry Butler Narrator (voice)
Myrna Loy (archive footage)
Warner Baxter (archive footage)
Dolores Costello (archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas (archive footage)
Henry Fonda (archive footage)
Clark Gable (archive footage)
Cary Grant (archive footage)
Al Jolson (archive footage)
Boris Karloff (archive footage)
Jeanette MacDonald (archive footage)

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