Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood By Emily W. Leider

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From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy’s rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles in the 1920s, where Loy’s striking looks caught the eye of Valentino, through the silent and early sound era to her films of the thirties, when Loy became a top box office draw, and to her robust post–World War II career. Throughout, Emily W. Leider illuminates the actress’s friendships with luminaries such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford and her collaborations with the likes of John Barrymore, David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, and William Wyler, among many others. This highly engaging biography offers a fascinating slice of studio era history and gives us the first full picture of a very private woman who has often been overlooked despite her tremendous star power.

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A very interesting bio-history of Ms. Loy's family background, and her Montana childhood. She then takes you to her arrival in California and her beginnings into the movie industry. An industry that did nothing but type cast her in a series of movies till she finally started getting some notice. That notice came in one of my favorite pre codes "Penthouse". From there it takes you through the 30's and her slow but steady rise. But it the same time she was having an affair with man that would be her first husband, Arthur Hornblow, jr. However like most her marriages it was not meant to be. She continues on through the years with Miss Loy's pictures into the 40's and 50's, her thoughts on her costars, like "Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, William Powell, Jean Harlow, and Spencer Tracy, and many others", For me personally I didn't mind that she didn't go into what was going on personally in her family life, other than her marriages. It emphasizes Miss Loy's hatred of the term "Perfect Wife" which may have been a curse for her four marriages, they didn't look at her as a woman or a person, just as the person and woman they saw in the movies. The one thing she did have abiding love was for children, though unable to have one of her own, she forms a tight relationship with Arthur Hornblow, jr's son Terry, she has him to visit even after the marriage is over, his children become her grandchildren. She also develops another career in UNESCO and becomes active with politics. Through everything she keeps her circle of friends small even as time is creeping by and not on her side. She is still one of my favorites, but I will warn you its informative on her life and her's alone, and its not gossip book, but its a good read.

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