Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Witty, warm, sexy and sophisticated.
1990 · 46m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Richard Schickel
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Richard Schickel Director
- Kathleen Turner as Self - Host
- G. Larry Butler as Narrator
- Myrna Loy as (archive footage)
- Warner Baxter as (archive footage)
- Dolores Costello as (archive footage)
- Melvyn Douglas as (archive footage)
- Henry Fonda as (archive footage)
- Clark Gable as (archive footage)
- Cary Grant Cast
- Al Jolson Cast
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