Word: loy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ziegfeld-was the second of her cinema career. In addition to giving the best performance of the year in The Great Ziegfeld, Luise Rainer (rhymes with "shiner") gave highly distinguished ones in her first picture, Escapade, in which, newly arrived from Vienna, she became a star overnight when Myrna Loy refused to play the lead, and in The Good Earth, released too late for consideration last week. In one of the busiest 1936s in or out of the cinema industry, Immigrant Rainer not only became the No. 1 U. S. Cinemactress but also found time to fall in love with...
...acted by Robert Young and Ann Sothern; Young is one of these boys who finds that looking peeved, frowning, flouncing about and shouting too loud is the only way he can impress personality on you. And last, it's an attempt at the type of comedy the Crawford-Tone, Loy-Powell successes have made popular, and consequently it spoils the effectiveness of the main feature...
...experts in Dashiell Hammett plots will be able to tell the difference. In this picture, Asta. Detective Nick Charles's wire-haired terrier, has a mate, and the scene of operations is San Francisco instead of New York. In other respects, Mr. & Mrs. Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) maintain unchanged the amiably frantic domesticity which, in The Thin Man, set the style for detective cinema...
William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...
...vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk of the American Section of the Universal Christian Council went to Moscow and discovered to what lengths Soviet bureaucracy was prepared...