Word: loy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability and Frank Capra's knack for getting the best out of his actors are what should make Broadway Bill as widely popular and as much admired by critics as that director's other two astounding hits. As Dan Brooks, Warner Baxter gives by far his best performance; Myrna Loy is even more expert than usual as Dan's sympathetic sister-in-law who helps him groom Broadway Bill for the Derby, pawns her clothes to pay the entry fee. Good shot: Broadway Bill's rooster mascot crowing in his stall...
...EVELYN PRENTICE--William Powell, Myras Loy and Una Merkel get together again and turn out a really super-sophisticated mystery story. The story isn't particularly new, but a couple of original twists, a dash of humor, and a bit of smooth production work bring a really entertaining production...
...Copley Plaza. Peppered with such initial bits of information, cinemaddicts may be pardoned for wrongly concluding that in Evelyn Prentice they are witnessing a new cinema effort to combine advertising with amusement. Such touches are merely inserted to prove that John Prentice (William Powell) and his wife (Myrna Loy) are cinema patricians. Since cinema patricians are incorrigibly ill-behaved, it is not surprising when John Prentice gives a wrist watch to a lady he has defended in a criminal action and when Evelyn Prentice takes up with a blackmailing poet...
When the London Evening Standard ran a contest this autumn to discover a better name for Nova Pilbeam, some of the answers were Beryl Beamstar, Nova Cinemata, June, Dawn, and Marina Pilbeam. She decided to retain her own name, which she considers less whimsical than Myrna Loy or Greta Garbo. Her father is Arnold Pilbeam, for the last 15 years stage manager for the late Sir Nigel Playfair...
This is the one about the lady spy whose espionage and counter espionage is complicated by affairs of the heart. "Stamboul Quest," concerning the exploits of Myrna Loy as a German secret service agent, bears too striking resemblance to the well-known story of Mata Hari, and suffers accordingly. Despite the stereotyped plot, the film is capably handled, and proves interesting. Miss Loy, entrusted with the all-important mission of investigating the loyalty of the Turkish commander of the Dardanelles, moves through her role with capable restraint. George Brent is the disturbing factor in Miss Loy's counter-espionage...