Word: loy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Showing for free. From Dash Hammett's twenties novel, and in the film the script is just as sophisticated and hilarious. Infinitely better than any of the many sequels to it, the original version was made in 1934, of course with William Powell as Nick Charles and Myrna Loy as Nora Charles, both drunken...
Gabts A Clark Gable triple feature at Gund Hall. It Happened One Night by Frank Capra and with Claudette Colbert is the best. Also Wife vs. Secretary with Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart, made in 1923. And San Francisco with Spencer Tracy and Jeanette Mac Donald, who tries to sing "San Francisco, open your Golden Gate." There's a great earthquake scene near...
George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar and Myrna Loy can also be found in the vicinity.) It is to be wished that everyone in the film would go away - violently - and that catastrophe movies would molder with them. Unfortunately, they are not going to. In addition to such current examples as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (see below) and Juggernaut (TIME, Oct. 21), Earthquake and The Towering Inferno will be unleashed in the next couple of months. Somehow, the knowledge that the genre is not yet played out makes Airport 1975 seem even worse...
...crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
Following in the prop wash of Airport, the movie Airport 1975 promises to have even more stars aboard. In the cast are Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson, Karen Black, Charlton Heston, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.-and Pop Star Helen Reddy (I Am Woman), who makes her movie debut as a singing nun. In one scene, Reddy is seated at Washington's Dulles Airport next to Nun Martha Scott, who points out Celebrity Gloria Swanson, surrounded by the press. "She must be an actress," says Reddy. "Or worse," replies Scott. This dialogue seemed unconvincing to the first actress who was approached...