Word: myrna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary-With Love (Twentieth Century-Fox). "People are always saying the movies should be more like life. I think life should be more like the movies," says Mary Wallace (Myrna Loy) soon after she has had a quarrel with her husband. This movie is too much like life to be spectacular entertainment. Nevertheless it is a biting case history of what has happened to some bright young people in the last ten years...
...famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...Married. Myrna Loy, 31, sloe-eyed, Montana-born cinemactress (The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld); and Arthur Hornblow Jr., 43, scenarist, associate producer for Paramount; at Ensenada, Lower California, Mexico...
...Connecticut Yankee", joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...
...second half of the picture exhibits in euphemistic style the collapse of Producer Ziegfeld's romance with Anna Held, his meeting with Billie Burke (Myrna Loy), Christmas Day among the home-loving Ziegfelds, including small Patricia and her dolls. Enraged as his stars go off to Hollywood, Ziegfeld goes into a slump. He recoups again, puts four simultaneous hits on Broadway, mortgages their receipts to play the market. When Producer Ziegfeld died in 1932, he was heavily in debt.* In this particular, the picture is historically trustworthy. Its hero is shown expiring in elegant penury, an orchid...