Word: myrna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stamboul Quest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) goes one step beyond the usual spy story, deals with counter-espionage in Wartime Constantinople. A German spy, Annemarie (Myrna Loy), is set to catch the Turkish Commander of the Dardanelles, who is suspected of selling secrets to the British. With the aid of a large straw hat, and a plan as devious as her Oriental quarry, she succeeds. When she is falsely told that her scheme caused the death of her lover, she becomes mentally deranged, stays cooped up in a nunnery until he returns...
Mounted with authority against a technically difficult background and cannily photographed by James Wong Howe, Stamboul Quest is a mediocre vehicle for another lively performance by Myrna Loy. Best shot: Nuns trooping, two by two, past the demented Annemarie...
...says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found...
...still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much better in an exotic role than in the one she is forced to play...
...Born Myrna Williams 29 years ago on a Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...