Myrna Loy was never once nominated for an Oscar

In my own Not-So-Humble-Opinion, the only one that is really weak is the last of the six, "Song Of The Thin Man." That one is kind of dull and plodding plus Nick doesn't actually solve the mystery but sets up a trap to force the killer to reveal himself - and even then, it's not much of a surprise. Still, it is never a Bad Thing to spend an hour and a half with Nick, Nora, and Asta.

BTW, there are some who claim that in the original first film from Hammett's novel, the murder is also not solved but the criminal trapped - based on Nick's off-hand statement that he had no idea who the killer was when he called all the suspects together, but my feeling is that he was either being modest or setting himself up to look even better than it turned out. lol.

  She was always so solid, so subtle, so dependable, that she was taken for granted. All the Oscars tended to go to the histrionic performances by over-the-top actresses. Maybe she should have played a murderess, a prostititute, or someone with a mental disorder, and she could've gotten the gold. She never got any of those scenery-chewing, attention-grabbing parts, so she was destined to remain Oscarless in her long, impressive career. Any movie she appeared in was always automatically better because of her presence. She was always one of the prettiest actresses, too.

I heard it was a public relations disaster for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that they belatedly tried to rectify decades later with an Honorary Award. That was a nice gesture, for sure, but too often the principled Myrna Loy had been passed over due to voters selecting the same old cronies.

And it's not even a fair-play clue, either!

That's something that annoys me about the plotting in After: the first movie goes out of its way not to give us a fair-play, well-clued detective story because it emphasizes how much more important the relationship between Nick and Nora is (as I just wrote to Mike)--and I've got to say I love it.

But After does give us a detective-story, complete with clues and suspects and deduction on Nick's part--and then squanders it all by not telling the audience about the clue (and not all that great a clue, either, to be honest--one of those "I Never Said It Was Poison" deals).

It seems inexplicable to me that the writers spend all that time centering the plot around that clue (and it is a lot of time spent on it, when we could be spending time with N&N) and then never give us the clue! (That's not my only problem with After--though I still enjoy it a lot, albeit not as much as the first.)

A week or so ago I watched an old (c1980) interview Loy did with Dick Cavett on the Decades channel.
She spoke of growing up in Montana, her father's death, her family's move to Los Angeles, changing her name, her roles as an exotic girl, her friendship with Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova and many other things.
She also spoke of attending Venice High School. A sculptor friend of hers got her to pose for a statue he was making for the high school and that statue is still standing in front of the school. Over the years the statue was vandalized and one of the arms was broken off. The statue has since been restored.
You can see the statue, missing an arm, at the beginning of the movie Grease (1978). Here is a photo from the movie.
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And here is a photo of the restored statue.
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Perhaps because she didn't play very exciting characters on the whole. She usually seems to be someone's loyal and dependable wife, or something like that.