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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 2, 2020 0:56:48 GMT
So what are your five favorite Myrna Loy movies ?
My give favorite Myrna Loy Movies
1 Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
2 Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
3 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
4 Libeled Lady (1936)
5 The Thin Man (1934)
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 2, 2020 17:53:58 GMT
The Thin Man
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
After the Thin Man
The Best Years of Our Lives
Libeled Lady
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Post by politicidal on Aug 2, 2020 21:53:24 GMT
Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
The Rains Came (1939)
Midnight Lace (1960)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 2, 2020 22:27:25 GMT
Best Years of Our Lives  The Thin Man Series  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 3, 2020 7:02:02 GMT
Any movie she did with William Powell.  Plus The Best Years of Our Lives 1946  and Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948  |
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Post by waldolydecker on Aug 3, 2020 8:24:59 GMT
Love Me Tonight (1932)
The Rains Came (1939)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Double Wedding (1937)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
HM: The Thin Man (1934), Wife vs. Secretary (1936), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932).
Haven't seen The Best Years of Our Lives yet.
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Post by rudeboy on Aug 3, 2020 8:33:08 GMT
The Best Years of Our Lives
Libeled Lady
The Thin Man
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Wife vs. Secretary
Hon. Mentions to The Red Pony and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 3, 2020 15:03:42 GMT
and Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 You found a still from a scene that was deleted before release. That's Dan Tobin as Bunny Funkhauser, the decorator about whom we hear in the finished film but never see. But Jim Blandings has seen him, and what he has to say may be all the information we need: MURIEL: "Why ask how much until you've seen what you're getting?"
JIM: "I've seen Bunny Funkhauser. I know what I'm getting!" |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 3, 2020 15:46:54 GMT
Best Years of Our Lives If one compiled a list of The Greatest Scenes Ever Filmed, maybe five of them would come from this picture alone: Dana Andrews in the boneyard; Cathy O'Donnell's tenderly matter-of-fact acceptance of Harold Russell's bedtime routine; Myrna Loy's gentle lecture to Teresa Wright about the pitfalls of even the happiest marriage; Roman Bohnen's reading aloud of son Andrews's letter of commendation. And the one pictured: the homecoming. So simple, so true, so powerful, and saying so much by saying so little. There can be no better film making. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 3, 2020 18:16:06 GMT
Best Years of Our Lives If one compiled a list of The Greatest Scenes Ever Filmed, maybe five of them would come from this picture alone: Dana Andrews in the boneyard; Cathy O'Donnell's tenderly matter-of-fact acceptance of Harold Russell's bedtime routine; Myrna Loy's gentle lecture to Teresa Wright about the pitfalls of even the happiest marriage; Roman Bohnen's reading aloud of son Andrews's letter of commendation. And the one pictured: the homecoming. So simple, so true, so powerful, and saying so much by saying so little. There can be no better film making. The Cathy O'Donnell & Harold Russell scene gets me every time. Best Years of Our Lives could be the best movie about veterans dealing with post war life. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 3, 2020 18:18:23 GMT
Just saying, I had a thing for her in The Mask of Fu Manchu  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2020 18:20:10 GMT
Rufus-T Doghouse6 .. the homecoming and the letter of commendation are my <snerf> scenes !
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 3, 2020 18:22:22 GMT
Also love her role in The Great Ziegfeld as Billie Burke.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2020 18:24:39 GMT
It's surprising to learn that Myrna was born in Montana ... she somehow always seems so "Urban" ! She was on Last Week's Columbo Etude in Black  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 3, 2020 18:40:56 GMT
Inspired by this thread I watched Double Wedding 1937 earlier today.  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 3, 2020 23:14:38 GMT
I couldn't possibly limit my Loys to five or even ten. But there is one I haven't seen mentioned, and never pass up an opportunity to promote. Test Pilot This one's got everything, especially for Myrna, who's called upon to draw from the range of her talents from sly, witty banter to searing drama.  The three-way chemistry between her, Gable and Tracy is electric and, under director Victor Fleming's sure hand, scenes play with freshness, vitality and spontaneity that can still charm over eighty years on. They speak not as actors reciting dialogue, but the way real people talk, full of mercurial changes of mood, incomplete sentences, overlapping exchanges and obscure private references indicating coded understandings. Colorful and credible supporting roles are inhabited by the likes of Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Louis Jean Heydt, Samuel S. Hinds, Gregory Gaye, Virginia Grey and Gloria Holden (best known as Dracula's Daughter), who gives a brief but standout performance that ultimately becomes gut-wrenching.  It's 1938, so aerial special effects are uneven, going from patently phony one second to startlingly real the next (the crash of a B-17 into a rocky forest, with the dead silence that follows, is astonishing). But those moments are not what the film is about. It's the humanity. Another one, notable for an uncharacteristic performance from Loy, is The Animal Kingdom.  Myrna is the passive-aggressively domineering wife of free spirit Leslie Howard, seeking both to tame him and quell his attraction to equally free-spirited artist Ann Harding (with whom Loy would spar again the following year in the intelligent dramedy, When Ladies Meet). |
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Post by hi224 on Aug 4, 2020 2:34:39 GMT
So what are your five favorite Myrna Loy movies ? My give favorite Myrna Loy Movies 1 Manhattan Melodrama (1934) 2 Wife vs. Secretary (1936) 3 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 4 Libeled Lady (1936) 5 The Thin Man (1934) nice. |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 4, 2020 10:56:07 GMT
I'm kind of surprised by the lack of love for Mr. Blandings.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 4, 2020 13:42:01 GMT
I'm kind of surprised by the lack of love for Mr. Blandings. I've got more than enough love for Blandings to make up for any missing from the thread. You can't go wrong with Grant and Loy on the menu but, for my money, droll Melvyn Douglas adds the seasoning that elevates the meal from solid to special. Garnish with the colorful characters played by Reginald Denny, Ian Wolf, Harry Shannon, Louise Beavers, Lurene Tuttle, Tito Vuolo and others, with delicious Panama/Frank dialogue, and it becomes irresistible; one for which craving returns again and again. Why am I using food metaphors? Must be the Wham. Perhaps you're aware that that the house seen built in the film was quite real and still exists in what is now Malibu Creek State Park in CA. As a promotion connected to the film, over 70 such homes following the same basic plan (while allowing for modifications) were built across the country, many of which remain to this day. There's one in the WA city in which I live that's just a couple miles up the road. Here's how it appeared in 1948 when open for tours:  Here it is today:  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 7, 2020 16:29:25 GMT
I absolutely adore Myrna Loy—and I’m delighted to see the Mr. Blandings love!
I’ve owned The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer for years as part of TCM’s Cary Grant set and for some reason have just never gotten around to watching it. Have to remedy that sooner rather than later…
Also, everyone here probably already knows this story, but it’s a hoot:Hm, funnily enough I’d misremembered Carole Lombard in Harlow’s “role” in that story…!
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