Myrna in The Best Years of Our Lives
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Myrna Loy
Josh_bonito — 17 years ago(August 25, 2008 07:47 AM)
I love her performance in The Best Years of Our Lives, but it's clearly a supporting role. Maybe 15, 20 minutes screentime, max. She gets top billing, though - a testament to her star status at the time.
Does anyone think this cost her what was probably her best shot at an Oscar nomination (discounting The Thin Man, for which she would surely have been nominated had the Academy had five nominees in each category rather than three)? At the time, I would imagine it was unthinkable for a star of Loy's magnitude to be entered as a supporting role. Did the reluctance of voters to nominate a fairly short performance in lead cost her a likely nod for Best Years? -
RobertCoffie — 15 years ago(November 29, 2010 03:31 PM)
A missing story ,
my dad Robert Coffie SR born,1937 said that he use to dance at the million dollar theater growing up
"tap dance "his mother, "my grandmother" Mary E Coffie and Myrna Loy were best friends my dad said Myrna would baby sit him while my grandmother would go to work in film he was bout 3,4,5,or 6. he was baically hiden from everyone due to studio contract, i have some pictures and would like if anybody new anything bout this time frame that Myrna may have talked about, plus my dad was givin to a orphanage later to the dallenbach's and was there for some time but his mother would come from time to time to see him
if you know anything that can help me please let me know please
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dWillVanGreemen — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 11:25 AM)
No clue there
And that is all because
nobody outside of Hwood
cares about nominations
except for church stuff
And even there
it's not all that pretty
But M Loy is
Miss M Loy really is
all that pretty
beautiful
lovely
talented
wonderful
one All-Time Great
one All-Time Beautiful
one All-Time Lovely
one All-Time Talented
one All-Time Wonderful
nice and professional
an actress
that M Loy
Or many M Loy
would rather play
sister to S Temple
than mother to
adult stars
Cannot say
was not there
who knows
who knows
But M Loy
in B Years of O Lives
may not steal the show
but deserves top billing
even above F March
because of her great
kind and lovely
wonderful and professional
performance
which only M Loy
knows how to perform
holding F March
backwards
and within 20 minutes
[harp]
[saint] [candle] [piano]
â
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Not even Mad Scientists
get it right every time