I wish she had said more. She doesn't look so bad, for being 86 years old! What a sweet lady.
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HarlowMGM — 19 years ago(December 27, 2006 01:35 AM)
She was very old by that time and would pass away in a few years. She hadn't made a public appearance in several years when she won the Oscar and would never be seen again in public so she may not have been that well at the time. I'm glad she finally got the recognition she deserve5b4d but it really should have been at least five years before when she was still well enough to attend the ceremony and was still occasionally working and being seen in public.
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MerryArtist — 19 years ago(January 13, 2007 07:07 PM)
The Best Years of Our Lives was the first film of Miss Loy's that I ever saw, and she instantly struck me as a great leading lady. Women like Myrna are sorely missed today I still get appalled whenever I remember that she was never even nominated for an Oscar.
"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." - Myrna Loy -
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redesdale — 18 years ago(August 09, 2007 09:57 PM)
Agreed! How incredibly petty! And anyway, it's not as though it's available for PURCHASE anywhere anyway, or if it is, it's a tiny blurb buried in some sort of "best of". Can't steal that which isn't available for sale to begin with.
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lutherpons — 18 years ago(September 16, 2007 10:33 AM)
Myrna had been coming off about a year or two of serious health problems when she got the Oscar. It was sad because these issues kept her homebound in her later years. Myrna was NOT a homebody. I recall seeing her just about every night thru the 70's and 80's. Broadway openings, screenings, charity events, you name it and Myrna was there.
I had been told that at the point Myrna got the Oscar she was ambivalent about appearing. She felt she wasn't looking her best. Finally she was convinced to accept in her apartment. That worked.
As for the Academy. They constantly remove footage from YouTube and they steadfastly refuse to release any publicly. It is a shame. I have all of the Oscars on DVD going back 30 years ut there are a few I'd really like to have. Maybe someday someone will realize the potential of making them available. Think of the money the Academy would raise for its causes. -
mosthappyfella — 17 years ago(May 26, 2008 10:24 AM)
"Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences" LOL, what a pompous absolutely nonsense name for a load of old farts who have nothing better to do than to count their money and grandiosely overestimate their contribution to "arts" and "science"the "academy" was founded as a lucrative counterweight against unionization in the film industry in the late twenties, it never had anything to do with art and even less with science. As such it remained an inbred yearly party where Hollywood phonies applauded eachother's supposed achievements untill the advent of television when the big money came in the marketing men made it into the circus it still is todayit's fun, sometimes, but the clowns parading on the red carpet are there for our amusement..don't pity them : they are getting richly rewarded for the "awful" but willing loss of privacy that bargain entailsapart from all that I love Myrna Loy pictures and am sure she had no illusions about either "art" or "science" having anything to do with her business ! the five words she spoke as her acceptance speech were more than enough, she probably hated the fact she wasn't getting paid for the performance
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fatbastard321 — 15 years ago(September 10, 2010 04:05 PM)
Here you go:
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HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(August 09, 2012 09:50 PM)
Yes, it's a shame there were so few tv appearances by Myrna Loy in the 1970's and 1980's when she was still in fairly good health and living a qui238te active life as you note. She was not the type to go into seclusion because she wasn't a mirror image of her old self from forty years earlier like several of her contemporaries. I would have loved to have seen her on more talk shows and tv gigs in this period and I'd imagine she would have accepted most of them, after all she accepted tv movies like ANTS!
I remember Tom Snyder on his old TOMORROW show in the early 1980's announcing Henry Fonda, who was scheduled to appear on the show, would not be appearing because his publicist John Springer had c2000ancelled due to the Tomorrow Show declining Springer's suggestion to book other cilents for the show. I presume those cilents were Springer's friends Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney and I absolutely cannot believe this show (which I liked) would have the arrogance to turn down the chance to interview either of them!! After all, they booked many much less significant vintage celebrities on the show (just a year later they did a charming roundtable discussion with a half-dozen silent leading ladies such as Laura La Plante and Leatrice Joy) but apparently they got haughty at the idea of Springer "telling" them what to do. It could have been a win-win situation for all! -
Aussie Stud — 13 years ago(March 30, 2013 11:09 AM)
If you search Gettysimages, you can find some of Myrna making some public appearances in NYC (with Lauren Bacall by her side) and I believe it was around 1993 right before she died. They may have been taken after her Oscars appearance and she looks terrible. She looked beautiful when she received her honorary Oscar but I don't know what happened when these photos were taken:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-myrna-loy-news-ph oto/50744074 -
Jrdmln — 11 years ago(March 10, 2015 07:24 PM)
I'm glad that Myrna Loy got an honorary Oscar. It is sad that she didn't win any academy awards. I think that she should at least won two academy awards for The Thin Man and Libeled Lady. She was a good actress.