Myrna Loy (35 page)

PLATE 16. Myrna Loy and Anna May Wong in
The Crimson City
(Warner Bros., 1928). Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PLATE 17. Myrna Loy and Maurice Chevalier in the musical
Love Me Tonight
(Paramount, 1932). Private collection.

PLATE 18. Myrna Loy
(right)
and Irene Dunne in
Thirteen Women
(RKO, 1932). Private collection.

PLATE 19. Myrna Loy in costume for her last exotic role, as Fah Lo See in
The Mask of Fu Manchu
(MGM, 1932). Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull. Private collection.

PLATE 20. Warner Baxter
(far left)
, Myrna Loy, and Charles Butterworth play cards during a break in shooting
Penthouse
(MGM, 1933) as director Woody Van Dyke
(standing)
looks on. Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PLATE 21. William Powell
(center)
, Myrna Loy, and Clark Gable in a publicity still for
Manhattan Melodrama
(MGM, 1933), Loy’s first picture with Powell. Private collection.

PLATE 22. Ad for
The Thin Man
(MGM, 1934), the movie that made William Powell and Myrna Loy, as Nick and Nora Charles, one of Hollywood’s iconic acting teams. Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PLATE 23. Nora Charles disguised herself as a man to search a warehouse in a scene that was cut from
The Thin Man
. Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PLATE 24. George Hurrell shot this portrait of Myrna Loy in 1932, soon after she signed with MGM. Private collection.

PLATE 25. Portrait of Myrna Loy by Ted Allan, 1934. Private collection.

PLATE 26. Cary Grant and Myrna Loy confer with Amelia Earhart
(center)
on the set of
Wings in the Dark
(Paramount, 1935). Private collection.

PLATE 27. Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy, costars in
Whipsaw
(MGM, 1935). Private collection.

PLATE 28. Myrna Loy and William Powell being filmed in
Escapade
(MGM, 1935) shortly before Loy left the movie to go on strike against the studio. Director Robert Z. Leonard is standing, in dark suit. Photographer Ernest Haller is seated, with arms on knees. Private collection.