Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

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Release date: June 04, 1990
Duration: 46 minutes
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Overview

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.

Starring

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Kathleen Turner
Self - Host
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G. Larry Butler
Narrator (voice)
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Myrna Loy
(archive footage)
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Warner Baxter
(archive footage)
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Dolores Costello
(archive footage)