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Myrna Loy Biography
Birth Name:Myrna Adele Williams
Birth Place:Radersburg, Montana, United States
Profession Actress, Soundtrack
Fast Facts
- In 1979, she won the National Board of Review Career Achievement Award
- In 1983, she received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Career Achievement Award
- In 1988, she received a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievment Award
- In 1936, she got married to producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr
- Started performing at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre at the age of 18
- Once worked as an advisor to the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing
- Was one of the founding members of the American Place Theatre
Awards
- 1933Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (August): winner
- 1934Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (August): winner
- 1935Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
- 1935Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
- 1936Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (April): winner
- 1936Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (June): winner
- 1936Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (October): winner
- 1936Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (December): winner
- 1937Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (February): winner
- 1937Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (December): winner
- 1938Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (March): winner
- 1938Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (June): winner
- 1938Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (December): winner
- 1939Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (November): winner
- 1940Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
- 1941Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (January): winner
- 1948Photoplay Award-Best Performances of the Month (July): winner