Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Witty, warm, sexy and sophisticated.
1990-06-04 | 46 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Kathleen TurnerSelf - Host
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G. Larry ButlerNarrator (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)
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Melvyn Douglas(archive footage)
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Henry Fonda(archive footage)
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Clark Gable(archive footage)
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Cary Grant(archive footage)
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Al Jolson(archive footage)
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Boris Karloff(archive footage)
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Jeanette MacDonald(archive footage)
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Fredric March(archive footage)
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Frank Morgan(archive footage)
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Noel Neill(archive footage)
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Emory Parnell(archive footage)
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William Powell(archive footage)
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Nancy Reagan(archive footage)
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Ronald Reagan(archive footage)
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Rin-Tin-Tin(archive footage)
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