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The Thin Man Nora Charles

(1934)

The Best Years of Our Lives Milly Stephenson

(1946)

Libeled Lady Connie Allenbury

(1936)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Muriel Blandings

(1948)

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Actress (142 credits)

1982 Love, Sidney (TV Series)
Vera Lonnigan

- Sidney and the Actress (1982) ... Vera Lonnigan

1981 Summer Solstice (TV Movie)
Margaret

1980 Just Tell Me What You Want
Stella Liberti

1980 Where Do You Hide the Sun?

1978/I The End
Maureen Lawson

1977 Ants! (TV Movie)
Ethel

1974 Airport 1975
Mrs. Devaney

1974 The Elevator (TV Movie)
Amanda Kenyon

1974 Indict and Convict (TV Movie)
Judge Christine Tayloy

1973 Ironside (TV Series)
Andrea Wollcott

- All About Andrea (1973) ... Andrea Wollcott

1972 The Couple Takes a Wife (TV Movie)
Barbara's Mother

1972 Columbo (TV Series)
Lizzy Fielding

- Étude in Black (1972) ... Lizzy Fielding

1971 Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (TV Movie)
Evelyn Tryon

1971 Death Takes a Holiday (TV Movie)
Selena Chapman

1969 The April Fools
Grace Greenlaw

1968 Thalath Nessa

1967 The Virginian (TV Series)
Mrs. Miles

- Lady of the House (1967) ... Mrs. Miles

1967 Family Affair (TV Series)
Adele

- A Helping Hand (1967) ... Adele

1960 Midnight Lace
Aunt Bea

1960 From the Terrace
Martha Eaton

1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series)
Mary Sidney

- Surprise Party (1960) ... Mary Sidney

1959 Meet Me in St. Louis (TV Movie)
Mrs. Anna Smith

1958 Lonelyhearts
Florence Shrike

1957 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
Nancy Knox

- No Second Helping (1957) ... Nancy Knox

1955-1957 General Electric Theater (TV Series)
Allie Evans / Maggie Webster / Kate Kennedy

- Love Came Late (1957) ... Allie Evans

- Lady of the House (1957) ... Maggie Webster

- It Gives Me Great Pleasure (1955) ... Kate Kennedy

1956 Kilometer 99

1956 The Ambassador's Daughter
Mrs. Cartwright

1952 Belles on Their Toes
Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth

1950 Cheaper by the Dozen
Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth

1949 If This Be Sin
Lady Cathy Brooke

1949 The Red Pony
Alice Tiflin

1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Muriel Blandings

1947 The Senator Was Indiscreet
Mrs. Ashton (Cameo Appearance) (uncredited)

1947 Song of the Thin Man
Nora Charles

1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Judge Margaret Turner

1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
Milly Stephenson

1946 So Goes My Love
Jane Budden Maxim

1944 The Thin Man Goes Home
Nora Charles

1941 Shadow of the Thin Man
Nora Charles

1941 Love Crazy
Susan Ireland

1940 Third Finger, Left Hand
Margot Sherwood Merrick

1940 I Love You Again
Kay Wilson

1939 Another Thin Man
Nora Charles

1939 The Rains Came
Lady Edwina Esketh

1939 Lucky Night
Cora Jordan

1938 Too Hot to Handle
Alma Harding

1938 Test Pilot
Ann Thurston Barton

1938 Man-Proof
Mimi Swift

1937 Double Wedding
Margit Agnew

1937 Parnell
Katie

1936 After the Thin Man
Nora Charles

1936 Libeled Lady
Connie Allenbury

1936 To Mary - with Love
Mary Wallace

1936 The Great Ziegfeld
Billie Burke

1936 Petticoat Fever
Irene Campton

1936 Wife vs. Secretary
Linda Stanhope

1935 Whipsaw
Vivian Palmer

1935 Wings in the Dark
Sheila Mason

1934 Broadway Bill
Alice Higgins - aka The Princess

1934 Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice

1934 Stamboul Quest
Annemarie aka Fräulein Doktor and Helena Bohlen

1934 The Thin Man
Nora Charles

1934 Manhattan Melodrama
Eleanor

1934 Men in White
Laura

1933 The Prizefighter and the Lady
Belle

1933 Night Flight
Wife of Brazilian Pilot

1933 Penthouse
Gertie Waxted

1933 When Ladies Meet
Mary Howard

1933 The Barbarian
Diana Standing

1933 Scarlet River
Myrna Loy (uncredited)

1933/I Topaze
Coco

1932 The Animal Kingdom
Cecelia Henry Collier

1932 The Mask of Fu Manchu
Fah Lo See

1932 Thirteen Women
Ursula Georgi

1932 Love Me Tonight
Countess Valentine

1932 New Morals for Old
Myra

1932 The Woman in Room 13
Sari Loder

1932 The Wet Parade
Eileen Pinchon

1932 Vanity Fair
Becky Sharp

1932 Emma
Countess Isabelle

1931 Arrowsmith
Mrs. Joyce Lanyon

1931 Consolation Marriage
Elaine Brandon

1931 Skyline
Paula Lambert

1931 Transatlantic
Kay Graham (as Mirna Loy)

1931 Rebound
Evangeline (Evie) Lawrence

1931 Hush Money
Flo Curtis

1931 A Connecticut Yankee
Queen Morgan le Fay / Evil Sister in Mansion

1931 Body and Soul
Alice Lester

1930 The Devil to Pay!
Mary

1930 The Naughty Flirt
Linda Gregory

1930 Rogue of the Rio Grande
Carmita

1930 The Truth About Youth
Kara aka The Firefly

1930 Renegades
Eleanore

1930 The Bad Man

1930 The Jazz Cinderella
Mildred Vane

1930 The Last of the Duanes
Lola Bland

1930 Bride of the Regiment
Sophie

1930 Cock o' the Walk
Narita

1930 Under a Texas Moon
Lolita Romero

1930 Isle of Escape
Moira

1930 Cameo Kirby
Lea

1929 Show of Shows
Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'Chinese Fantasy' Numbers

1929 Evidence
Native Girl

1929 The Great Divide
Manuella

1929 The Squall
Nubi

1929 The Black Watch
Yasmani

1929 The Desert Song
Azuri

1929 Hardboiled Rose
Rose Duhamel

1929 Fancy Baggage
Myrna

1928 Noah's Ark
Dancer / Slave Girl

1928 The Midnight Taxi
Gertie Fairfax

1928 State Street Sadie
Sadie

1928 Pay as You Enter
Yvonne De Russo

1928 The Crimson City
Isobel

1928 Turn Back the Hours
Tiza Torreon

1928 A Girl in Every Port
Jetta - Girl in Singapore (uncredited)

1928 Beware of Married Men
Juanita Sheldon

1927 If I Were Single
Joan Whitley

1927 Ham and Eggs at the Front
Fifi

1927 The Girl from Chicago
Mary Carlton

1927 The Jazz Singer
Chorus Girl (uncredited)

1927 A Sailor's Sweetheart
Claudette Ralston

1927 The Heart of Maryland
Mulatta

1927 Simple Sis
Edith Van

1927 The Climbers
Countess Veya

1927 Bitter Apples
Belinda White

1927 When a Man Loves
Convict Behind Manon (uncredited)

1927 Finger Prints
Vamp

1926 The Third Degree
Bit Part (uncredited)

1926 Across the Pacific
Roma

1926 Don Juan
Mai - Lady in Waiting

1926 So This Is Paris
Lalle's Maid

1926 Exquisite Sinner
Living statue

1926 The Gilded Highway
Inez Quartz

1926 Why Girls Go Back Home
Sally Short

1926 The Love Toy
Bit Part (uncredited)

1926 The Caveman
Maid

1925 What Price Beauty?
Vamp

1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Slave Girl (uncredited)

1925 Sporting Life
Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)

1925 The Wanderer
Girl at Baccanal (uncredited)

1925 Pretty Ladies
Showgirl (uncredited)

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Soundtrack (18 credits)

1952 Belles on Their Toes (performer: "Love's Old Sweet Song (Just a Song at Twilight)", "When You Wore a Tulip (and I Wore a Big Red Rose)")

1949 The Red Pony (performer: "Marche Militaire" (1818), "Shall We Gather at the River?" (1864) - uncredited)

1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (performer: "Home on the Range" - uncredited)

1940 Third Finger, Left Hand ("Over the Rainbow" (1939), uncredited) / (performer: "The Riddle" (1940) - uncredited)

1939 Another Thin Man (performer: "Adios Muchachos (I Get Ideas)" (1927) - uncredited)

1938 Test Pilot (performer: "The Prisoner's Song (If I Had the Wings of an Angel)" (1924) - uncredited)

1938 Man-Proof ("On a Sunday Afternoon" (1935), uncredited) / (performer: "On a Sunday Afternoon" (1935) - uncredited)

1936 Wife vs. Secretary (performer: "Thank You for a Lovely Evening" (1934) - uncredited)

1934 Broadway Bill (performer: "Split-Pea Soup and Succotash" - uncredited)

1934 Evelyn Prentice (performer: "Lullaby (Wiegenlied)" (1868) - uncredited)

1933 The Prizefighter and the Lady (performer: "Downstream Drifter" (1933) - uncredited)

1933 When Ladies Meet (performer: "I Love But Thee (Jeg elsker Dig!)" (1864) - uncredited)

1933 The Barbarian ("Love Songs of the Nile")

1932 Love Me Tonight (performer: "The Son of a Gun Is Nothing But a Tailor" (1932) - uncredited)

1931 Rebound (performer: "Same Thing Over Again" (1931), "There's No Use Trying to Give Me the Air" - uncredited)

1930 The Truth About Youth (performer: "Playing Around" (1930), "I Have to Have You" (1929) - uncredited)

1929 Show of Shows (performer: "What's Become of the Floradora Boys?", "Li-Po-Li" (1929) - uncredited)

1929 The Squall (performer: "Gypsy Charmer" (1929) - uncredited)

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Self (43 credits)

2000 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (TV Special)
Self (uncredited)

1991 The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Honorary Award Recipient

1988 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special)
Self - Honoree

1988 CBS This Morning (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 5 December 1988 (1988) ... Self

1985 The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (TV Special)
Self - Honoree

1983 The Legends of the Screen (TV Movie)
Self

1982 The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (TV Movie)
Self

1982 Night of 100 Stars (TV Special)
Self

1981 Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice' (TV Short documentary)
Self

1965-1980 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Self / Self - Guest

- Episode dated 21 October 1980 (1980) ... Self - Guest

- Myrna Loy, Nipsey Russell, Alex Dreier, Jerry West, Army Archerd, Joyce Haber, Marilyn Beck (1970) ... Self

- Myrna Loy, Ethel Griffies, Salvador Dali, Dick Lord, George Carlin, Jean-Paul Vignon (1965) ... Self

1971-1980 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest / Self - Actress

- Episode #19.105 (1980) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #19.87 (1980) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #12.162 (1973) ... Self - Actress

- Episode #10.235 (1971) ... Self - Actress

1978 The Bob Braun Show (TV Series)
Self - Actress

- Episode dated 9 June 1978 (1978) ... Self - Actress

1976 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler (TV Special documentary)
Self

1975 The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (TV Movie)
Self

1974 ABC Late Night (TV Series)
Self

- That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM (1974) ... Self

1974 Day at Night (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Myrna Loy (1974) ... Self - Guest

1972 The Movie Game (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 7 February 1972 (1972) ... Self

1970 Philbin's People (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.36 (1970) ... Self

1970 The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1969 The David Frost Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #2.76 (1969) ... Self - Guest

1969 Omnibus (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Myrna Loy (1969) ... Self

1968 The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #2.241 (1968) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #2.178 (1968) ... Self - Guest

1967 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode dated 12 June 1967 (1967) ... Self - Guest

1967 The 32nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1967 The Linkletter Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 12 January 1967 (1967) ... Self

1962 Here's Hollywood (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.216 (1962) ... Self

1961 The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #4.62 (1961) ... Self - Guest

1960 I've Got a Secret (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode dated 30 November 1960 (1960) ... Self - Guest

1960 Gala Adlai on Broadway (TV Special)
Self - Performer

1960 Celebrity Talent Scouts (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 29 August 1960 (1960) ... Self

1960 What's My Line? (TV Series)
Self - Mystery Guest

- Myrna Loy (1960) ... Self - Mystery Guest

1959 The George Gobel Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #5.8 (1959) ... Self - Guest

1957 The Arlene Francis Show (TV Series)
Self - Actress

- Episode #1.54 (1957) ... Self - Actress

1957 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
Self

- Myrna Loy, Jackie Cooper, Cleo the basset hound, Tommy Noonan, Lord Flea (1957) ... Self

1956 This Is Your Life (TV Series)
Self

- Myrna Loy (1956) ... Self

1949 Die Stimme Österreichs (Short)
Self

1943 Show-Business at War (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1939 Verdensberømtheder i København (Short)
Self

1938 Another Romance of Celluloid (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1937 The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1936 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1930 Fashion News (Documentary short)
Self (1928, 1930)

1925 1925 Studio Tour (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

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Archive footage (53 credits)

2019 The Movies (TV Series documentary)
Self

- The Golden Age (2019) ... Self

2016 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (Documentary)
Self

2011 Stars of the Silver Screen (TV Series)
Self

- Clark Gable (2011) ... Self (uncredited)

2011 These Amazing Shadows (Documentary)
Milly Stephenson (clip from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)) (uncredited)

2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV Movie documentary)

2004-2009 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Hollywood Chinese (2009)

- Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004) ... Self

2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TV Movie documentary)
Gertie Waxted

2007 California's Golden Parks (TV Series documentary)
Alma Harding

- Leo Carrillo Ranch (2007) ... Alma Harding

2007 Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (Documentary)
Self

2006 Screen Goddesses (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Myrna Loy (2006) ... Self

2005 William Powell: A True Gentleman (Video short)

2004 Robert Capa: The Man Who Believed His Own Legend (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2003 Complicated Women (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1998 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Myrna Loy: A Class by Herself (1998) ... Self

1998 Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1997 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1996 American Experience (TV Series documentary)
Self

- The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) ... Self (uncredited)

1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1994 That's Entertainment! III (Documentary)
Diana 'Di' Standing (uncredited)

1994 The 66th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Memorial Tribute

1993 Myrna Loy Remembered (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1993 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series)
Self / Various roles

- Episode dated 15 December 1993 (1993) ... Self / Various roles

1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self

1991 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1991 The Republic Pictures Story (TV Movie documentary)
Alice Tiflin (clip from The Red Pony (1949)) (uncredited)

1990 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1987 Moonlighting (TV Series)
Nora Charles

- Tale in Two Cities (1987) ... Nora Charles (uncredited)

1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Hosted by Johnny Carson (TV Movie)
Nora Charles (clip from After the Thin Man (1936))

1986 The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1982 Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (TV Movie documentary)
Actress - Unidentified 'Thin Man' Film (uncredited)

1978 Remember Me
Self

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary)
Nora

1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary)
Self

1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary)
Self - film clips (uncredited)

1971 The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series)
Self

- Gov. Ronald Reagan/Bob Newhart/James Wong Howe (1971) ... Self

1965 Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary)
Self

1965 Inside Daisy Clover
Self (uncredited)

1965 The Love Goddesses (Documentary)
Self

1964 The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary)
Nora Charles

1963-1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary)
Self / Carmita (clip from Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930))

- The Wild and Wonderful Thirties (1964) ... Self (uncredited)

- The Fabulous Musicals (1963) ... Self

- They Went That-a-way (1963) ... Carmita (clip from Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930))

1961 The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (Video documentary)
Self

1955 Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (Documentary short)
Self

1955 Some of the Greatest (Short)
Ming

1951 The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (Documentary)

1944 Twenty Years After (Short)

1940 The Miracle of Sound (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1940 Trifles of Importance (Short)
Self (uncredited)

1940 Hollywood: Style Center of the World (Documentary short)
Self

1940 Northward, Ho! (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1939 From the Ends of the Earth (Documentary short)
Self

1937 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (Documentary short)
Self

1937 The Romance of Celluloid (Short)
Margit Agnew

1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (Documentary short)
Self

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Radio: Appeared (as "Nora Charles") in a "Lux Radio Theatre" broadcast of "After the Thin Man". See more »

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Alternate Names:

Mirna Loy

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)

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[on changing the direction of her career in the 1930s] I finally got fired because they ran out of hussies to play. See more »

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Good friend of Princess Marina. See more »

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Early in her career, often played sexy, unpredictable party girls See more »

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The Perfect Wife See more »

Star Sign:

Leo

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