Oral history interview with Myrna Loy, 1959.

Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

Career in silent films, "Don Juan," 1926; transition to sound, "Desert Song," 1929; typecast as Oriental villainess, late 1920s and early 1930s; "The Thin Man," 1934: effect on career; suspension from Metro-Goldwyn, Mayer, effect of publicity; Red Cross World War II; "Best Years of Our Lives," 1946; UNESCO, 1945-59; political climate of Hollywood 1940s and 1950s and its effects; impressions of John Barrymore, Frank Capra, W.S. Van Dyke, Louis B. Mayer, others

Subjects

• Actresses--Interviews.
• American Red Cross.
• Communism and motion pictures.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Loy, Myrna, 1905-1993--Interviews.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.
• Unesco.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.