Myrna Loy : the only good girl in Hollywood /
From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nor...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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| Summary: | From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy's rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles in the 1920s, where Loy's striking looks caught the |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 411 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520949638 0520949633 1283278189 9781283278188 |