The Wit and Wisdom of Myrna Loy

[WI_DEM]

"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."




Challenging MGM bosses in the 1930s) "Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a court house carrying a briefcase?"




[on Ronald Reagan] "I never worked with Ronald Reagan. I'm not happy that he's President. I was willing to give him a chance. But he's destroying everything now I've lived my life for."




(on William Powell) "It was always a joy to work with Bill Powell. He was and is a dear friend, and in the early Thin Man films with Woody Van Dyke, we managed to achieve what for those days was an almost pioneering sense of spontaneity."



"It's a mystery to me why a lot of people don't want Democrats. When I was growing up, it was all Democrats. We wouldn't let a Republican in the back door."

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

2. k/r

[brush]

3. Thanks for posting this

I never new her political views. I loved her in the "Thin Man" series and now I love her even more. What a grand lady.

[Scuba]

4. Beautiful, in many ways.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Myrna Loy...how many great films was she in?

Tons. Great tribute from Julianne Moore here:

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[woo me with science]

6. She was a class act.

Died in 1993. She would cringe at so many of the things her party is doing now, under corporate infiltration.

[Blue Idaho]

7. Myrna is Right!

I still won't let a republican in the back door.

[noiretextatique]

8. lovely,smart, kind woman

thanks for sharing

[shenmue]

9. Awesome!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. Myrna Loy is a treasure.

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Edit to add Liberal Bette Davis and Betty Garrett (who was actually blacklisted).

As are Jean Arthur and Katharine Hepburn among the leading ladies of Hollywood. Liberals all. But there were many conservatives like Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Shirley Temple and Jennifer Jones (I just discovered last night)

Recently I saw this about Barbara Stanwyck, which makes her one of the most dangerous "conservatives" Hollywood ever produced.

"Political views

Stanwyck was a conservative-minded Republican along with such contemporaries as William Holden, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, George Murphy, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, and her Double Indemnity co-star, Fred McMurray. She was a fan of Ayn Rand, having persuaded Warner Bros. to buy the rights to The Fountainhead before it was a best seller and writing to the author of her admiration of Atlas Shrugged."

[madfloridian]

11. Thanks for sharing that.

She was a great actress.

[ladyVet]

12. Beautiful inside and out,

and a damned fine actress.

I am a little sad about Irene Dunne. Love her movies.

[johnp3907]

13. Love Myrna Loy!

So great to se this here!

[spanone]

14. k&r...

[book_worm]

15. What's not to love about Myrna?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. a great interview with Myrna Loy