Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To (1990)

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

1990

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Richard Schickel

Cast

Al Jolson as (archive footage)

Cary Grant as (archive footage)

Clark Gable as (archive footage)

Dolores Costello as (archive footage)

G. Larry Butler as Narrator (voice)

Henry Fonda as (archive footage)

Kathleen Turner as Self - Host

Melvyn Douglas as (archive footage)