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- Dec. 27, 1993: Died:Myrna Loy
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. MYRNA LOY, 88, movie star; in New York City. Loy's wry
- blend of intellect and sensuality made her the "Queen of the
- Movies" in the late '30s, and she could count both Franklin
- D. Roosevelt and John Dillinger among her fans. Rudolph Valentino
- discovered Loy in 1925, and in her first roles in the silents,
- she improbably played a series of Asian vamps and villains.
- Herbreakthrough role was Nora Charles, wife and soul mate of
- William Powell's tippling, crime-solving Nick Charles in 1934's
- The Thin Man--a B movie that became an unexpected hit. Loy
- and Powell made six Thin Man films. They established Loy's image
- as "the perfect wife": witty, beautiful and a good sport. Perhaps
- her greatest roles came when she was middle-aged--in the social
- comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House with Cary Grant
- (1948) and in The Best Years of Our Lives, the 1946 drama about
- veterans returning home from World War II. In 1991 Loy received
- an honorary Academy Award.
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