| Authors: |
Leider, Emily Wortis.
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Loy, Myrna,1905-1993.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. |
| Description: |
xi, 411 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780520253209 0520253205 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- The climb -- Not your typical Helena girl -- Life without father -- Enter Myrna Loy -- Warner Bros.' exotic vixen -- Breakthrough -- Cutting the veil -- Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man -- Myrna Loy vs. MGM -- Mrs. Arthur Hornblow Jr. -- Wife vs. mistress -- Trouble -- Things fall apart -- Rebound -- Postwar -- Breaking away -- Mrs. Howland Sargeant -- New York ending. |