This Lady was one of a kind and very talented with a great sense of humor and I've seen all of the Thinman movies 🎥 and her others were great especially Mr.Blandings builds his Dream House
Thankyou so much for posting this. So many of our beloved entertainers were still with us in the 80s, it was easy to take their presence in the world for granted. Now that they are gone having clips such as this one helps us to share their artistry and talent with those who do not know them.
She was that Lady, who could afford to act also a bit "risqué at that time. Which only very few could! And her performances always make you meet a Person with a respectful, feeling, human heart. Just watch her!
Beautiful video. I wrote a song in dedication to my wife's mom Linda who passed away. ua-cam.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/v-deo.html I put my heart and soul in this song and dedicate it to everyone who lost a loved one. Please subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you like this song. God Bless.
Beautiful video. I wrote a song in dedication to my wife's mom Linda who passed away. ua-cam.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/v-deo.html I put my heart and soul in this song and dedicate it to everyone who lost a loved one. Please subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you like this song. God Bless.
Hello there, what a gem She was. Oh, How I did 😉 enjoy Her. Loved her. Thank you for Sharing her story , She was one strong Independent woman.thank you
Please oh please post more Kennedy Center Honors from the past. If you have them I would love to see Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Paul Taylor, Jule Styne, George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Maria Tallchief, Martin Scorsese, Isaac Stern, Tennessee Williams, etc. If you haven't figured it out by now I'm very greedy! LOL!! Loving your page.
Thanks for including so much (all?) of the tribute! I've never seen Roddy's contribution before, that was lovely. I understand they were terrific friends later in her life, so that was touching.
@@rhyfeddu Loy did a few TV movies in the day, I believe her former agent was running Universal by then, who also did her Airport 1975 (there's a photo of former dancer Loy flashing a garter as she does her own stunt sliding out of the downed 747, just like she had in the opening of The Thin Man 4 decades earlier, poor Gloria Swanson had to wear a ridiculous headpiece to disguise her stunt person). Loy reunites with her Best Years of Our Lives daughter Oscar winner Teresa Wright in that (crowded!) elevator, ditto her friend & MGM co-star Melvyn Douglas in Death Takes a Holiday, also fellow MGM star Helen Hayes along with peer legends Sylvia Sidney & Mildred Natwick in Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. Loy wrote in her memoirs about running into Hayes on the flight west, they ran lines the entire time save for a dinner break, fellow passengers got free dinner theater. The quartet are a proto-Golden Girls, if you throw in a corpse & psycho rapist. She also played Blythe Danner's mother in a Columbo, who would go on to be Will Truman & Gwyneth Paltrow's mothers.
Sadly there are people in positions of influence and wealth that want that division to keep people distracted while they manufacture more wealth and think of themselves as above the law.
Before this award Mirna Loy had just published a book openly criticising Reagan and his policies. She’d been a progressive activist, especially regarding issues about race, since the 1940s. With Ms Loy, politics was everything.
Piękna pani i aktorka po latach czytałam że zmarła samotnie w domu opieki nie miała rodziny dzieci Całe życie poświęciła aktorstwu i filmowi Cześć JEJ pamięci
Kiedyś zobaczyłam Ją w polskiej Gazecie z informacją że jest w domu opieki Ona piękna kobieta piękna aktorka i piękna staruszka Starość dla kobiet jest okrotna zabiera wszystko kobiecie
There's a reason why Warhol chose Myrna Loy as part of a series on American myths...it was bc she, more than other women he painted, shattered most of them
Happy Halloween gorgeous performers that made of our lives a better place, bringing a tribute those who passed away, giving human existance a real Holy Blessing meaning, most of the times movies help a lot. Vintage productions become now the best acting lectures for young generations, learning the... know-how to manage a camera, shooting a video, having a story, seducing the audience to the point to get paid and make multi billionaire profits... yeah, anyone can do it, simply like this 😂❤🎉😂❤
@@sheilahballard1039 Ms. Loy knew all of these composers personally and many of them were guests in her home. She probably heard many of these songs before most everyone else, a great memory for her!
@@jl3322 Context. Post-WWII Myrna, Cagney & Lucy ALL accused of being Red. As someone pointed out, only thing red about them was their hair. Took Hollywood Reporter 60 yrs. to apologize.
Myrna was asked in the '40's if she would consider running for Congress, she said she didn't know enough - can we imagine ANY "celebrity" (or politician) answering with such an honest response today? Read her memoirs, ironic she's here with the Reagans who she did NOT support & apparently Trump has done to the judiciary what Nixon failed to do decades ago (& it took Nixon decades of foul play just to get into office). Her comments on race aren't just rhetoric, either, happy ending in Third Finger, Left Hand only happens because otherwise stereotypical black porter has been studying law. Myrna played judges & pilots as well as wives & mothers, 1st actress to strike for equal pay post-Thin Man. Remarkable lady.
It's a Wonderful Life was released the same year! That film should've won the Best Picture Award and James Stewart the Best Actor Award over Frederick March! The film's poor performance at the Box Office cost it!
I agree that Jimmy Stewart’s performance in Wonderful Life was spectacular, and he should indeed have won the Oscar. March was fine in Best Years, but George Bailey will forever be George Bailey - and that’s all Stewart.
Loy was a great movie star and lovely light comedienne. In 1988, however, I think there were several actresses who should have been getting a KCH before her, including Greer Garson, Olivia de Havilland, Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwycke, Loretta Young and Jean Arthur, just to name a handful.
Looking for troublesome intent where there is none. You are so busy feeling better than others but actually you are sowing division to make yourself feel better.
Myrna Loy....a Diamond forever...she shined and she still shines. ❤❤❤
I think Lillian Gish summed up this legendary lady in a nutshell: "Myrna Loy - what a joy!"
She was as close to perfect as a human being could get.
GREAT Leslie Uggams performance !
Such a talented, beautiful lady. Love her! 💗
This Lady was one of a kind and very talented with a great sense of humor and I've seen all of the Thinman movies 🎥 and her others were great especially Mr.Blandings builds his Dream House
Thankyou so much for posting this. So many of our beloved entertainers were still with us in the 80s, it was easy to take their presence in the world for granted. Now that they are gone having clips such as this one helps us to share their artistry and talent with those who do not know them.
This was my first introduction (watched on television) to Myrna Loy back in 1988 (I was 27)
Love Myrna Loy. She was wonderful. Also a loyal friend to Joan Crawford.
She had terrible taste
You don’t know what taste is.
Joan doesn't need any friends she was a horrible person and mother
@Gary Carpenter no she wasn't. Very easy to hate isn't it.
great tribute to myrna loy. I liked leslie uggams performance of the song Anything Goes
I was blown away by Leslie here. This was perfect for her.
She was that Lady, who could afford to act also a bit "risqué at that time. Which only very few could!
And her performances always make you meet a Person with a respectful, feeling, human heart.
Just watch her!
Just the best!
Thank you , thank you and thank you .
Beautiful video. I wrote a song in dedication to my wife's mom Linda who passed away. ua-cam.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/v-deo.html I put my heart and soul in this song and dedicate it to everyone who lost a loved one. Please subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you like this song. God Bless.
At least she was young enough to acknowledge the honour. When Hollywood honoured her all she could say was "thank you!"
I remember.
It is so moving.. Watching this wonderful tribute in France.
Fantastic musical, love Leslie I., and. choreography was super duper.
Beautiful video. I wrote a song in dedication to my wife's mom Linda who passed away. ua-cam.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/v-deo.html I put my heart and soul in this song and dedicate it to everyone who lost a loved one. Please subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you like this song. God Bless.
Bless you for posting this gem!
E stata l attrice piu ata da miaadre spero che la possa vedere da lassu dove si trova ormai da molti anni
God, I love Myrna Loy.
Myrna Loy forever
The first 15 or so years of this show was phenomenal. Now not so much.
Those eyes
Thank you M. Flanagan for sharing this precious documentary.
One of my favourite actors
Shame myrna never won an oscar nor was she nominated legendary actress she was
Another gem I sincerely thank you for posting. Golden gems.
Hello there, what a gem She was. Oh,
How I did 😉 enjoy
Her. Loved her.
Thank you for
Sharing her story ,
She was one strong
Independent woman.thank you
Please oh please post more Kennedy Center Honors from the past. If you have them I would love to see Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Paul Taylor, Jule Styne, George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Maria Tallchief, Martin Scorsese, Isaac Stern, Tennessee Williams, etc. If you haven't figured it out by now I'm very greedy! LOL!! Loving your page.
Add James Cagney to the list.
I just saw the tribute to Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy last night. I know there is also one for Helen Hayes and Dizzy Gillespie.
Wow Leslie is fabulous
Myrna was all that. Loved her movies and she was sexy, witty and sharp.
Just marvelous.
Thanks for including so much (all?) of the tribute! I've never seen Roddy's contribution before, that was lovely. I understand they were terrific friends later in her life, so that was touching.
They worked together @ least twice, as Loy did with Montgomery Clift as well, both actors photographed portraits of Loy.
@@unowen-nh9ov I've seen Roddy's portrait of her in his photo book. Lovely. When did he work w her? Was it a play?
@@rhyfeddu Not that I know of, they were in 1960 Doris Day thriller Midnight Lace & years later in 1974 television heist movie The Elevator.
@@unowen-nh9ov Oh, I forgot about Midnight Lace! I'll look for The Elevator. Thank you.
@@rhyfeddu Loy did a few TV movies in the day, I believe her former agent was running Universal by then, who also did her Airport 1975 (there's a photo of former dancer Loy flashing a garter as she does her own stunt sliding out of the downed 747, just like she had in the opening of The Thin Man 4 decades earlier, poor Gloria Swanson had to wear a ridiculous headpiece to disguise her stunt person). Loy reunites with her Best Years of Our Lives daughter Oscar winner Teresa Wright in that (crowded!) elevator, ditto her friend & MGM co-star Melvyn Douglas in Death Takes a Holiday, also fellow MGM star Helen Hayes along with peer legends Sylvia Sidney & Mildred Natwick in Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. Loy wrote in her memoirs about running into Hayes on the flight west, they ran lines the entire time save for a dinner break, fellow passengers got free dinner theater. The quartet are a proto-Golden Girls, if you throw in a corpse & psycho rapist. She also played Blythe Danner's mother in a Columbo, who would go on to be Will Truman & Gwyneth Paltrow's mothers.
Back when politics didn't dived our country. People can still respect one another's opinion. Those days are long gone.
What does politics have to do with this? Are u okay?
You're kidding- right ? The Nixon Era- 🇺🇲 🦖☄️ ?
Sadly there are people in positions of influence and wealth that want that division to keep people distracted while they manufacture more wealth and think of themselves as above the law.
Before this award Mirna Loy had just published a book openly criticising Reagan and his policies. She’d been a progressive activist, especially regarding issues about race, since the 1940s. With Ms Loy, politics was everything.
@russ5024 , seriously need a history lesson politics has alwsys divided the country!
I love this! Thank you for posting....
Piękna pani i aktorka po latach czytałam że zmarła samotnie w domu opieki nie miała rodziny dzieci Całe życie poświęciła aktorstwu i filmowi Cześć JEJ pamięci
Kiedyś zobaczyłam Ją w polskiej Gazecie z informacją że jest w domu opieki Ona piękna kobieta piękna aktorka i piękna staruszka Starość dla kobiet jest okrotna zabiera wszystko kobiecie
So much class. Both performances were outstanding.
There's a reason why Warhol chose Myrna Loy as part of a series on American myths...it was bc she, more than other women he painted, shattered most of them
Made them.
Happy Halloween gorgeous performers that made of our lives a better place, bringing a tribute those who passed away, giving human existance a real Holy Blessing meaning, most of the times movies help a lot. Vintage productions become now the best acting lectures for young generations, learning the... know-how to manage a camera, shooting a video, having a story, seducing the audience to the point to get paid and make multi billionaire profits... yeah, anyone can do it, simply like this 😂❤🎉😂❤
The lovely Miss Loy,
Passed away just 10 days after the recording of this Kennedy Center Honor, at 88 years young.
She died 5 years after this honor in December 1993.
No, she died during surgery after battling cancer for many years, why she accepted her Oscar @ home.
xoxo
Kathleen Turner ❤❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Nice performances...but what have they to do with Myrna loy apart from being more or less from the same era as her most famous films?
They were written by men who were her friends.
Enough to make her tear up, evidently.
Because the men who wrote the music of American entertainment thought of her as their inspiration.
@@sheilahballard1039 Ms. Loy knew all of these composers personally and many of them were guests in her home. She probably heard many of these songs before most everyone else, a great memory for her!
Kathleen Turner was a real actress and movie star. It’s a pity she struggled with her health and the assholes of Hollywood
She was a great liberal democrat
And William Powell was a great Republican. Lifelong friends. Sometimes politics doesn't matter.
@@cathydrumobich9045 It ALWAYS matters and Powell was a liberal Republican not a Trump NUT Right Wing Republican
@@jl3322 Context. Post-WWII Myrna, Cagney & Lucy ALL accused of being Red. As someone pointed out, only thing red about them was their hair. Took Hollywood Reporter 60 yrs. to apologize.
Myrna was asked in the '40's if she would consider running for Congress, she said she didn't know enough - can we imagine ANY "celebrity" (or politician) answering with such an honest response today? Read her memoirs, ironic she's here with the Reagans who she did NOT support & apparently Trump has done to the judiciary what Nixon failed to do decades ago (& it took Nixon decades of foul play just to get into office). Her comments on race aren't just rhetoric, either, happy ending in Third Finger, Left Hand only happens because otherwise stereotypical black porter has been studying law. Myrna played judges & pilots as well as wives & mothers, 1st actress to strike for equal pay post-Thin Man. Remarkable lady.
@@jl3322 ah, "right wing", ie tells the truth.
It's a Wonderful Life was released the same year! That film should've won the Best Picture Award and James Stewart the Best Actor Award over Frederick March! The film's poor performance at the Box Office cost it!
No, just no.
I agree that Jimmy Stewart’s performance in Wonderful Life was spectacular, and he should indeed have won the Oscar. March was fine in Best Years, but George Bailey will forever be George Bailey - and that’s all Stewart.
Loy was a great movie star and lovely light comedienne. In 1988, however, I think there were several actresses who should have been getting a KCH before her, including Greer Garson, Olivia de Havilland, Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwycke, Loretta Young and Jean Arthur, just to name a handful.
Half breeds? Really Kathleen?
Looking for troublesome intent where there is none. You are so busy feeling better than others but actually you are sowing division to make yourself feel better.
No, really Myrna, who played many ethnicities in her career, in fact she becomes a serial killer in 1 of them due to suffering racist abuse.
That was really odd that Kathleen said that. I’m disappointed with her.