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Birthdate: August 2, 1905
Death date: December 14, 1993
Myrna Loy
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
1.7586
32
1930s
4.0000
57
1940s
3.2712
13
1950s
2.1186
4
1960s
1.6229
3
1970s
1.0878
2
1980s
0.0526
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9071
2.9071
Myrna Loy Movie Rankings
1
3.5152Three American servicemen return home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably changed by their military experience. ...more about Best Years of Our Lives
DVD from $4.86
(13 sellers)
2
3.2333Young Dorothy Wynant approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles when her inventor father appears to be a major suspect in a murder case. In fact, Dorothy is so worried about her father's guilt that she tries to convince Nick that she did it. ...more about Thin Man
DVD from $11.49
(16 sellers)
3
3.1106Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. ...more about Manhattan Melodrama
- Not Available on DVD
4
2.9823
Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary by re-enacting their first date. When Susan's meddling mother interrupts and injures herself. ...more about Love Crazy
- Not Available on DVD
5
2.9288
Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. ...more about Libeled Lady
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
6
2.8693
The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is simpler said than done. ...more about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
7
2.8446
Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into the family chateau and passes him off as a baron. ...more about Love Me Tonight
DVD from $20.95
(11 sellers)
8
2.8436
Elissa asks Nick to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and blackmailing a local criminal. David Graham claims he paid the missing husband to get rid of a former girlfriend. ...more about After the Thin Man
DVD from $37.01
(14 sellers)
9
2.8127
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. ...more about Mask of Fu Manchu
DVD from $25.55
(10 sellers)
10
2.8086
Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a day of leisure, but when they make a trip to the race track, they learn that a jockey, who was recently accused of throwing a race, has just been found shot to death. ...more about Shadow of the Thin Man
DVD from $37.01
(14 sellers)
11
2.8069
"Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr. ...more about Cheaper by the Dozen
DVD from $6.59
(13 sellers)
12
2.7695
In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's "The Farewell Murder", Nick and Nora (and their dog Asta) visit the estate of Col. MacFay, who is being threatened by a mysterious man wanting revenge for a past injustice. ...more about Another Thin Man
DVD from $37.01
(14 sellers)
13
2.7041
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. ...more about Great Ziegfeld
DVD from $7.99
(13 sellers)
14
2.7031
In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. ...more about Consolation Marriage
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.7031
Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by a speeding car which crashes into a ditch. In the car is Belle Mercer and her driver. ...more about Prizefighter and the Lady
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.6905
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L. ...more about Broadway Bill
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
17
2.6894
Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel "Martin Arrowsmith". A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. ...more about Arrowsmith
DVD from $6.33
(10 sellers)
18
2.6140
Linda Stanhope isn't jealous of beautiful Whitey Wilson, secretary to her magazine publisher husband Van ... until his mother plants the seed of doubt. ...more about Wife vs. Secretary
DVD from $11.89
(13 sellers)
19
2.6118
Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake, its unpopular, spiteful band-leader. ...more about Song of the Thin Man
DVD from $37.01
(14 sellers)
20
2.6026
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. ...more about Don Juan
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.6026
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. ...more about Third Finger
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.5970
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance. ...more about Belles on Their Toes
DVD from $6.88
(12 sellers)
23
2.5902
Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. ...more about Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
DVD from $11.64
(12 sellers)
24
2.5752
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. ...more about Parnell
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.5674
Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. ...more about Midnight Lace
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.5376
Nick and Nora Charles return home to spend time with Nick's family. But Daddy isn't pround of Nick for being a detective instead of becoming a doctor like him. Nora thinks Nick solving a case will get him respect from his Dad. ...more about Thin Man Goes Home
DVD from $37.01
(14 sellers)
27
2.5296
Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Margit has planned the wedding and the honeymoon - in fact, Margit plans everything down to what they will have for breakfast every day. ...more about Double Wedding
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.5204
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. ...more about Men in White
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.5204
Sprawling story of Prohibition set against two families and how they are affected by booze. The stories come together when two young people (Robert Young, Dorothy Jordan) join in a common fight against liquor because it has destroyed their families. ...more about Wet Parade
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.5204
Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her. ...more about Whipsaw
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.5113
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. ...more about Too Hot to Handle
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.4839
In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. ...more about Stamboul Quest
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.4748
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. ...more about Animal Kingdom
DVD from $4.99
(7 sellers)
34
2.4748
When their mother dies, Frederick Smith hires Emma Thatcher to be a nanny to his 3 children. The children grow up and Frederick becomes rich and successful. ...more about Emma
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.4154
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is. ...more about When Ladies Meet
- Not Available on DVD
37
2.4048
After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times, the film settles into 1914 France, where the Orient Express is about to be wrecked when a bridge washes out. ...more about Noah's Ark
- Not Available on DVD
38
2.4017
A racy story of Myrna, who arrives in Cairo to meet her fiance. She attracts the attention of Ramon, a conniving Arab guide who enchants rich women tourists in order to take advantage of them. ...more about Barbarian
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.3743
Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. ...more about Thirteen Women
- Not Available on DVD
40
2.3469
While alone on a cruise, upstanding, teetotal - and mean - Larry Wilson receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotten, persona of man-about-town and swindler George Carey. ...more about I Love You Again
- Not Available on DVD
41
2.2997
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. ...more about Test Pilot
- Not Available on DVD
42
2.2747
A mid-air collision involving a a small plane and a commercial jetliner leads to potential disaster, as a plane loaded with passengers and no pilot becomes the worst nightmare for a flight attendant tasked with flying the craft. ...more about Airport 1975
DVD from $12.95
(10 sellers)
43
2.2373
In the coast range mountains on the western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad of about ten, longs for a pony. ...more about Red Pony
DVD from $7.10
(9 sellers)
44
2.2236
Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Dumont helps him beat a murder rap, but Dumont just does it for the thrill of it and refuses payment. Dumont's defense of mobsters causes his firm to disown him and his girlfriend Sue to leave him. ...more about Penthouse
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.9525
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. ...more about From the Terrace
DVD from $6.89
(11 sellers)
49
1.5944
Wendell Lawson has only 6 months to live. Not wanting to live his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take his own life. ...more about End
DVD from $9.59
(11 sellers)
50
1.0501
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer. When her friend hears this intention he does his best to win her heart again. ...more about Just Tell Me What You Want
- Not Available on DVD
52
Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s and decides to conduct an experiment. She accepts a date with an American G.I. ...more about Ambassador's Daughter
- Not Available on DVD
53
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. ...more about April Fools
- Not Available on DVD
56
Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there. ...more about Black Watch
- Not Available on DVD
57
Andress, Watson and Johnson are with a Royal Air Force squadron in France. When Watson is killed in combat, Andrews tries to return the letters Watson received from a girl called "Pom-Pom. ...more about Body and Soul
- Not Available on DVD
65
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. ...more about Devil to Pay!
- Not Available on DVD
72
Steven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. ...more about Great Divide
- Not Available on DVD
80
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife. ...more about Last of the Duanes
- Not Available on DVD
82
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with men. ...more about Man-Proof
- Not Available on DVD
84
Coquettish socialite Kay Elliott (Alice White) has set her cap for Alan Ward (Paul Page), an associate in her father's law firm. ...more about Naughty Flirt
- Not Available on DVD
89
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. ...more about Rains Came
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
100
In Hungary, a prosperous and happy family of farmers take in a Gypsy girl, Nubi, when she runs away from her "cruel" master. Her fickle and seductive nature soon causes discord among the men of the household. ...more about Squall
- Not Available on DVD
102
A lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. Then the daughter enters the scene. ...more about That Dangerous Age
- Not Available on DVD
103
Ten years of married life beginning in 1925. Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...more about To Mary - with Love
- Not Available on DVD
104
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme. ...more about Topaze
- Not Available on DVD
106
Richard Carewe has raised his deceased friend's son from childhood with the help of his housekeeper and her beautiful daughter, Phyllis. ...more about Truth About Youth
- Not Available on DVD
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