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Category - Non Fiction / Performing Arts
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 2 months ago
Views - 24
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Oct 1987
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First edition hardcover with book sleeve.  The actress Myrna Loy looks back on her career as a Hollywood star who appeared in over 125 movies, including The Best Years of Our Lives and The Thin Man She begins her story in Montana and tells how she came to Hollywood where her talent for dancing and her personal charm soon made her very popular; Jimmy Stewart declared "There ought to be a law against any man who doesn't marry Myrna Loy". She tells of the friendships she made with many of her leading men and with women such as Joan Crawford whom she met as a youngster in a chorus line and Eleanor Roosevelt, whose President husband had a well-known crush on Myrna. Myrna Loy was not only an actress but also a woman who had political interests, championing the UN and Democratic presidential candidates from Truman onward, and was even for a time a "Washington wife". In her memoirs she presents a personal analysis of post-war politics up to and including Ronald Reagan.
Overview
Myrna Loy: On Being and Becoming
ISBN: 9780394555935
Publisher Description
The actress recalls her long, rich, and varied career in Hollywood, on the stage, and as a political activist.
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