Guest blogger Miguel Rodriguez reviews the new biography of actress Myrna Loy, "Myrna Loy ... to her star-making turn in "The Thin Man," to her ardent work as an activist for The Red Cross ...

Myrna Loy would act in major films until her 70's. But she was also known for her commitment to humanitarian work. “That was her working for the Red Cross in WWII," he said of a photo on the ...

“Our girl,” Myrna, later known as Myrna Loy, was born in Helena, Aug. 2, 1905, ... She interrupted her career during World War II to work with the Red Cross.

Proud of her work with the Red Cross, the United Nations mission, and UNESCO, she championed artists as ambassadors of peace. Leider’s portrait nicely details Myrna Loy as not only a movie star ...

Myrna Loy was born Myrna Williams in Radersburg, Montana, ... Loy served with the American Red Cross, and later served as a representative to the United Nations Educational, ...

While Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy both grew up in and around Helena and both their fathers were involved in state politics, ... she volunteered with the Red Cross and afterward with UNESCO.

Myrna Loy made marriage magic. Sizzling, even. Before her, happy marriages must have existed, but Hollywood didn`t know what to do with them. There was a kiss at the altar and ”The End”… ...

U nderstated, high-minded, well-mannered, Myrna Loy was much like the great comedic characters she played in the movies. ... mostly for the American Red Cross. After the war, ...

Myrna Loy was a hardworking and often fearless person, heavily involved with The Red Cross and UNESCO after the war. The author of Fast Talking Dames, Maria di Battista, joins the discussion from ...

Loy died in 1993 at age 88. But admirers hope that she will watch over the students of Venice High for decades more as a vandal- resistant bronze protected by thorny rosebushes.

Regular readers of P & P know that I adore Myrna Loy, the great star of the ’30s and ’40s in such films as “The Best Years Of Our Lives” and the sublime “Thin Man” series. (I love her ...