Myrna Loy News

William Powell and Myrna Loy always will be remembered as the charming Nick and Nora Charles of the "Thin Man" movies.

There is perhaps no movie duo more enduring or loveable than that of William Powell and Myrna Loy, made famous and best known as Nick and Nora Charles in the Thin Man series.

Warner's chosen highlight for classic film fans this time around would have to be their Stars of The Wizard of Oz 4 DVD Collection which is made up of "Everybody Sing" with Judy Garland, "Flying High" with Bert Lahr, "George White's Scandals" with Jack Haley, and "Rosalie" with Frank Morgan.

It is hot, muggy, and miserable. Perfect movie weather. And the Brattle will help you spend the entire day in its air conditioning by showing every movie in "The Thin Man" series, a trick the theater first pulled 20 years ago.

I am pleased to announce that Laura Jacobs, the Myrna Loy to my William Powell , now has her own site up, handsomely designed by Bill Valentine , which serves as a fitting album for her new novel, The Bird Catcher .

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House stars Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Melvin Douglas.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House stars Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Melvin Douglas.

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer is another movie that pairs Cary Grant and Myrna Loy as a comedy duo.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House stars Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Melvin Douglas.

Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the day John Dillinger was gunned down in the alley outside the Biograph Theatre.

The 1935 Sam Wood movie stars Myrna Loy as Vivian Palmer and Spencer Tracy as Ross McBride.

MGM's WHEN LADIES MEET features an all-star quartet of actors -- Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall -- in an enjoyable romantic comedy-drama. Mary is an author who thinks she loves her married publisher Rogers .

I T IS well known that the last movie John Dillinger watched was Woody Van Dyke's fine, compact Manhattan Melodrama .

The very public slaying of legendary bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre in 1934 is as much a moment in the history of film as American crime.

If dinner theater is your cup of tea there are two - count 'em - two opportunities for you this month.

Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:50 p.m. Near the end of Michael Mann's new gangster drama, "Public Enemies," John Dillinger sits down in a movie theater to watch the Clark Gable/Myrna Loy gangster picture, "Manhattan Melodrama." Want to see? * 'Public Enemies,' directed by Michael Mann, ...

In " Public Enemies ," which opens today, we see a movie rarity: people in a movie actually going to a movie.

A Myrna Loy sandwich between the moustachioed Clark Gable and William Powell. According to Michael Mann's Public Enemies , it was FBI agent Melvin Purvis who set the trap that caught notorious bankrobber John Dillinger .

William Powell and Myrna Loy continue their roles as amateur sleuths Nick and Nora Charles in this 1936 crime caper.

Myrna Loy starts out as Clark Gable's mistress, ends up as William Powell's wife.