Tag: Myrna Loy
January 15, 2021 /

Hello! Is that you?

Honey, you’re looking great. What an ordeal this has been. Four years culminating in… Hold on. We’ve made it this far. Let’s step into the light. In a few short days things will start to change. My aim in podcasting my novel has been to entertain until that change comes.…

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December 19, 2020 /

Episode 30. Every star I know in Hollywood acknowledges the same fact. With luck you can climb. Without it, your brakes don’t work even when you coast.

November 26, 2020 /

Favorite search term for this website? Hollywood old smooch (!)

Listen my angels, it’s been a hell of a year. On this Thanksgiving I wish you happiness and peace and hope. And most of all — I wish you love.  
December 31, 2017 /

As the old year greets the still slumbering new…

  It seems we must be reawakened to the challenges of living civilly. The 1920s, when this picture of Myrna Loy was taken, was a time similar in many ways to our own. It was an era of startling innovation, ushering in the dawn of a youth culture dubbed The…

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August 30, 2017 /

She was absolutely beautiful, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen…

October 31, 2016 /

Happy Halloween from Myrna Loy and Beguiling Hollywood

January 30, 2015 /

Time to toughen up, Princess!

Hello angelic ones, Pictured above is Myrna Loy, glamorous? Undoubtedly. Comfortable? Well let’s see, her eyes are taped, she has a twenty pound headdress on, she probably spent four hours in makeup, and that heavily brocaded and sparkling gown looks – itchy. So, in answer to my own question –…

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December 14, 2014 /

Myrna Loy with either Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, or Blitzen

November 28, 2013 /

Black Friday can kiss my… Myrna Loy and William Powell – having a good breakfast

July 6, 2013 /

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN – NICK AND NORA – THE THIN MAN (1929) – BY DASHIELL HAMMETT

NORA: How do you feel? NICK: Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober.