Myrna Loy

When I watched this movie as a teen, my dad came in the room and watched it with me. He said when he was a kid he had a crush on Myrna Loy. Years later after he passed, I told my mom. She mentioned that he must have modernized his tastes - in later years he had a crush on Meg Ryan (!).

Anyway, my main recommendation would be:
The Best Years of our Lives (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/)
The movie is about the social and financial struggles of men coming back from the service in WW2. It's a top notch movie and won many Oscars I believe. Ms. Loy plays a mature wife trying to keep her returning husband and wayward daughter on the right track.

Although I have not seen them, I have heard good things about her appearance in:
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039169/)
Cheaper by the Dozen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042327/)

And if you'd like to see her earlier work, she was mainly known for the many Thin Man detective movies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025878/).

Hope that helps.

I heartily recommend you watch "The Rains Came" (1939). Great early disaster film with great special effects (earthquake, flood, destruction, etc.) which still look impressive even today. Myrna Loy was great in this, too. She had many memorable lines of dialogue. You MUST see this film!

And, if you love Myrna Loy, you must, simply MUST, see "Thirteen Women" (1932) in which she plays a half-caste Hindu woman hell-bent on revenge against former schoolmate girls who shunned her because of her ethnicity. Quite an odd film, and a real eye-popper even today. Here's the plot summary page that tells more of the plot:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023582/plotsummary


I have no idea how or where you could find these films for rent in the UK, but I know that "Thirteen Women" is available for purchase through Warner Archives Collection. http://www.wbshop.com/product/code/1000276091.do
And, I believe you can actually watch "The Rains Came" in its entirety (broken up into 12 segments) on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kZXlZRB1fY&feature=results_video&a mp;playnext=1&list=PLBC94EF7873E685D1

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Hope you get this in time - TCM is having a Myrna Loy marathon on Thursday 8/02/12, including many of these movies that have been mentioned.

She's absolutely charming. And she had a very musical speaking-voice.

"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified."

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SHE'S GREAT

Tremendous in the The Thin Man series of films with William Powell.

She's not Chinese though.