Hollywood (1937)

Hollywood Spotlights Myrna Loy's Hand Carved Career! Myrna Loy is a sculptress. She is also a painter. And she can play the piano. As a dancer she has few equals and still fewer superiors in all Hollywood. Which gives you a few ideas of her talents outside the field of acting, where any comment would be superfluous. But Myrna's greatest piece of sculpturing has not been in the field of marble or plaster. It has been in the shaping of her own life and career to the point where she stands out as the envy of other women the world over. The Loy she has moulded in the flesh will remain a monument to the determination of a little girl, from the cattle plains of Montana, who early in life promised herself to make good in Hollywood and who fulfilled that promise to the very letter. When you see her in After the Thin Man or in Parnell, her two latest films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, you will not be viewing a child of destiny. You will be seeing a great actress created through her own efforts and spirit. Let's look back over the years and see how all this has happened. It is interesting and not a little bit inspiring. Perhaps there is a formula which will help others mould their own careers and then fight through the maze of entanglements which seem to be a necessary part in any battle for success. The record shows that a Myrna Williams came into the world at Helena, Montana, about 31 years ago. "Myrna Williams?" you ask. Yes, Myrna Williams. Her family was a typical American one, with the tang of Scotland's heather fields in its ancestry. Down the street, a few doors, lived another family, named Cooper. A son, Gary, was Here is Myrna Loy (right) with her husband, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., end Sharon Lynne as seen by cameraman at a Hollywood preview Charming Myrna Loy as she appears today after a decade of transition from half-caste to the ultimate of modern sophistication. Out of the chrysalis of past effort she emerges the envy of many women the world over destined to achieve great fame in the cinema, but in those days he was just a little shaver playing tag with the other kids in the same block. The fact that Gary Cooper lived in the same block has absolutely nothing to do with this story. It is merely an interesting commentary. It is doubtful if either Gary or Myrna can remember the other and in Hollywood they have had nothing more than a nodding friendship. All of which helps to prove that the world is a strange place, after all. Modeling Came First When the mother was widowed, she decided that she would go to California with her two children, Myrna and David. That was how Myrna Williams happened to become a model. All by accident, but undoubtedly it had much to do with hei future. Venice is a beach suburb of Los Angeles. [Continued on page 70] It is a far cry from the Myrna Loy of a dozen years ago, when she was cast as an Oriental, to the glamorous film star of 1937 27