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the MENDING of
Her exotic screen women threatened to "get" Miss Loy until Ramon Novarro
lent her his new home for recuperation — and then came the rumors!
PLATONIC love is impossible in Hollywood, they say. Yes? "They" don't know that a man's understanding friendship helped to save a girl from becoming the victim of her own unnatural screen creation.
"They" chatter glibly of a romance between Myrna Loy and Ramon Novarro, because during Ramon's absence abroad Myrna occupied his new home.
Myrna counters laughingly, "All I know is what I read in the papers !" He is amused when questioned.
Fortunately, each has a sense of humor and neither is disturbed by gossip. So the} kid the kidders, although the real story is not one to be lightly or unsympathetically told.
For eight years Myrna has given herself forcefully to portraying exotic screen women. Her life, excepting one interlude, has centered in her career. While other actresses dash to Furope, she has not even had a trip to New York. Contracts prevented. Her only free-lance period occurred during the transition to the talkies, when it was dangerous to leave the battlefield. Her longest vacation was two weeks spent in bed to bolster her ebbing strength. When she goes to Glendale it's an event, and then in line of duty to attend a preview.
Her job of entertaining you with alluring, unreal shadowwomen has cost her dearly. To comprehend its drain upon her, one must realize how one of her nervous intensity concentrates and gives of emotion and of mind. Her father died after a long illness resulting from frayed nerves. It is her inherited temperament to become absorbed in one purpose.
When Natascha Rambova introduced her in an exotic role, Myrna determined to develop an odd screen individuality. She slanted her eyebrows, gave her mouth a more sensual curve. She costumed her bizarre roles sensationally, hinting at mystery.
She gave her days to work and script study, and rushes, to fittings and hairdressings,
Myrna has worked for eight
years without even a vacation
trip East. Frayed nerves were
the penalty.