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Myrna Loy: "Something That Made Them Trust Me"

Myrna Loy: "Something That Made Them Trust Me"

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Apr 19, 2010
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My favorite Myrna Loy story.

It's from her autobiography Being and Becoming, published in 1988. If you had never seen a single Myrna Loy movie, this book would make you forever her slave. Myrna (I hope the first name doesn't seem like lèse majesté --I love her too much to think of her as Miss Loy) put her movie career somewhat on hold during World War II…

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