TRIBUTE TO MYRNA LOY (original) (raw)
Movies|TRIBUTE TO MYRNA LOY
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- Jan. 16, 1985
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Two seven-foot Academy Award statuettes, the same that are seen on Hollywood's Oscar telecast each year, were among the famous figures at Carnegie Hall last night as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences paid tribute to the smart, sophisticated screen style of Myrna Loy.
Looking frail but glamorous in a spangled gown, the 79-year-old actress, whose career spans more than six decades, watched from a seat in the auditorium's first tier as she was lauded by colleagues including Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, Lena Horne and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Film clips showcased her work from the early feature ''Show of Shows,'' in which she appears as a coquettish Oriental dancer, to the television program ''Love Sidney'' and with plenty of ''Thin Man'' excerpts in between.
Later on, the audience of 2,800 watched the East Coast premiere of a restored version of ''The Animal Kingdom,'' a 1932 film featuring Miss Loy and recently rediscovered in the vaults at Warner Brothers.
Lauren Bacall, who served as co- chairman of the Tribute Benefit Committee with Frank G. Mancuso, president of Paramount Pictures, also appeared as master of ceremonies.
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''How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March?'' she asked the audience. ''Only one: Myrna Loy. And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in 'Manhattan Melodrama.' ''
Her remarks, along with those of Burt Reynolds, Sylvia Sidney, Sidney Lumet, Robert Mitchum, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teresa Wright, Maureen Stapleton, Harold Russell and Tony Randall, were written by the veteran screenwriting team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
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