Sally Phillips on Hollywood star Myrna Loy

Great Lives

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History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When Sally Phillips first saw Myrna Loy, she burst into tears. It was in a film called The Best Years of Our Lives, about three veterans returning to their wives after World War Two. Myrna Loy was most famous for the Thin Man series, and she also played voluptuous baddies in flicks like The Mask of Fun Manchu. But it's not just her screen career that inspires Sally, a star herself for work in Smack the Pony and Bridget Jones. Myrna Loy was a hardworking and often fearless person, heavily involved with The Red Cross and UNESCO after the war. The author of Fast Talking Dames, Maria di Battista, joins the discussion from Princeton. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde

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0:45.0	Right guests, let's go, let's go.
0:47.0	Mernaloy was an American star, sophisticated, witty, smart,
0:55.0	Murna started in silent film and years later at her height was Queen of the
1:00.0	movies promoted by her studio as The Dream Wife.
1:04.0	Well, we'll find out what her nominator thinks of that in a while.
1:07.9	Her paternal grandfather was Welsh.
1:10.4	He'd left Liverpool on a boat for the United States in 1856 and settled in Montana.
1:17.0	His granddaughter, Murner, received an honorary Academy Award in 1991, pets quite a journey, and helping us travel it is the actress Sally Phillips,
1:27.0	star of Smack the Pony, Green Wing, Bridget Jones, plus Claire in the Community here on Radio 4, a clip of which we're going to hear now.
1:36.5	I think Sally, you're getting ready here to say goodbye to the family nanny, play the tape.
1:41.8	Yeah, I expect there be quite a few people that you'll miss A Nali.
1:46.0	Oh yes quite a few such as I will miss Thomas. Yes Thomas of course yes.
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