Object Details
- Artist
- Alfredo Valente, 1899 - 27 Jun 1973
- Sitter
- Myrna Loy, 2 Aug 1905 - 14 Dec 1993
- Exhibition Label
- Born Radersburg, Montana
- In 1950 Myrna Loy played Lillian Moller Gilbreth in the movie version of the best-selling book Cheaper by the Dozen. She is best known, however, as the witty, sophisticated Nora Charles, who played opposite William Powell in The Thin Man film series of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1936, when Loy and Clark Gable were named the Queen and King of the Movies by a nationwide poll of moviegoers, Loy was considered to be the epitome of urbane glamour. She was one of Hollywood’s busiest and highest paid actresses until the outbreak of World War II, when she abandoned her career to work with the Red Cross. She returned to the screen in 1946 in The Best Years of Our Lives, which won the Best Picture Oscar.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- c. 1937
- Object number
- NPG.2006.76
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © The Valente Collection
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 34.3 x 26.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2")
- Mount: 48.8 x 38.1 cm (19 3/16 x 15")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Myrna Loy: Female
- Myrna Loy: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Theater\Stage actor
- Myrna Loy: Arts and Culture\Performing Arts\Film\Movie actor
- Myrna Loy: Medicine and Health\American Red Cross\Volunteer
- Myrna Loy: Performing arts awards\Academy Award
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2006.76
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm431b62d4f-20fc-4770-a439-ea88874350e8
