Manhattan Melodrama
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Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film, produced by MGM and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, that stars Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of
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The crowd at Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, shortly after John Dillinger was killed there by law enforcement officers.
Myrna Loy
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Myrna Loy was an American film, television, and stage actress. As a performer, she was known for her ability to adapt to her screen partner's acting style.
Manhattan Melodrama
…Melodrama is a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film, produced by MGM and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, that stars Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of Mickey Rooney's earliest film roles. (Rooney played Gable's character as a child.) The film is based on a story by…
Loy in 1941
Loy (left) at age six, standing on her grandmother's porch in Helena, Montana, with her cousin Laura Belle Wilder (1911)
Loy modeled for the central figure in Harry Fielding Winebrenner's Fountain of Education, a sculpture at Venice High School in Los Angeles (1922)
In its September 1925 issue, Motion Picture featured two Henry Waxman photographs of Loy, costumed by Adrian, as she appeared in What Price Beauty?.