Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December
14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.
Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career
following a few minor roles in silent films. She was originally
typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent,
but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of
Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934).[1]
Although Loy was never nominated for a competitive Academy Award, in
March 1991 she was presented with an Honorary
Academy Award
Academy Award in
recognition of her life's work both onscreen and off, including
serving as assistant to the director of military and naval welfare for
the
Red Cross
Red Cross during World War II, and a member-at-large of the U.S.
Commission to UNESCO. While the height of her popularity was during
the 1930s and '40s, she continued to actively pursue stage, television
and film roles in subsequent decades.[2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Early years
2.2 Rise to stardom
2.3 Later career
3 Later years
4 Death and legacy
5 Personal life
6 Filmography
7 Radio appearances
8 See also
9 References
9.1 Notes
9.2 Bibliography
10 External links
Early life[edit]
Loy was born in Helena, Montana,[3][4] the daughter of Adelle Mae
(née Johnson) and rancher David Franklin Williams, and raised in
Radersburg.[5][6] She had a younger brother, David Williams (died
1982). Loy's paternal grandparents were Welsh, and her maternal
grandparents were Scottish and Swedish.[7][8] Her first name was
derived from a whistle stop near Broken Bow, Nebraska, whose name her
father liked. Her father was also a banker and real estate developer
and the youngest man ever elected to the Montana state legislature.
Her mother studied music at the
American Conservatory of Music in
Chicago.
Fountain of Education by Harry Fielding Winebrenner, 1922
During the winter of 1912, Loy's mother nearly died from pneumonia,
and her father sent his wife and daughter to La Jolla, California.
Loy's mother saw great potential in Southern California, and during
one of her husband's visits, she encouraged him to purchase real
estate there. Among the properties he bought was land he later sold at
a considerable profit to
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin so the filmmaker could
construct his studio there. Although her mother tried to persuade her
husband to move to California permanently, he preferred ranch life and
the three eventually returned to Montana. Soon afterward, Loy's mother
needed a hysterectomy and insisted Los Angeles was a safer place to
have it done, so she, Loy, and Loy's brother David moved to Ocean
Park, where Loy began to take dancing lessons. After the family
returned to Montana, Loy continued her dancing lessons, and at the age
of 12, Myrna Williams made her stage debut performing a dance she had
choreographed based on "The Blue Bird" from the Rose Dream operetta[9]
at Helena's Marlow Theater.[10]
After the November 1918 death of Loy's father from the 1918 flu
pandemic,[11] Loy's mother permanently relocated the family to
California, where they settled in Culver City. Loy attended the
exclusive Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles while continuing to
study dance in downtown L.A.. When her teachers objected to her
extracurricular participation in theatrical arts, her mother enrolled
her in Venice High School, and at 15, she began appearing in local
stage productions.[12]
In 1921, Loy posed for Venice High School sculpture teacher Harry
Fielding Winebrenner for the central figure "Inspiration" in his
allegorical sculpture group Fountain of Education.[13] Completed in
1922, the sculpture group was erected in front of the campus outdoor
pool in May 1923 where it stood for decades.[14] Loy's slender figure
with her uplifted face and one arm extending skyward presented a
"vision of purity, grace, youthful vigor, and aspiration" that was
singled out in a Los Angeles Times story that included a photo of the
"Inspiration" figure along with the model's name—the first time her
name appeared in a newspaper.[15] A few months later, Loy's
"Inspiration" figure was temporarily removed from the sculpture group
and transported aboard the battleship Nevada for a Memorial Day
pageant in which "Miss Myrna Williams" participated.[15] Fountain of
Education can be seen in the opening scenes of the 1978 film Grease.
After decades of exposure to the elements and vandalism, the original
concrete statue was removed from display in 2002, and replaced in 2010
by a bronze duplicate paid for through an alumni-led fundraising
campaign.[15][16]
Loy left school at the age of 18 to help with the family's finances.
She obtained work at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, where she performed
in elaborate musical sequences that were related to and served as
prologues for the feature film. During this period, she saw Eleonora
Duse in the play Thy Will Be Done, and the simple acting techniques
she employed made such an impact on Loy that she tried to emulate them
throughout her career.[17]
Career[edit]
Early years[edit]
Leslie Howard and
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy publicity photo for The Animal Kingdom,
1932
Portrait photographer Henry Waxman had taken several pictures of Loy,
and they were noticed by
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino when the actor went to
Waxman's studio for a sitting. He was looking for a leading lady for
Cobra, the first independent project his wife
Natacha Rambova
Natacha Rambova and he
were producing. Loy tested for the role, which went to Gertrude
Olmstead instead, but soon after she was hired as an extra for Pretty
Ladies (1925), in which she and fellow newcomer
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford were
among a bevy of chorus girls dangling from an elaborate
chandelier.[18]
Rambova recommended Loy for a small but showy role opposite Nita Naldi
in
What Price Beauty? (1925). Although the film remained unreleased
for three years, stills of Loy in her exotic makeup and costume
appeared in a fan magazine and led to a contract with Warner Bros.,
where her surname was changed from Williams to Loy.[19]
Loy's silent film roles were mainly as a vamp or femme fatale, and she
frequently portrayed characters of Asian or Eurasian background in
films such as Across the Pacific (1926), A Girl in Every Port (1928),
The Crimson City
The Crimson City (1928),
The Black Watch
The Black Watch (1929), and The Desert Song
(1929), which she later recalled "kind of solidified my exotic
non-American image."[20] In 1930 she appeared in The Great Divide. It
took years for her to overcome this stereotype, and as late as 1932,
she was cast as a villainous Eurasian in
Thirteen Women
Thirteen Women (1932). She
also played, opposite Boris Karloff, the depraved sadistic daughter of
the title character in
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932).
Prior to that, Loy appeared in small roles in
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer and a
number of early lavish
Technicolor
Technicolor musicals, including The Show of
Shows, The Bride of the Regiment, and Under a Texas Moon. As a result,
she became associated with musical roles, and when they began to lose
favor with the public, her career went into a slump. In 1934, Loy
appeared in
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama with
Clark Gable
Clark Gable and William Powell.
When gangster
John Dillinger
John Dillinger was shot to death after leaving a
screening of the film at the
Biograph Theater
Biograph Theater in Chicago, the film
received widespread publicity, with some newspapers reporting that Loy
had been Dillinger's favorite actress.[21]
Rise to stardom[edit]
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy and
Clark Gable
Clark Gable in Wife vs. Secretary, 1936
After appearing with
Ramón Novarro
Ramón Novarro in The Barbarian (1933), Loy was
cast as Nora Charles in the 1934 film The Thin Man. Director W. S. Van
Dyke chose Loy after he detected a wit and sense of humor that her
previous films had not revealed. At a
Hollywood
Hollywood party, he pushed her
into a swimming pool to test her reaction, and felt that her aplomb in
handling the situation was exactly what he envisioned for Nora.[22]
Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer at first refused to allow Loy to play the part because
he felt she was a dramatic actress, but Van Dyke insisted. Mayer
finally relented on the condition that filming be completed within
three weeks, as Loy was committed to start filming Stamboul Quest.[23]
The Thin Man became one of the year's biggest hits, and was nominated
for the
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Film. Loy received excellent reviews
and was acclaimed for her comedic skills. Her costar William Powell
and she proved to be a popular screen couple and appeared in 14 films
together, one of the most prolific pairings in
Hollywood
Hollywood history. Loy
later referred to The Thin Man as the film "that finally made me ...
after more than 80 films".[24]
Publicity photo for The Thin Man, with Myrna Loy, Skippy, and William
Powell, 1936
Her successes in
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man marked a turning
point in her career, and she was cast in more important pictures. Such
films as
Wife vs. Secretary
Wife vs. Secretary (1936) with
Clark Gable
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow,
and
Petticoat Fever
Petticoat Fever (1936) with Robert Montgomery gave her opportunity
to develop comedic skills. She made four films in close succession
with William Powell:
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady (1936), which also starred Jean
Harlow and Spencer Tracy,
The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld (1936), in which she
played
Billie Burke
Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second
Thin Man film,
After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and
the romantic comedy
Double Wedding
Double Wedding (1937). She also made three more
films with Gable.
Parnell (1937) was a historical drama and one of the most poorly
received films of either Loy or Gable's careers, but their other
pairings in Test Pilot and Too Hot to Handle (both 1938) were
successes. During this period, Loy was one of Hollywood's busiest and
highest-paid actresses, and in 1937 and 1938, she was listed in the
annual "Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars", which was
compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the United
States for the stars who had generated the most revenue in their
theaters over the previous year.[25]
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
By this time, Loy was highly regarded for her performances in romantic
comedies, and she was anxious to demonstrate her dramatic ability, and
was cast in the lead female role in
The Rains Came
The Rains Came (1939) opposite
Tyrone Power. She filmed
Third Finger, Left Hand
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) with Melvyn
Douglas and appeared in
I Love You Again
I Love You Again (1940), Love Crazy (1941),
and
Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), all with William Powell.
With the outbreak of World War II, Loy all but abandoned her acting
career to focus on the war effort and work closely with the Red Cross.
She was so fiercely outspoken against
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler that her name
appeared on his blacklist. She helped run a Naval Auxiliary canteen
and toured frequently to raise funds. She returned to films with The
Thin Man Goes Home (1945). In 1946, she played the wife of returning
serviceman
Fredric March
Fredric March in
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Loy
was paired with
Cary Grant
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Cary Grant in David O. Selznick's The Bachelor and the
Bobby-Soxer (1947). The film co-starred a teenaged Shirley Temple.
Following its success, she appeared again with Grant in Mr. Blandings
Builds His Dream House (1948), and with
Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb in Cheaper by the
Dozen (1950). Throughout her career, she championed the rights of
black actors and characters to be depicted with dignity on film.
Later career[edit]
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After 1950, Loy's film career continued sporadically. In 1952, she
starred in the Cheaper by the Dozen sequel, Belles on Their Toes. In
1956, she appeared in The Ambassador's Daughter along with John
Forsythe and Olivia de Havilland. She played opposite Montgomery Clift
and
Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan in
Lonelyhearts
Lonelyhearts (1958), Dore Schary's adaptation of
Nathanael West's classic 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts. In 1960, she
appeared in
Midnight Lace
Midnight Lace and From the Terrace, but was not in another
film until 1969 in The April Fools. In 1965, Loy won the Sarah Siddons
Award for her work in Chicago theatre. In 1967, she appeared in the
television series The Virginian in an episode titled "Lady of the
House". In 1972, she appeared as the suspect's mother-in-law in the
television series
Columbo
Columbo in an episode titled "Etude in Black". In
1974, she was a supporting actress in Airport 1975. Loy played Mrs.
Devane, a heavy-drinking woman, imbibing Jim Beam and Olympia Beer
mixed together. She played a foil to Sid Caesar. The film also starred
Gloria Swanson. In 1978, she appeared in the film The End as the
mother of the main character played by Burt Reynolds. Her last motion
picture performance was in 1980 in Sidney Lumet's Just Tell Me What
You Want. She also returned to the stage, making her Broadway debut in
a short-lived 1973 revival of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women. She
toured in a 1978 production of Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking,
directed by David Clayton.
In 1981, she appeared in the television drama Summer Solstice,[26]
which was Henry Fonda's last performance. Her last acting role was a
guest spot on the sitcom Love, Sidney, in 1982.
Later years[edit]
In later life, she assumed an influential role as co-chairman of the
Advisory Council of the National Committee Against Discrimination in
Housing. In 1948, she became a member of the U.S. National Commission
for UNESCO, the first
Hollywood
Hollywood celebrity to do so. Loy had two
mastectomies, in 1975 and 1979, for breast cancer.[27]
Her autobiography, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming, was published in
1987. The following year, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Kennedy Center. Although Loy was never nominated for an
Academy Award
Academy Award for any single performance, after an extensive
letter-writing campaign and years of lobbying by screenwriter and
then-
Writers Guild of America, West
Writers Guild of America, West board member Michael Russnow, who
enlisted the support of Loy's former screen colleagues and friends
such as Roddy McDowall, Sidney Sheldon, Harold Russell, and many
others, she received a 1991
Academy Honorary Award "for her career
achievement". She accepted via camera [28] from her New York City
home, simply stating, "You've made me very happy. Thank you very
much." It was her last public appearance in any medium.
Death and legacy[edit]
Myrna Loy's grave in Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Montana
Loy died on December 14, 1993, at
Lenox Hill Hospital
Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan
during unspecified surgery after a long illness.[29] She was 88 years
old. She had been frail and in failing health. She was cremated in New
York and her ashes interred at Forestvale Cemetery in her native
Helena, Montana.[2]
For her contribution to the film industry,
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy has a star on the
Hollywood
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6685
Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard.
A building at Sony Pictures Studios, formerly MGM Studios, in Culver
City is named in her honor.[30] A cast of her handprint and her
signature are in the sidewalk in front of Theater 80, on St. Mark's
Place in New York City.[31]
In 1991, the
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts opened
in downtown Helena, not far from Loy's childhood home. Located in the
historic Lewis and Clark County Jail, it sponsors live performances
and alternative films for underserved audiences.[32]
American songwriter Josh Ritter’s 2017 album Gathering features a
song about Loy, titled aptly enough, ‘Myrna Loy’.
Personal life[edit]
MGM publicity photo
Loy was married and divorced four times:
1936–1942 Arthur Hornblow, Jr., producer
1942–1944 John Hertz, Jr., the son of John D. Hertz, founder of
Hertz Rent A Car
1946–1950 Gene Markey, producer and screenwriter
1951–1960 Howland H. Sargeant,
UNESCO
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UNESCO delegate
Loy had no children of her own, but was close to her stepchildren by
first husband Arthur Hornblow. After her last marriage ended, she
moved to 23
East 74th Street
East 74th Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side. She later
lived at 425 East 63rd Street.[33]
There were rumors that
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy had affairs with:
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy during the filming of Whipsaw in 1935 and Libeled Lady
in 1936.[34][35]
Leslie Howard during the filming of
The Animal Kingdom
The Animal Kingdom in 1932.[36]
Gambler
Titanic Thompson claimed he had an affair with her.[37][38]
Even before Loy became a staunch Democrat, one of her biggest fans was
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who invited her to the
White House
White House early in his
administration,[39] and she soon became a personal friend of Eleanor
Roosevelt.[40]
Loy stated in a 1970 interview that she was a Methodist and that she
was very proud of her Welsh roots on her father's side.[41]
Filmography[edit]
Main article:
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy filmography
What Price Beauty? (1925)
The Wanderer (1925)
Pretty Ladies
Pretty Ladies (1925)
Sporting Life (1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Caveman
The Caveman (1926)
The Love Toy (1926)
Why Girls Go Back Home
Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
The Gilded Highway
The Gilded Highway (1926)
The Exquisite Sinner
The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
So This is Paris
So This is Paris (1926)
Don Juan (1926)
Across the Pacific (1926)
The Third Degree (1926)
Finger Prints (1927)
When a Man Loves
When a Man Loves (1927)
Bitter Apples
Bitter Apples (1927)
The Climbers (1927)
Simple Sis (1927)
The Heart of Maryland (1927)
A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The Girl from Chicago (1927)
If I Were Single (1927)
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Beware of Married Men (1928)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Turn Back the Hours (1928)
The Crimson City
The Crimson City (1928)
Pay as You Enter
Pay as You Enter (1928)
State Street Sadie
State Street Sadie (1928)
The Midnight Taxi (1928)
Noah's Ark (1928)
Fancy Baggage
Fancy Baggage (1929)
Hardboiled Rose
Hardboiled Rose (1929)
The Desert Song (1929)
The Black Watch
The Black Watch (1929)
The Squall
The Squall (1929)
The Great Divide (1929)
Evidence (1929)
The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows (1929)
Cameo Kirby (1930)
Isle of Escape
Isle of Escape (1930)
Under a Texas Moon (1930)
Cock o' the Walk (1930)
Bride of the Regiment (1930)
The Last of the Duanes (1930)
The Jazz Cinderella
The Jazz Cinderella (1930)
The Bad Man (1930)
Renegades (1930)
The Truth About Youth
The Truth About Youth (1930)
Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
The Naughty Flirt
The Naughty Flirt (1931)
Body and Soul (1931)
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Hush Money (1931)
Rebound (1931)
Transatlantic (1931)
Skyline (1931)
Consolation Marriage
Consolation Marriage (1931)
Arrowsmith (1931)
Emma (1932)
Vanity Fair (1932)
The Wet Parade
The Wet Parade (1932)
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
New Morals for Old
New Morals for Old (1932)
Love Me Tonight
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Thirteen Women
Thirteen Women (1932)
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The Animal Kingdom
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Topaze (1933)
The Barbarian (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
When Ladies Meet (1933)
Penthouse (1933)
Night Flight (1933)
Men in White (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Stamboul Quest
Stamboul Quest (1934)
Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill (1934)
Wings in the Dark
Wings in the Dark (1935)
Whipsaw (1935)
Wife vs. Secretary
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Petticoat Fever
Petticoat Fever (1936)
The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
To Mary - with Love
To Mary - with Love (1936)
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady (1936)
After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man (1936)
Parnell (1937)
Double Wedding
Double Wedding (1937)
Man-Proof
Man-Proof (1938)
Test Pilot (1938)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
Lucky Night
Lucky Night (1939)
The Rains Came
The Rains Came (1939)
Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man (1939)
I Love You Again
I Love You Again (1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
So Goes My Love
So Goes My Love (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Song of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
The Red Pony (1949)
That Dangerous Age
That Dangerous Age (1949)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Belles on Their Toes (1952)
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
Lonelyhearts
Lonelyhearts (1958)
From the Terrace
From the Terrace (1960)
Midnight Lace
Midnight Lace (1960)
The April Fools
The April Fools (1969)
Airport 1975
Airport 1975 (1974)
Ants! (1977)
The End (1978)
Just Tell Me What You Want
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
Summer Solstice (TV movie) (1981)
Radio appearances[edit]
Year
Program
Episode/source
1936
Lux Radio Theatre
The Thin Man
1937
Maxwell House Good News of 1938
Herself[42]
1940
The Gulf Screen Guild Theater
Single Crossing
1940
Lux Radio Theatre
After The Thin Man
1940
Lux Radio Theatre
Manhattan Melodrama[43]
1941
The Gulf Screen Guild Theater
Magnificent Obsession
1941
Lux Radio Theatre
I Love You Again
1941
Lux Radio Theatre
Hired Wife
1942
Lux Radio Theatre
Appointment For Love
1945
Suspense
Library Book[43]:33
See also[edit]
Biography portal
Film portal
References[edit]
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Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard and
Myrna Loy. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1979.
ISBN 0-385-12819-3.
Curtis, James (2011). Spencer Tracy: A Biography. London: Hutchinson.
ISBN 978-0-30726-289-9.
Kotsilibas-Davis, James; Loy, Myrna (1987). Myrna Loy: Being and
Becoming. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55593-7.
Leider, Emily W. (2011). Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
ISBN 978-0-520-25320-9.
Parish, James Robert and Ronald L. Bowers. The MGM Stock Company: The
Golden Era. London: Allan, 1974. ISBN 978-0-7110-0501-3.
Wayne, Jane Ellen (2005). The Leading Men of MGM. New York: Carrol and
Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-1768-2.
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Academy Honorary Award
1928–1950
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. /
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time
The March of Time /
W. Howard Greene and
Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen /
W. Howard Greene /
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art Film Library /
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball /
Walt Disney
Walt Disney /
Deanna Durbin
Deanna Durbin and
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney /
Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art
Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills,
Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst /
Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey /
Harry Warner
Harry Warner (1938)
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks /
Judy Garland
Judy Garland /
William Cameron Menzies / Motion
Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad
Nagel)/
Technicolor
Technicolor Company (1939)
Bob Hope
Bob Hope /
Nathan Levinson (1940)
Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA
Manufacturing Company /
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey
Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer /
Noël Coward
Noël Coward /
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
George Pal
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George Pal (1943)
Bob Hope
Bob Hope /
Margaret O'Brien
Margaret O'Brien (1944)
Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound
Department /
Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner
(1945)
Harold Russell
Harold Russell /
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier /
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr.
(1946)
James Baskett
James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith,
and
George Kirke Spoor
George Kirke Spoor /
Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger /
Monsieur Vincent
Monsieur Vincent /
Sid Grauman
Sid Grauman /
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor (1948)
Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt /
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire /
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief
(1949)
Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer /
George Murphy
George Murphy /
The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
1951–1975
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly /
Rashomon
Rashomon (1951)
Merian C. Cooper
Merian C. Cooper /
Bob Hope
Bob Hope /
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph
M. Schenck /
Forbidden Games
Forbidden Games (1952)
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph
Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company /
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta
Garbo /
Jon Whiteley
Jon Whiteley /
Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (1956)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M.
"Broncho Billy" Anderson /
Charles Brackett /
B. B. Kahane (1957)
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier (1958)
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton /
Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest (1959)
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper /
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel /
Hayley Mills
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Hayley Mills (1960)
William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler /
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (1961)
William J. Tuttle
William J. Tuttle (1964)
Bob Hope
Bob Hope (1965)
Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt /
Y. Frank Freeman
Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
Arthur Freed (1967)
John Chambers /
Onna White (1968)
Cary Grant
Cary Grant (1969)
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish /
Orson Welles
Orson Welles (1970)
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (1971)
Charles S. Boren /
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (1972)
Henri Langlois
Henri Langlois /
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx (1973)
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks /
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1974)
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (1975)
1976–2000
Margaret Booth (1977)
Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz /
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier /
King Vidor
King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art
Department of Film (1978)
Hal Elias /
Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (1979)
Henry Fonda
.JPG/440px-Henry_Fonda_as_Mr._Roberts_1948_(cropped).JPG)
Henry Fonda (1980)
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (1982)
Hal Roach
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Hal Roach (1983)
James Stewart
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James Stewart /
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
Paul Newman
Paul Newman /
Alex North (1985)
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy (1986)
Eastman
Kodak
Kodak Company /
National Film Board of Canada
National Film Board of Canada (1988)
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa (1989)
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren /
Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (1990)
Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray (1991)
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (1992)
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr (1993)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas /
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones (1995)
Michael Kidd
Michael Kidd (1996)
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (1997)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1998)
Andrzej Wajda
.jpg/440px-Andrzej_Wajda_OFF_Plus_Camera_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Andrzej Wajda (1999)
Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff /
Ernest Lehman (2000)
2001–present
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier /
Robert Redford
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Robert Redford (2001)
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole (2002)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (2003)
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (2004)
Robert Altman
Robert Altman (2005)
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (2006)
Robert F. Boyle (2007)
Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall /
Roger Corman
Roger Corman /
Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis (2009)
Kevin Brownlow /
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard /
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach (2010)
James Earl Jones
.jpg/440px-James_Earl_Jones_(8516667383).jpg)
James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
D. A. Pennebaker
D. A. Pennebaker /
Hal Needham
Hal Needham /
George Stevens Jr.
George Stevens Jr. (2012)
Angela Lansbury
.jpg/440px-Angela_Lansbury_(8356239174).jpg)
Angela Lansbury /
Steve Martin
Steve Martin /
Piero Tosi (2013)
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière /
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki /
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (2014)
Spike Lee
Spike Lee /
Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands (2015)
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan /
Lynn Stalmaster /
Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman
(2016)
Charles Burnett /
Owen Roizman /
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda
(2017)
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Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center Honorees (1980s)
1980
Leonard Bernstein
James Cagney
Agnes de Mille
Lynn Fontanne
Leontyne Price
1981
Count Basie
Cary Grant
Helen Hayes
Jerome Robbins
Rudolf Serkin
1982
George Abbott
Lillian Gish
Benny Goodman
Gene Kelly
Eugene Ormandy
1983
Katherine Dunham
Elia Kazan
Frank Sinatra
James Stewart
Virgil Thomson
1984
Lena Horne
Danny Kaye
Gian Carlo Menotti
Arthur Miller
Isaac Stern
1985
Merce Cunningham
Irene Dunne
Bob Hope
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Beverly Sills
1986
Lucille Ball
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy
Yehudi Menuhin
Antony Tudor
Ray Charles
1987
Perry Como
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Nathan Milstein
Alwin Nikolais
1988
Alvin Ailey
George Burns
Myrna Loy
Alexander Schneider
Roger L. Stevens
1989
Harry Belafonte
Claudette Colbert
Alexandra Danilova
Mary Martin
William Schuman
Complete list
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Authority control
WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 12503551
LCCN: n80098354
ISNI: 0000 0003 6840 9622
GND: 119007940
SELIBR: 354400
SUDOC: 07339825X
BNF: cb14014014k (data)
BNE: XX1064334
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