Myrna Loy turned it down ... Finally Harry Cohn, the crass vulgarian who ran Columbia Studios, suggested Claudette Colbert, who was largely famous at that time for taking a bath in asses ...

I didn’t grow up thinking of Myrna Loy as a celebrity — to my brother and my sister and me, she was — and will always be — Aunt Myrna. We called her “aunt” even though she was my ...

COLBERT, MYRNA L. (Maynard, Bertolero) Myrna was born on February 4, 1938 to Charles E. and Anna J. (Polich) Maynard in Norris, IL. She was the youngest of four children. She was preceded in death ...

who rose to stardom as a child actress while playing the daughter or younger version of seemingly every leading lady in 1930s Hollywood — Claudette Colbert, Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer ...