Heavy Legs
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Myrna Loy
summerfields — 18 years ago(September 21, 2007 04:53 PM)
Myrna was beautiful facially, but unfortunately, her legs were rather "heavy laden"
Some people would refer to them unkindly as "fat"
They were artfully covered in her early years as an Oriental siren in silents & if you'll notice, they were rarely seen "displayed" in films.
As a fan of Miss Loy, this fact doesn't deter one whit from enjoying her many great roles.
Just thought someone else on the posts here would have beat me to the punch on this subject!
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ghfreak — 18 years ago(December 03, 2007 09:28 PM)
She actually mentioned in her autobiography that she thought her legs were thick. I don't know if I agree, but regardless it didn't seem to bother her much. She seemed to take her "flaws" with a grain of salt. Zanuck used to make her glue her ears back during scenes because he thought they stuck out too much. The heat of the overhead lights would make them pop back lol. Also, she said a tiny bone in her nose used to cast a shadow that drove cameramen crazy trying to light her properly. Despite that, women all over the country actually went to plastic surgeons to get her famous nose.
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HarlowMGM — 18 years ago(December 23, 2007 06:46 PM)
I don't think her legs were "heavy" but there were rather unshapely and pinup or "leg art" of Myrna is pretty rare because she didn't really have that kind of "oomph". In the late 1920's Myrna Loy made a couple of island "sarong girl" roles and she had to wear a sarong but clearly she was ill at ease in garment and didn't have the legs and curves to pull it off like Dorothy Lamour did about ten years later. And so Myrna as "The Sarong Girl" was a flop while Dorothy in the role would be a sensation. (You can see pictures of Loy as the prototype Lamour in the book THE FILMS OF MYRNA LOY.)
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jimmytheSpoon — 17 years ago(August 15, 2008 08:51 AM)
I wouldn't say her legs are "unkindly fat".
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Dr_Miklos_Rozsa — 17 years ago(October 29, 2008 04:10 PM)
I don't think they're heavy at all. They're graceful and they fit the rest of her gorgeous body well. Take a look at this clip of Myrna as an Oriental dancer in THE SHOW OF SHOWS (1929). Unfortunately, it's the only color film Myrna made before she became a grown woman:
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Rex9 — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 09:17 AM)
Agreed. I thought her legs were "outstanding", to fit her very good form and beautiful eyes. Even at age 41, in the movie, the Best Years of Our Lives, I thought she looked great, making my head spin. In one scene of that film where Teresa Wright had apparently fallen in love with a married man (Dana Andrews) and subsequently declared to her parents (Loy and March) that she intended to destroy the marriage of Dana Andrews character with the outrageously attractive Virginia Mayo, so that she could be with him and vice-versa, I thought Dana Andrews should have rebounded with Myrna Loy and broken up her marriage with Frederic March.lol. A soap opera, but a very good movie. Myrna Loy was definitely an underrated actress and, definitely, a fine-looking one to boot with a great pair of gams.
