CA PODCAST EPISODE 75 - Myrna Loy

While Myrna Loy was dancing in prologues at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, portrait photographer Henry Waxman took several pictures of her that were noticed by Rudolph Valentino when the actor went to Waxman's studio for a sitting. Valentino was looking for a leading lady for Cobra, the first independent project he and his wife Natacha Rambova 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 were among a bevy of chorus girls dangling from an elaborate chandelier.

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CA PODCAST EPISODE 75 - Myrna Loy is an episode from The Celebrity Archaeology Podcast by Adam Scull.

This episode is 06:17 long.

This episode was published on Oct 20, 2018.

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