Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center in 1988.
Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy were offered the roles of Ellie and Peter in It Happened One Night, but each turned the script down, though Loy later noted that the final story as filmed bore little resemblance to the script that she and Montgomery and been offered for their perusal.
She became a founder member of the American Place Theatre, a non-profit theatre set up to help new writers develop.
She made her Broadway debut in the 1973 revival of "The Women".
She organized an opposition to the House Unamerican Activities Committee in Hollywood.
She served as an advisor to the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing.
Spent her early years on a ranch and in the town of Helena, Montana, which was also the home of Gary Cooper.
Subject of the song "Myrna Loy" by The Minus 5.
The statue outside Venice High School that bares her likeness is titled 'Inspiration', and has been the target of vandalism and school pranks for decades (Loy mentions in her book that the statue was even decapetated at one point). It is now surrounded by a fence.
Turned down the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934). Claudette Colbert was given the part and went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
Underwent two mastectomies after being diagnosed with breast cancer twice.
Was a member of New York's St. Paul's Methodist Church (later known as the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew).
Was supposedly the favorite star of famed outlaw John Dillinger. He came out of hiding to see Manhattan Melodrama (1934), in which she starred, and was gunned down by police upon leaving the theater.
When her father was travelling by train in early 1905, he went through a small station called 'Myrna' - he eventually named her after that station.