Myrna Loy in the 1932 film, “The Mask of Fu Manchu.”
In her autobiography Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming, the actress remarked upon seeing the film many years later: “…It astonished me how good Karloff and I were. Everyone else just tossed it off as something that didn’t matter, while Boris and I brought some feeling and humor to those comic-book characters. Boris was a fine actor, a professional who never condescended to his often unworthy material.” Her close friend Roddy McDowall liked to tease her about the role, calling her “Fu.”
