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Also Known As	Myrna Adele Williams • Myrna Williams
Born	August 2, 1905 • Montana
Died	December 14, 1993 (aged 88) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1991) • Kennedy Center Honors (1988) • Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1991)
Married To	John Daniel Hertz, Jr. (1942–1944) • Arthur Hornblow, Jr. (1936–1942) • Howland Hill Sargeant (1951–1960) • Gene Markey (1946–1950)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"Penthouse" (1933) • "Turn Back the Hours" (1928) • "Cameo Kirby" (1930) • "Bride of the Regiment" (1930) • "Song of the Thin Man" (1947) • "Test Pilot" (1938) • "Thirteen Women" (1932) • "Midnight Lace" (1960) • "Petticoat Fever" (1936) • "The Red Pony" (1949) • "Hardboiled Rose" (1929) • "When Ladies Meet" (1933) • "The Midnight Taxi" (1928) • "The DuPont Show with June Allyson" (1960) • "To Mary - with Love" (1936) • "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941) • "The Naughty Flirt" (1930) • "Renegades" (1930) • "The Virginian" (1967) • "The Climbers" (1927) • "Show of Shows" (1929) • "Vanity Fair" (1932) • "Emma" (1932) • "So Goes My Love" (1946) • "I Love You Again" (1940) • "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) • "From the Terrace" (1960) • "The Crimson City" (1928) • "State Street Sadie" (1928) • "Third Finger, Left Hand" (1940) • "Pay as You Enter" (1928) • "New Morals for Old" (1932) • "Simple Sis" (1927) • "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932) • "The Last of the Duanes" (1930) • "Too Hot to Handle" (1938) • "Why Girls Go Back Home" (1926) • "Exquisite Sinner" (1926) • "The End" (1978) • "Love Crazy" (1941) • "The Black Watch" (1929) • "Double Wedding" (1937) • "The Thin Man" (1934) • "Night Flight" (1933) • "Rogue of the Rio Grande" (1930) • "Under a Texas Moon" (1930) • "Libeled Lady" (1936) • "A Sailor's Sweetheart" (1927) • "Skyline" (1931) • "The Bad Man" (1930) • "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) • "The Animal Kingdom" (1932) • "Wings in the Dark" (1935) • "Transatlantic" (1931) • "The Barbarian" (1933) • "Lonelyhearts" (1958) • "That Dangerous Age" (1949) • "The Great Divide" (1929) • "Just Tell Me What You Want" (1980) • "Stamboul Quest" (1934) • "A Connecticut Yankee" (1931) • "Rebound" (1931) • "So This Is Paris" (1926) • "Ironside" (1973) • "Kilo tissa wa tissaine" (1956) • "Arrowsmith" (1931) • "Belles on Their Toes" (1952) • "Love, Sidney" (1982) • "Thalath Nessa" (1968) • "Another Thin Man" (1939) • "The Girl from Chicago" (1927) • "Lucky Night" (1939) • "Broadway Bill" (1934) • "The Caveman" (1926) • "After the Thin Man" (1936) • "General Electric Theater" (1955–1957) • "Wife vs. Secretary" (1936) • "Beware of Married Men" (1928) • "The Jazz Cinderella" (1930) • "Noah's Ark" (1928) • "Evelyn Prentice" (1934) • "Topaze" (1933) • "Fancy Baggage" (1929) • "Men in White" (1934) • "The Prizefighter and the Lady" (1933) • "The Gilded Highway" (1926) • "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) • "Across the Pacific" (1926) • "Airport 1975" (1974) • "Hush Money" (1931) • "The Truth About Youth" (1930) • "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950) • "What Price Beauty?" (1925) • "Bitter Apples" (1927) • "Isle of Escape" (1930) • "The Desert Song" (1929) • "Man-Proof" (1938) • "Love Me Tonight" (1932) • "The Rains Came" (1939) • "Cock o' the Walk" (1930) • "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948) • "Ham and Eggs at the Front" (1927) • "The Ambassador's Daughter" (1956) • "Columbo" (1972) • "Whipsaw" (1935) • "Family Affair" (1967) • "The Heart of Maryland" (1927) • "Body and Soul" (1931) • "The Wet Parade" (1932) • "The Thin Man Goes Home" (1944) • "Don Juan" (1926) • "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947) • "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1957) • "The Devil to Pay!" (1930) • "The April Fools" (1969) • "If I Were Single" (1927) • "The Woman in Room 13" (1932) • "Finger Prints" (1927) • "Consolation Marriage" (1931) • "Evidence" (1929) • "The Squall" (1929) • "Parnell" (1937)