Star-Myrna Loy Yellow TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 115 days, in Europe it is 69 days. As of 21-Jun-22 this one has survived for 3.1 years and had been moved by 11 cachers, for an average drop every 103 days. Please keep it moving!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This “Star” series of travel bugs is to bring attention to my favorite movie actors.  Some have awards, some do not.  There is no criterion to be included as a favorite beyond I will watch anything that has her/him in it.

Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born in 1905 in Radersburg, Montana.  Her father was the youngest person ever elected to the Montana State legislature. Later on her family moved to Helena where she spent her youth.  At the age of 13, Myrna's father died of influenza and the rest of the family moved to Los Angeles.  She was educated in L.A. and the Westlake School for Girls where she caught the acting bug.  She started at the age of 15 when she appeared in local stage productions in order to help support her family.  Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. At the end of the silent era, Myrna Loy started her career as an exotic, Theda Bara-like femme fatale. Fortunately, she was rescued by the advent of the sound picture, where she was recast in the role of the witty, urbane, professional woman. She is best remembered for her role of Nora Charles opposite William Powell in six "Thin Man" movies.  By the time Myrna passed away in 1993, at the age of 88, she had appeared in a phenomenal 129 motion pictures.  She was so natural she seemed always to be portraying herself on film.