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Myrna Darby was born on April 10, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. She attended business school and briefly worked as a stenographer. Myrna made her stage debut in a Pittsburgh production of Abie's Irish Rose. At the age of seventeen she moved to New York and won a beauty contest run by a newspaper. Florenz Ziegfeld saw Myrna and hired her to be in the Ziegfeld Follies.

She starred in productions of Whoopee, Rio Rita, and Rosalie.

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Critics said she was the most beautiful woman ever to appear in the Follies. Myrna also posed nude and appeared in ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Unfortunately she struggled with her weight and she began exercising daily to stay thin. In Myrna fell in love with a married pianist named George A. When George's wife found out about the affair she filed for divorce and accused Myrna of stealing her husband.

The story caused a scandal and some newspapers labeled Myrna a "home wrecker".