Loretta Young
Biography
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1950. Young then moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series called The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Catholic, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Bedtime Story
1941
Shanghai
1935
Grand Slam
1933
Complicated Women
2003
The Stranger
1946
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Platinum Blonde
1931
The Only Way
1919
Paula
1952
The Accused
1949
Play Girl
1932
She Had to Say Yes
1933
Employees' Entrance
1933
War Nurse
1930
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
Beau Ideal
1931
Half Angel
1951
The House of Rothschild
1934
The Forward Pass
1929
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
The Bishop's Wife
1947
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Call of the Wild
1935
The Primrose Ring
1917
Along Came Jones
1945
Because of You
1952
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
The Movie Orgy
1968
Clive of India
1935
Second Honeymoon
1937
The Crusades
1935
Scarlet Seas
1928
Suez
1938
Eternally Yours
1939
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928
Come to the Stable
1949
Rachel and the Stranger
1948
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
They Call It Sin
1932
Key to the City
1950