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Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Born: 1913-01-06 • Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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.

Filmography
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood poster
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008 • Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage poster
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 • Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women poster
Complicated Women
2003 • Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces poster
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
2000 • Self (voice)
No Image
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995 • Self
Lady in a Corner poster
Lady in a Corner
1989 • Grace Guthrie
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood poster
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 • Self
Christmas Eve poster
Christmas Eve
1986 • Amanda Kingsley
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage poster
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 • Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? poster
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 • Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy poster
The Movie Orgy
1968 • Self (archive footage)
The Spark poster
The Spark
1961 • Lucy Masters
It Happens Every Thursday poster
It Happens Every Thursday
1953 • Jane MacAvoy
Because of You poster
Because of You
1952 • Christine Carroll Kimberly
Paula poster
Paula
1952 • Paula Rogers
Half Angel poster
Half Angel
1951 • Nora Gilpin
Cause for Alarm! poster
Cause for Alarm!
1951 • Ellen Jones
The Costume Designer poster
The Costume Designer
1950 • Self (archive footage)
You Can Change The World poster
You Can Change The World
1950 • Self
Key to the City poster
Key to the City
1950 • Clarissa Standish
Come to the Stable poster
Come to the Stable
1949 • Sister Margaret
Mother Is a Freshman poster
Mother Is a Freshman
1949 • Abigail Fortitude Abbott
The Accused poster
The Accused
1949 • Dr. Wilma Tuttle
Rachel and the Stranger poster
Rachel and the Stranger
1948 • Rachel
The Bishop's Wife poster
The Bishop's Wife
1947 • Julia Brougham
The Farmer's Daughter poster
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 • Katrin Holstrom
The Perfect Marriage poster
The Perfect Marriage
1947 • Maggie Williams
The Stranger poster
The Stranger
1946 • Mary Longstreet
Along Came Jones poster
Along Came Jones
1945 • Cherry de Longpre
And Now Tomorrow poster
And Now Tomorrow
1944 • Emily Blair
Ladies Courageous poster
Ladies Courageous
1944 • Roberta Harper
Show-Business at War poster
Show-Business at War
1943 • Self
China poster
China
1943 • Carolyn Grant
A Night to Remember poster
A Night to Remember
1942 • Nancy Troy
Bedtime Story poster
Bedtime Story
1941 • Jane Drake
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 poster
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
The Men in Her Life poster
The Men in Her Life
1941 • Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
The Lady from Cheyenne poster
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 • Annie Morgan
He Stayed for Breakfast poster
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940 • Marianna Duval
The Doctor Takes a Wife poster
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 • June Cameron
Eternally Yours poster
Eternally Yours
1939 • Anita Halstead
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell poster
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 • Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Wife, Husband and Friend poster
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 • Doris Borland
Kentucky poster
Kentucky
1938 • Sally Goodwin
Suez poster
Suez
1938 • Countess Eugenie de Montijo
Three Blind Mice poster
Three Blind Mice
1938 • Pamela Charters
Four Men and a Prayer poster
Four Men and a Prayer
1938 • Lynn Cherrington
Second Honeymoon poster
Second Honeymoon
1937 • Vicky
Wife, Doctor and Nurse poster
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 • Ina Heath Lewis
Love Under Fire poster
Love Under Fire
1937 • Myra Cooper
Café Metropole poster
Café Metropole
1937 • Laura Ridgeway
Love Is News poster
Love Is News
1937 • Tony Gateson
Ladies in Love poster
Ladies in Love
1936 • Susie Schmidt
Ramona poster
Ramona
1936 • Ramona
Private Number poster
Private Number
1936 • Ellen Neal
The Unguarded Hour poster
The Unguarded Hour
1936 • Lady Helen Dearden
Hollywood Extra Girl poster
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935 • Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Crusades poster
The Crusades
1935 • Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
Call of the Wild poster
Call of the Wild
1935 • Claire Blake
Shanghai poster
Shanghai
1935 • Barbara Howard
Clive of India poster
Clive of India
1935 • Margaret Maskelyne
Caravan poster
Caravan
1934 • Countess Wilma
The White Parade poster
The White Parade
1934 • June Arden
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back poster
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 • Lola Field
Born to Be Bad poster
Born to Be Bad
1934 • Letty Strong
The House of Rothschild poster
The House of Rothschild
1934 • Julie Rothschild
Man's Castle poster
Man's Castle
1933 • Trina
The Devil's in Love poster
The Devil's in Love
1933 • Margot Lesesne
She Had to Say Yes poster
She Had to Say Yes
1933 • Florence 'Flo' Denny
Midnight Mary poster
Midnight Mary
1933 • Mary
Heroes for Sale poster
Heroes for Sale
1933 • Ruth Loring
The Life of Jimmy Dolan poster
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 • Peggy
Zoo in Budapest poster
Zoo in Budapest
1933 • Eve
Grand Slam poster
Grand Slam
1933 • Marcia Stanislavsky
Employees' Entrance poster
Employees' Entrance
1933 • Madeleine Walters West
They Call It Sin poster
They Call It Sin
1932 • Marion Cullen
Life Begins poster
Life Begins
1932 • Grace Sutton
Week-End Marriage poster
Week-End Marriage
1932 • Lola Davis Hayes
Play Girl poster
Play Girl
1932 • Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
The Hatchet Man poster
The Hatchet Man
1932 • Sun Toya San
Taxi! poster
Taxi!
1932 • Sue Riley Nolan
Platinum Blonde poster
Platinum Blonde
1931 • Gallagher
I Like Your Nerve poster
I Like Your Nerve
1931 • Diane Forsythe
The Ruling Voice poster
The Ruling Voice
1931 • Gloria Bannister
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie' poster
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
Big Business Girl poster
Big Business Girl
1931 • Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
Too Young to Marry poster
Too Young to Marry
1931 • Elaine Bumpstead
Three Girls Lost poster
Three Girls Lost
1931 • Norene McMann
The Stolen Jools poster
The Stolen Jools
1931 • Loretta Young
Beau Ideal poster
Beau Ideal
1931 • Isobel Brandon
The Devil to Pay! poster
The Devil to Pay!
1930 • Dorothy Hope
The Right of Way poster
The Right of Way
1930 • Rosalie Evantural
War Nurse poster
War Nurse
1930 • Nurse (uncredited)
The Truth About Youth poster
The Truth About Youth
1930 • Phyllis Ericson
Kismet poster
Kismet
1930 • Marsinah
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee poster
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930 • Self
Road to Paradise poster
Road to Paradise
1930 • Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan
The Second Floor Mystery poster
The Second Floor Mystery
1930 • Marion Ferguson
Show Girl in Hollywood poster
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 • Loretta Young
The Man from Blankley's poster
The Man from Blankley's
1930 • Margery Seaton