Loretta Young

Known for ActingBorn 1913-01-06Died 2000-08-12Salt 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Costume Designer

The Whip Woman

Her Wild Oat

White and Unmarried

Mother Is a Freshman

The Forward Pass

Fast Life

Naughty But Nice

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Paula

He Stayed for Breakfast

Three Girls Lost

Too Young to Marry

The Second Floor Mystery

The Careless Age

The Head Man

The New Loretta Young Show

Complicated Women

Hollywood Extra Girl

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

The Girl in the Glass Cage

Christmas Eve

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

The Stranger

The Farmer's Daughter

Shanghai

The Bishop's Wife

Café Metropole

The Bob Hope Show

The Movie Orgy

Golden Globe Awards

Heroes for Sale

Show-Business at War

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

China

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'

The Man from Blankley's

Come to the Stable

The Magnificent Flirt

The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Only Way

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

The White Parade

Midnight Mary

Man's Castle

Letter to Loretta