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Loretta Young

Loretta Young
Loretta Young
Born: Jan 06, 1913 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Died: Aug 12, 2000 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '20s-'50s
Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: The Stranger, Kentucky, The House of Rothschild
First Major Screen Credit: The Head Man (1928)
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Biography:

Born Gretchen Young, her family moved to Hollywood and she began appearing (at age four) as a child extra in movies, as did her sisters (one of whom later became known as actress Sally Blane). At 14, she got a small supporting role in Naughty but Nice (1927), which led to a screen contract.

She moved quickly from teenager to ingénue to leading lady roles, appearing in many films and successfully making the transition to the sound era. By the mid-'30s, she was an established star, usually cast in decorative roles in routine programmers. For her work in The Farmer's Daughter (1947) she won the Best Actress Oscar, and was nominated again for Come to the Stable (1949).

After a consistently busy screen career of 25 years, she retired from films in 1953 to host the TV series The Loretta Young Show, a weekly half-hour teleplay; she appeared in about half of the show's episodes, winning three Emmy Awards. Since the early '60s, she has devoted most of her energies to Catholic charities.

She has been married twice. In 1930, she made headlines when, at age 17, she eloped with actor Grant Withers. However, the marriage was annulled after a year. She later married producer and writer Thomas Lewis, from whom she eventually separated. She authored the memoir {-The Things I Had to Learn} (1961).

After NBC unlawfully broadcast her TV shows abroad, she sued the network in 1972 and won 600,000 dollars. ~ All Movie Guide.