Loretta Young
Born January 06, 1913 (Age: 113)
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 93
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
2000
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 87
Lady in a Corner
1989
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as Grace Guthrie
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Age: 76
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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as Self
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Age: 74
The Spark
1961
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as Lucy Masters
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Age: 47
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
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as Jane MacAvoy
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Age: 40
The Costume Designer
1950
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 37
You Can Change The World
1950
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as Self
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Age: 37
Key to the City
1950
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as Clarissa Standish
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Age: 37
Along Came Jones
1945
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as Cherry de Longpre
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Age: 32
A Night to Remember
1942
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as Nancy Troy
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Age: 29
Bedtime Story
1941
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as Jane Drake
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Age: 28
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
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as
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Age: 28
The Men in Her Life
1941
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as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
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Age: 28
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
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as Annie Morgan
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Age: 28
They Call It Sin
1932
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as Marion Cullen
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Age: 19
Life Begins
1932
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as Grace Sutton
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Age: 19
Week-End Marriage
1932
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as Lola Davis Hayes
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Age: 19
Play Girl
1932
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as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
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Age: 19
The Hatchet Man
1932
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as Sun Toya San
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Age: 19
Taxi!
1932
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as Sue Riley Nolan
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Age: 19
Platinum Blonde
1931
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as Gallagher
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Age: 18
I Like Your Nerve
1931
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as Diane Forsythe
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Age: 18
The Ruling Voice
1931
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as Gloria Bannister
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Age: 18
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
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as
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Age: 18
Big Business Girl
1931
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as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
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Age: 18
Too Young to Marry
1931
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as Elaine Bumpstead
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Age: 18
Three Girls Lost
1931
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as Norene McMann
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Age: 18
The Stolen Jools
1931
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as Loretta Young
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Age: 18
Beau Ideal
1931
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as Isobel Brandon
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Age: 18
The Devil to Pay!
1930
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as Dorothy Hope
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Age: 17
The Right of Way
1930
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as Rosalie Evantural
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Age: 17
War Nurse
1930
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as Nurse (uncredited)
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Age: 17
The Truth About Youth
1930
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as Phyllis Ericson
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Age: 17
Kismet
1930
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as Marsinah
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Age: 17
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
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as Self
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Age: 17
Road to Paradise
1930
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as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan
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Age: 17
The Second Floor Mystery
1930
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as Marion Ferguson
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Age: 17
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
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as Loretta Young
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Age: 17
The Man from Blankley's
1930
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as Margery Seaton
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Age: 17
Loose Ankles
1930
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as Ann
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Age: 17