Loretta Young

Actor Jan 6 (died age 87) Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 1917–2008 (91 year career)

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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 seri…

Known For

Film

The Stranger

Mary Longstreet

Film

The Bishop's Wife

Julia Brougham

Film

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Simonetta

Film

Platinum Blonde

Gallagher

Film

The Farmer's Daughter

Katrin Holstrom

Film

Call of the Wild

Claire Blake

Film

The Sheik

Arab Child (uncredited)

Film

Man's Castle

Trina

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (120)

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

2008

as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

6.1

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

2000

as Self (voice)

6.5

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

as Self

Lady in a Corner

as Grace Guthrie

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

as Self

Christmas Eve

as Amanda Kingsley

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

6.1

The Movie Orgy

1968

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

The Spark

1961

as Lucy Masters

It Happens Every Thursday

as Jane MacAvoy

Paula

as Paula Rogers

Because of You

as Christine Carroll Kimberly

Half Angel

as Nora Gilpin

Cause for Alarm!

as Ellen Jones

You Can Change The World

as Self

Key to the City

as Clarissa Standish

The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

The Accused

as Dr. Wilma Tuttle

Come to the Stable

as Sister Margaret

Mother Is a Freshman

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

8.0

Rachel and the Stranger

as Rachel

The Perfect Marriage

as Maggie Williams

The Bishop's Wife

as Julia Brougham

The Farmer's Daughter

as Katrin Holstrom

The Stranger

as Mary Longstreet

Along Came Jones

as Cherry de Longpre

And Now Tomorrow

as Emily Blair

Ladies Courageous

as Roberta Harper

China

as Carolyn Grant

Show-Business at War

as Self

A Night to Remember

as Nancy Troy

The Men in Her Life

as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

6.2

Bedtime Story

1941

as Jane Drake

5.5

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1941

6.0

The Lady from Cheyenne

1941

as Annie Morgan

4.6

He Stayed for Breakfast

1940

as Marianna Duval

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940

as June Cameron

6.4

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939

as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

6.2

Eternally Yours

1939

as Anita Halstead

5.7

Wife, Husband and Friend

as Doris Borland

Kentucky

as Sally Goodwin

Three Blind Mice

as Pamela Charters

Four Men and a Prayer

1938

as Lynn Cherrington

6.3

Suez

1938

as Countess Eugenie de Montijo

Café Metropole

as Laura Ridgeway

Love Is News

as Tony Gateson

Second Honeymoon

as Vicky

Love Under Fire

as Myra Cooper

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937

as Ina Heath Lewis

6.0

The Unguarded Hour

1936

as Lady Helen Dearden

Private Number

as Ellen Neal

Ladies in Love

as Susie Schmidt

Ramona

as Ramona

Clive of India

as Margaret Maskelyne

Call of the Wild

as Claire Blake

The Crusades

as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre

6.2

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935

as Crusades Actor (uncredited)

Shanghai

as Barbara Howard

Caravan

as Countess Wilma

The House of Rothschild

as Julie Rothschild

The White Parade

as June Arden

Born to Be Bad

as Letty Strong

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Lola Field

Zoo in Budapest

as Eve

The Devil's in Love

as Margot Lesesne

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

as Peggy

Heroes for Sale

as Ruth Loring

Man's Castle

as Trina

Midnight Mary

as Mary

Employees' Entrance

as Madeleine Walters West

6.1

She Had to Say Yes

1933

as Florence 'Flo' Denny

5.2

Grand Slam

1933

as Marcia Stanislavsky

The Hatchet Man

as Sun Toya San

Life Begins

as Grace Sutton

Taxi!

as Sue Riley Nolan

Play Girl

as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

They Call It Sin

as Marion Cullen

Week-End Marriage

as Lola Davis Hayes

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

The Ruling Voice

as Gloria Bannister

Platinum Blonde

as Gallagher

Big Business Girl

as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

6.0

Three Girls Lost

1931

as Norene McMann

I Like Your Nerve

as Diane Forsythe

The Stolen Jools

as Loretta Young

Too Young to Marry

as Elaine Bumpstead

Beau Ideal

1931

as Isobel Brandon

4.1

The Second Floor Mystery

1930

as Marion Ferguson

The Man from Blankley's

as Margery Seaton

The Right of Way

as Rosalie Evantural

Kismet

as Marsinah

Loose Ankles

as Ann

Show Girl in Hollywood

1930

as Loretta Young

5.4

War Nurse

1930

as Nurse (uncredited)

4.6

The Devil to Pay!

1930

as Dorothy Hope

5.7

The Truth About Youth

1930

as Phyllis Ericson

5.7

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930

as Self

3.4

Road to Paradise

1930

as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan

6.2

The Careless Age

1929

as Muriel

The Squall

1929

as Irma

3.0

Seven Footprints to Satan

1929

as One of Satan's Victims (uncredited)

6.1

The Show of Shows

1929

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

5.5

The Girl in the Glass Cage

1929

as Gladys Cosgrove

6.0

Fast Life

1929

as Patricia Mason Stratton

The Forward Pass

1929

as Patricia Carlyle

The Whip Woman

1928

as The Girl

The Head Man

1928

as Carol Watts

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

as Simonetta

Scarlet Seas

as Margaret Barbour

The Magnificent Flirt

1928

as Denise Laverne

Naughty But Nice

1927

as (uncredited)

Her Wild Oat

1927

as Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)

The Sheik

1921

as Arab Child (uncredited)

5.9

White and Unmarried

1921

as Child (uncredited)

The Only Way

1919

as Child on Operating Table

Sirens of the Sea

1917

as Child (as Gretchen Young)

The Primrose Ring

1917

as Fairy (uncredited)

Television (4)

The New Loretta Young Show

as Christine Massey

Letter to Loretta

as Carol Brown

The Bob Hope Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter