Loretta Young

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.

Known For

Golden Globe Awards

The Bob Hope Show

Road to Paradise

Letter to Loretta

All Movies (120)

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood2008 · as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage2006 · as Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women2003 · as Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces2000 · as Self (voice)
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell1995 · as Self
Lady in a Corner1989 · as Grace Guthrie
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood1987 · as Self
Christmas Eve1986 · as Amanda Kingsley
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage1983 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy1968 · as Self (archive footage)
The Spark1961 · as Lucy Masters
It Happens Every Thursday1953 · as Jane MacAvoy
Because of You1952 · as Christine Carroll Kimberly
Paula1952 · as Paula Rogers
Half Angel1951 · as Nora Gilpin
Cause for Alarm!1951 · as Ellen Jones
The Costume Designer1950 · as Self (archive footage)
You Can Change The World1950 · as Self
Key to the City1950 · as Clarissa Standish
Come to the Stable1949 · as Sister Margaret
Mother Is a Freshman1949 · as Abigail Fortitude Abbott
The Accused1949 · as Dr. Wilma Tuttle
Rachel and the Stranger1948 · as Rachel
The Bishop's Wife1947 · as Julia Brougham
The Farmer's Daughter1947 · as Katrin Holstrom
The Perfect Marriage1947 · as Maggie Williams
The Stranger1946 · as Mary Longstreet
Along Came Jones1945 · as Cherry de Longpre
And Now Tomorrow1944 · as Emily Blair
Ladies Courageous1944 · as Roberta Harper
Show-Business at War1943 · as Self
China1943 · as Carolyn Grant
A Night to Remember1942 · as Nancy Troy
Bedtime Story1941 · as Jane Drake
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 21941
The Men in Her Life1941 · as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
The Lady from Cheyenne1941 · as Annie Morgan
He Stayed for Breakfast1940 · as Marianna Duval
The Doctor Takes a Wife1940 · as June Cameron
Eternally Yours1939 · as Anita Halstead
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell1939 · as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Wife, Husband and Friend1939 · as Doris Borland
Kentucky1938 · as Sally Goodwin
Suez1938 · as Countess Eugenie de Montijo
Three Blind Mice1938 · as Pamela Charters
Four Men and a Prayer1938 · as Lynn Cherrington
Second Honeymoon1937 · as Vicky
Wife, Doctor and Nurse1937 · as Ina Heath Lewis
Love Under Fire1937 · as Myra Cooper
Café Metropole1937 · as Laura Ridgeway
Love Is News1937 · as Tony Gateson
Ladies in Love1936 · as Susie Schmidt
Ramona1936 · as Ramona
Private Number1936 · as Ellen Neal
The Unguarded Hour1936 · as Lady Helen Dearden
Hollywood Extra Girl1935 · as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Crusades1935 · as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
Call of the Wild1935 · as Claire Blake
Shanghai1935 · as Barbara Howard
Clive of India1935 · as Margaret Maskelyne
Caravan1934 · as Countess Wilma
The White Parade1934 · as June Arden
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back1934 · as Lola Field
Born to Be Bad1934 · as Letty Strong
The House of Rothschild1934 · as Julie Rothschild
Man's Castle1933 · as Trina
The Devil's in Love1933 · as Margot Lesesne
She Had to Say Yes1933 · as Florence 'Flo' Denny
Midnight Mary1933 · as Mary
Heroes for Sale1933 · as Ruth Loring
The Life of Jimmy Dolan1933 · as Peggy
Zoo in Budapest1933 · as Eve
Grand Slam1933 · as Marcia Stanislavsky
Employees' Entrance1933 · as Madeleine Walters West
They Call It Sin1932 · as Marion Cullen
Life Begins1932 · as Grace Sutton
Week-End Marriage1932 · as Lola Davis Hayes
Play Girl1932 · as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
The Hatchet Man1932 · as Sun Toya San
Taxi!1932 · as Sue Riley Nolan
Platinum Blonde1931 · as Gallagher
I Like Your Nerve1931 · as Diane Forsythe
The Ruling Voice1931 · as Gloria Bannister
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'1931
Big Business Girl1931 · as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
Too Young to Marry1931 · as Elaine Bumpstead
Three Girls Lost1931 · as Norene McMann
The Stolen Jools1931 · as Loretta Young
Beau Ideal1931 · as Isobel Brandon
The Devil to Pay!1930 · as Dorothy Hope
The Right of Way1930 · as Rosalie Evantural
War Nurse1930 · as Nurse (uncredited)
The Truth About Youth1930 · as Phyllis Ericson
Kismet1930 · as Marsinah
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee1930 · as Self
Road to Paradise1930 · as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan
The Second Floor Mystery1930 · as Marion Ferguson
Show Girl in Hollywood1930 · as Loretta Young
The Man from Blankley's1930 · as Margery Seaton
Loose Ankles1930 · as Ann
The Show of Shows1929 · as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
The Forward Pass1929 · as Patricia Carlyle
The Careless Age1929 · as Muriel
Fast Life1929 · as Patricia Mason Stratton
The Girl in the Glass Cage1929 · as Gladys Cosgrove
The Squall1929 · as Irma
Seven Footprints to Satan1929 · as One of Satan's Victims
The Head Man1928 · as Carol Watts
The Magnificent Flirt1928 · as Denise Laverne
Laugh, Clown, Laugh1928 · as Simonetta
The Whip Woman1928 · as The Girl
Scarlet Seas1928 · as Margaret Barbour
Her Wild Oat1927 · as Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)
Naughty But Nice1927 · as (uncredited)
The Sheik1921 · as Arab Child (uncredited)
White and Unmarried1921 · as Child (uncredited)
The Only Way1919 · as Child on Operating Table
Sirens of the Sea1917 · as Child (as Gretchen Young)
The Primrose Ring1917 · as Fairy (uncredited)

All TV Shows (131)

The New Loretta Young Show1962 · as Christine Massey
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Carol Brown
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Barbara Devon
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Self - Host
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ruth Baxter
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Margaret Channing
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kim Collet
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Helen Seaton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Judy Evans
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Laura Macklin
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Catherine Harding
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Mabel MacAfee
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Audrey Curtis
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Janice Hite
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Sister Ann
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Gerda Freuling
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Queen Nefertiti
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Victor Conrad
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Penelope Ashley
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ellie Winters
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Muriel Vail
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Miss Ryan
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Gretchen Brock-Miller
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Martha
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Countess
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Allison Bainworth
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Edie Royal
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Thelma Brown
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kiku Arikawa
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Susan Parker
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Countess Barocci
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Jean Kennedy
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Pam Gates
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Janet Forbes
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Judge Lila Brighton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Alma
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Beth Hammond
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Peggy Simms / Miss Connally
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Amy Stewart
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Maria Gordella
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Margaret Hutchins
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Eleanor Stark
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kay Mathews
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Taka
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Karima
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Susan Glover
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Madeliene Vanderhoff
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Connie Van
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Fay Davies
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Vera Wilson
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Norma Hutton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Alice Ward
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Audrey Dickerson
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Katharine
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Polly Fry
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Sally Hays
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Augusta Smith
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Anita Dodd
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Donna Landon
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Felice Minton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Betty Rogers
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Janet Barlow
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Irene Sherwood
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Dina
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Sylvia
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Katherine Ward
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Nora Halliday
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Margaret Underwood
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Louise Roberts
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Yuki Arakawa
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Linda Perkins
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Isobel DeHavilland
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Margo Randall
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Lucy Anderson
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Elizabeth Collier
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Harriet Sands
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Jenny
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Nancy Hamilton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Helen Talbot
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Betty Taylor
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Jane Seaton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kitty Coughlin
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Paula
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Irene Dodds
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Sally Webster
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Inga Helborg
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Alva Knox
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Madge Mason
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Marcy Thorne
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Miss Springs
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Susan Stevens - Stepmother
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Norma Kelvin
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Harriet Patton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Teddy Butler
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Rita Cole
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Dr. Juliet
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Elizabeth Stacey
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kathy Ames
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Mary Bertch
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Alison Ives
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Amanda Seaton
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Penny Blodgett
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Scottie
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Audrey - a teacher
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Suzie James
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Grace Hart
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Cora Skinner
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Lynn Roth
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Marcella Dawson
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Alice Hendricks
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Janet Pressman
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Susan Franklin
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ellen Morgan
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ayesha the Maharani
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Prudence Bixby
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Kiyoshi
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Charlotte Bronte
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Amy
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ethel Morris
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Lenore Kent
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Eve Wayne
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Self - Hostess
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Peg Lincoln
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Judy Cavanaugh
Letter to Loretta1953 · as May Ranson
Letter to Loretta1953 · as Emily Pierson
The Bob Hope Show1950 · as Self
Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee