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Loretta Young (1913–2000)

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Sweet, sweeter, sweetest. No combination of terms better describes the screen persona of lovely Loretta Young. When Gretchen Young was three years old, her mother took her and her sisters to Hollywood, where she established a boarding house. Gretchen was appearing on screen as a child extra by the time she was four... See full bio »

Born:

Gretchen Michaela Young
in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Died:

(age 87) in Los Angeles, California, USA
Loretta Young circa 1940 Still of Lon Chaney and Loretta Young in Laugh, Clown, Laugh Loretta Young Loretta Young July 1988
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1994 Life Along the Mississippi (TV movie)
Narrator (voice)
 
1989 Lady in the Corner (TV movie)
Grace Guthrie
 
1986 Christmas Eve (TV movie)
Amanda Kingsley
 
1962-1963 The New Loretta Young Show (TV series)
Christine Massey
– When You Are Near (1963) … Christine Massey
– It's Spring Again (1963) … Christine Massey
– Interesting Jeopardy (1963) … Christine Massey
– Crisis at 8 P.M. (1963) … Christine Massey
– Hey Rube (1963) … Christine Massey
See all 26 episodes »
 
1953-1961 The Loretta Young Show (TV series)
Inga Helborg / Sister Ann / Edie Royal / …
– Not in Our Stars (1961) … Harriet Sands
– The Forbidden Guests (1961) … Elizabeth Collier
– The Wedding (1961) … Ruth Harron
– Emergency in 114 (1961) … Lucy Anderson
– Doesn't Everybody? (1961) … Margo Randall
See all 163 episodes »
 
1953 It Happens Every Thursday
Jane MacAvoy
 
1952 Because of You
Christine Carroll Kimberly
 
1952 Paula
Paula Rogers
 
1951 Half Angel
Nora Gilpin
 
1951 Cause for Alarm!
Ellen Jones
 
1950 Key to the City
Clarissa Standish
 
1949 Come to the Stable
Sister Margaret
 
1949 Mother Is a Freshman
Abigail Fortitude Abbott
 
1949 The Accused
Dr. Wilma Tuttle
 
1948 Rachel and the Stranger
Rachel Harvey
 
1947 The Bishop's Wife
Julia Brougham
 
1947 The Farmer's Daughter
Katrin Holstrom
 
1947 The Perfect Marriage
Maggie Williams
 
1946 The Stranger
Mary Longstreet
 
1945 Along Came Jones
Cherry de Longpre
 
1944 And Now Tomorrow
Emily Blair
 
1944 Ladies Courageous
Roberta Harper
 
1943 China
Carolyn Grant
 
1942 A Night to Remember
Nancy Troy
 
1941 Bedtime Story
Jane Drake
 
1941 The Men in Her Life
Lina Varsavina
 
1941 The Lady from Cheyenne
Annie Morgan
 
1940 He Stayed for Breakfast
Marianna Duval
 
1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife
June Cameron
 
1939 Eternally Yours
Anita Halstead
 
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
 
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
Doris Borland
 
1938 Kentucky
Sally Goodwin
 
1938 Suez
Countess Eugenie de Montijo
 
1938 Three Blind Mice
Pamela Charters
 
1938 Four Men and a Prayer
Miss Lynn Cherrington
 
1937 Second Honeymoon
Vicky
 
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Ina Heath Lewis
 
1937 Love Under Fire
Myra Cooper
 
1937 Café Metropole
Laura Ridgeway
 
1937 Love Is News
Tony Gateson
 
1936 Ladies in Love
Susie Schmidt
 
1936 Ramona
Ramona
 
1936 Private Number
Ellen Neal
 
1936 The Unguarded Hour
Lady Helen Dearden
 
1935 Hollywood Extra Girl (documentary short)
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
 
1935 The Crusades
Berengaria - Princess of Navarre
 
1935 The Call of the Wild
Claire Blake
 
1935 Shanghai
Barbara Howard
 
1935 Clive of India
Margaret Maskelyne Clive
 
1934 The White Parade
June Arden
 
1934 Caravan
Countess Wilma
 
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Lola Field
 
1934 Born to Be Bad
Letty Strong
 
1934 The House of Rothschild
Julie Rothschild
 
1933 Man's Castle
Trina
 
1933 The Devil's in Love
Margot Lesesne
 
1933 She Had to Say Yes
Florence 'Flo' Denny
 
1933 Midnight Mary
Mary
 
1933 Heroes for Sale
Ruth
 
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Peggy
 
1933 Zoo in Budapest
Eve
 
1933 Grand Slam
Marcia Stanislavsky
 
1933 Employees' Entrance
Madeline
 
1932 They Call It Sin
Marion Cullen
 
1932 Life Begins
Grace Sutton
 
1932 Week-End Marriage
Lola Davis Hayes
 
1932 Play-Girl
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
 
1932 The Hatchet Man
Sun Toya San
 
1932 Taxi!
Sue Riley Nolan
 
1931 The Ruling Voice
Gloria Bannister
 
1931 Platinum Blonde
Gallagher
 
1931 I Like Your Nerve
Diane Forsythe
 
1931 Big Business Girl
Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
 
1931 Too Young to Marry
Elaine Bumpstead
 
1931 Three Girls Lost
Norene McMann
 
1931 The Stolen Jools (short)
Loretta Young
 
1931 The Right of Way
Rosalie Evantural
 
1931 Beau Ideal
Isobel Brandon
 
1931 How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie' (short)
Loretta (uncredited)
 
1930 The Devil to Pay!
Dorothy Hope
 
1930 The Truth About Youth
Phyllis Ericson
 
1930 Kismet
Marsinah
 
1930 War Nurse
Nurse (uncredited)
 
1930 Road to Paradise
Mary Brennan/Margaret Waring
 
1930 The Second Floor Mystery
Marion Ferguson
 
1930 Show Girl in Hollywood
Cameo Appearance at Premiere (uncredited)
 
1930 The Man from Blankley's
Margery Seaton
 
1930 Loose Ankles
Ann Harper
 
1929 The Show of Shows
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
 
1929 The Forward Pass
Patricia Carlyle
 
1929 The Careless Age
Muriel
 
1929 Fast Life
Patricia Mason Stratton
 
1929 The Girl in the Glass Cage
Gladys Cosgrove
 
1929 The Squall
Irma
 
1929 Seven Footprints to Satan
Victim (uncredited)
 
1928 Scarlet Seas
Margaret Barbour
 
1928 The Head Man
Carol Watts
 
1928 The Magnificent Flirt
Denise Laverne
 
1928 Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Simonetta
 
1928 The Whip Woman
The Girl
 
1927 Her Wild Oat
Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)
 
1927 Naughty But Nice (uncredited)
 
1921 The Sheik
Arab Child (uncredited)
 
1921 White and Unmarried
Child (uncredited)
 
1919/I The Only Way
Child on Operating Table
 
1917 Sirens of the Sea
Child (as Gretchen Young)
 
1917 The Primrose Ring
Fairy (uncredited)
 
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1951 Half Angel (performer: "My Castle in the Sand")
 
1945 Along Came Jones ("On Top of Old Smoky" - uncredited)
 
1937 Love Is News (performer: "The Prisoner's Song" 1924 - uncredited)
 
1936 Ramona (performer: "Under the Redwood Tree" 1936 - uncredited)
 
1936 Ladies in Love (performer: "Three Blind Mice" - uncredited)
 
1932 Taxi! (performer: "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" 1917 - uncredited)
 
1930 The Devil to Pay! (performer: "Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May" - uncredited)
 
1929 The Show of Shows (performer: "My Sister" 1929 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (20 titles)
2000 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (TV documentary)
Herself (voice)
 
1995 Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1994 The Great Steamboat Race (TV documentary)
Narrator
 
1987 The USA Today's 5th Anniversary Gala (TV movie)
Herself
 
1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1987 The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)
Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
 
1985 All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV movie)
Herself
 
1982 The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary)
Herself - Presenter: Best Picture
 
1979 The 16th Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner of National Conference of Christians and Jews (TV movie)
Herself
 
1969 The 41st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Audience Member
 
1961 The 13th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Nominee: Best Performance by Lead Actress in a Series and Presenter
 
1956-1961 The Loretta Young Show (TV series)
Herself-Hostess / Herself - Hostess
– Those at the Top (1961) … Herself-Hostess
– 13 Donner Street (1961) … Herself - Hostess
– The Man Who Couldn't Smile (1961) … Herself-Hostess
– Woodlot (1961) … Herself-Hostess
– When Queens Ride By (1961) … Herself-Hostess
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1953 The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Special Effects
 
1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (documentary short)
Herself
 
1951 You Can Change the World (documentary short)
Herself
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1941 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (documentary short)
Herself - at Motion Picture Home Dedication (uncredited)
 
1940 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (documentary short)
Herself, Polo Fan
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (short)
Herself
 
1930 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (18 titles)
2012 Ninja the Mission Force (TV series)
 
2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TV documentary)
Madeleine Walters West
 
2004 Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Son (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Christmas from Hollywood (video documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2001 The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself (Memorial Tribute)
 
2001 The Orange British Academy Film Awards (TV special)
Herself (Memorial Tribute)
 
1998-1999 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1988 Hunter (TV series)
 
1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1979 Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (TV documentary)
Herself - Oscar Dinner, 1942 (uncredited)
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
Herself
 
1969 Hollywood: The Selznick Years (TV documentary)
Herself, film clip (screen test for 'Rebecca') (uncredited)
 
1955 Screen Snapshots 7855: Pennies from Hollywood (short)
Herself
 
1950 The Costume Designer (documentary short)
 
1948 Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (short)
Herself
 
1939 Land of Liberty
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1948) Print ad (w/David Niven): General Electric electronic television. See more »

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6 Print Biographies  | 5 Articles  | 21 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Gretchen Young

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Personal Quote:

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world. See more »

Trivia:

Country singer Loretta Lynn was named after her. See more »

Nickname:

Saint Loretta See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn