
Loretta Young
Acting
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…
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Gretchen Michaela Young · Gretchen Young · Лоретта Янг · Saint Loretta
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Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV

The Bob Hope Show
1950 · TV

Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV

The Stranger
1946 · Movie

The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Movie

The New Loretta Young Show
1962 · TV

The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie

Scarlet Seas
1928 · Movie

Half Angel
1951 · Movie

Call of the Wild
1935 · Movie

Along Came Jones
1945 · Movie

Ladies Courageous
1944 · Movie