
Loretta Young
Acting • Born 1913-01-06 – Died 2000-08-12
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.
Filmography
249 credits
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)

The Stranger
Movie • 1946
Mary Longstreet

Platinum Blonde
Movie • 1931
Gallagher

Seven Footprints to Satan
Movie • 1929
One of Satan's Victims

Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Movie • 1928
Simonetta

Her Wild Oat
Movie • 1927
Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)

The Head Man
Movie • 1928
Carol Watts

Naughty But Nice
Movie • 1927
(uncredited)

Sirens of the Sea
Movie • 1917
Child (as Gretchen Young)

The Spark
Movie • 1961
Lucy Masters

Cause for Alarm!
Movie • 1951
Ellen Jones

The Accused
Movie • 1949
Dr. Wilma Tuttle

Rachel and the Stranger
Movie • 1948
Rachel

The Farmer's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Katrin Holstrom

The Perfect Marriage
Movie • 1947
Maggie Williams

Employees' Entrance
Movie • 1933
Madeleine Walters West

She Had to Say Yes
Movie • 1933
Florence 'Flo' Denny

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Movie • 1995
Self

Heroes for Sale
Movie • 1933
Ruth Loring

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Julia Brougham

Bedtime Story
Movie • 1941
Jane Drake

Midnight Mary
Movie • 1933
Mary

Love Is News
Movie • 1937
Tony Gateson

Taxi!
Movie • 1932
Sue Riley Nolan

Born to Be Bad
Movie • 1934
Letty Strong

Along Came Jones
Movie • 1945
Cherry de Longpre

The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Loretta Young

The White Parade
Movie • 1934
June Arden

The House of Rothschild
Movie • 1934
Julie Rothschild

Eternally Yours
Movie • 1939
Anita Halstead

A Night to Remember
Movie • 1942
Nancy Troy

The Crusades
Movie • 1935
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre

They Call It Sin
Movie • 1932
Marion Cullen

The Devil to Pay!
Movie • 1930
Dorothy Hope

Clive of India
Movie • 1935
Margaret Maskelyne

Wife, Husband and Friend
Movie • 1939
Doris Borland

Mother Is a Freshman
Movie • 1949
Abigail Fortitude Abbott

The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
June Cameron

Zoo in Budapest
Movie • 1933
Eve

Come to the Stable
Movie • 1949
Sister Margaret

Man's Castle
Movie • 1933
Trina

Big Business Girl
Movie • 1931
Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

Key to the City
Movie • 1950
Clarissa Standish

Half Angel
Movie • 1951
Nora Gilpin

Loose Ankles
Movie • 1930
Ann

And Now Tomorrow
Movie • 1944
Emily Blair

Ramona
Movie • 1936
Ramona

Love Under Fire
Movie • 1937
Myra Cooper

Beau Ideal
Movie • 1931
Isobel Brandon

Four Men and a Prayer
Movie • 1938
Lynn Cherrington

He Stayed for Breakfast
Movie • 1940
Marianna Duval

Week-End Marriage
Movie • 1932
Lola Davis Hayes

The Hatchet Man
Movie • 1932
Sun Toya San

Suez
Movie • 1938
Countess Eugenie de Montijo

Life Begins
Movie • 1932
Grace Sutton

Shanghai
Movie • 1935
Barbara Howard

Kentucky
Movie • 1938
Sally Goodwin

Call of the Wild
Movie • 1935
Claire Blake

I Like Your Nerve
Movie • 1931
Diane Forsythe

Grand Slam
Movie • 1933
Marcia Stanislavsky

China
Movie • 1943
Carolyn Grant

The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
Annie Morgan

Café Metropole
Movie • 1937
Laura Ridgeway

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Movie • 1934
Lola Field

The Second Floor Mystery
Movie • 1930
Marion Ferguson

The Squall
Movie • 1929
Irma

Second Honeymoon
Movie • 1937
Vicky

Road to Paradise
Movie • 1930
Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan

Ladies in Love
Movie • 1936
Susie Schmidt

The Truth About Youth
Movie • 1930
Phyllis Ericson

The Ruling Voice
Movie • 1931
Gloria Bannister

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Unguarded Hour
Movie • 1936
Lady Helen Dearden

The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Movie • 1933
Peggy

The Right of Way
Movie • 1930
Rosalie Evantural

It Happens Every Thursday
Movie • 1953
Jane MacAvoy

Paula
Movie • 1952
Paula Rogers

Play Girl
Movie • 1932
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

Because of You
Movie • 1952
Christine Carroll Kimberly

The Devil's in Love
Movie • 1933
Margot Lesesne

Three Blind Mice
Movie • 1938
Pamela Charters

Private Number
Movie • 1936
Ellen Neal

Kismet
Movie • 1930
Marsinah

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)

The Forward Pass
Movie • 1929
Patricia Carlyle

Show Girl in Hollywood
Movie • 1930
Loretta Young

The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Ina Heath Lewis

Scarlet Seas
Movie • 1928
Margaret Barbour

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Movie • 1930
Self

War Nurse
Movie • 1930
Nurse (uncredited)

Caravan
Movie • 1934
Countess Wilma

Ladies Courageous
Movie • 1944
Roberta Harper

Christmas Eve
Movie • 1986
Amanda Kingsley

The Men in Her Life
Movie • 1941
Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

Three Girls Lost
Movie • 1931
Norene McMann

Fast Life
Movie • 1929
Patricia Mason Stratton

Too Young to Marry
Movie • 1931
Elaine Bumpstead

Lady in a Corner
Movie • 1989
Grace Guthrie

The Girl in the Glass Cage
Movie • 1929
Gladys Cosgrove

The Sheik
Movie • 1921
Arab Child (uncredited)

Show-Business at War
Movie • 1943
Self

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)

The Careless Age
Movie • 1929
Muriel

Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)

You Can Change The World
Movie • 1950
Self

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Movie • 1931

The Costume Designer
Movie • 1950
Self (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Movie • 1941

The Man from Blankley's
Movie • 1930
Margery Seaton

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
Movie • 2000
Self (voice)

The Magnificent Flirt
Movie • 1928
Denise Laverne

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Movie • 2008
Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

Hollywood Extra Girl
Movie • 1935
Crusades Actor (uncredited)

White and Unmarried
Movie • 1921
Child (uncredited)

The Primrose Ring
Movie • 1917
Fairy (uncredited)

The Only Way
Movie • 1919
Child on Operating Table

The Whip Woman
Movie • 1928
The Girl

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie • 1987
Self

The New Loretta Young Show
TV • 1962
Christine Massey

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Carol Brown

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Barbara Devon

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Self - Host

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ruth Baxter

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Margaret Channing

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kim Collet

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Helen Seaton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Judy Evans

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Laura Macklin

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Catherine Harding

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mabel MacAfee

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Audrey Curtis

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Janice Hite

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Sister Ann

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Gerda Freuling

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Queen Nefertiti

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Victor Conrad

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Penelope Ashley

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ellie Winters

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Muriel Vail

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Miss Ryan

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Gretchen Brock-Miller

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Martha

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Countess

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Allison Bainworth

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Edie Royal

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Thelma Brown

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kiku Arikawa

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Susan Parker

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Countess Barocci

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Jean Kennedy

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Pam Gates

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Janet Forbes

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Judge Lila Brighton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Alma

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Beth Hammond

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Peggy Simms / Miss Connally

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Amy Stewart

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Maria Gordella

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Margaret Hutchins

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Eleanor Stark

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kay Mathews

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Taka

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Karima

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Susan Glover

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Madeliene Vanderhoff

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Connie Van

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Fay Davies

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Vera Wilson

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Norma Hutton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Alice Ward

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Audrey Dickerson

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Katharine

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Polly Fry

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Sally Hays

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Augusta Smith

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Anita Dodd

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Donna Landon

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Felice Minton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Betty Rogers

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Janet Barlow

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Irene Sherwood

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Dina

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Sylvia

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Katherine Ward

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Nora Halliday

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Margaret Underwood

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Louise Roberts

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Yuki Arakawa

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Linda Perkins

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Isobel DeHavilland

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Margo Randall

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Lucy Anderson

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Elizabeth Collier

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Harriet Sands

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Jenny

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Nancy Hamilton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Helen Talbot

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Betty Taylor

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Jane Seaton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kitty Coughlin

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Paula

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Irene Dodds

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Sally Webster

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Inga Helborg

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Alva Knox

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Madge Mason

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Marcy Thorne

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Miss Springs

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Susan Stevens - Stepmother

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Norma Kelvin

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Harriet Patton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Teddy Butler

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Rita Cole

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Dr. Juliet

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Elizabeth Stacey

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kathy Ames

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mary Bertch

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Alison Ives

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Amanda Seaton

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Penny Blodgett

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Scottie

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Audrey - a teacher

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Suzie James

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Grace Hart

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Cora Skinner

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Lynn Roth

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Marcella Dawson

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Alice Hendricks

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Janet Pressman

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Susan Franklin

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ellen Morgan

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ayesha the Maharani

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Prudence Bixby

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Kiyoshi

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Charlotte Bronte

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Amy

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ethel Morris

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Lenore Kent

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Eve Wayne

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Self - Hostess

Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Peg Lincoln

The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self

Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Judy Cavanaugh