Loretta Young
Known for: Acting
Born: January 6, 1913
Died: August 12, 2000
Place of birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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.
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Filmography
122 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
6.1
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
6.0
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
6.9
Complicated Women
2003
6.8
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
8.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
19952.0
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995
4.5
Lady in a Corner
1989
6.0
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
6.8
Christmas Eve
1986
7.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
6.8
The Movie Orgy
1968
7.5
The New Loretta Young Show
1962
4.4
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
NR
The Spark
1961
6.6
Letter to Loretta
1953
6.3
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
6.6
Because of You
1952
8.2
Paula
1952
6.2
Half Angel
1951
5.9
Cause for Alarm!
1951
10.0
The Costume Designer
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
6.4
You Can Change The World
1950
6.5
Key to the City
1950
6.7
Come to the Stable
1949
9.0
Mother Is a Freshman
1949
6.1
The Accused
1949
6.5
Rachel and the Stranger
1948
7.1
The Bishop's Wife
1947
7.1
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
5.5
The Perfect Marriage
1947
7.2
The Stranger
1946
5.8
Along Came Jones
1945
6.0
And Now Tomorrow
1944
5.3
Ladies Courageous
1944
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
7.0
Show-Business at War
1943
6.9
China
1943
6.7
A Night to Remember
1942
5.8
Bedtime Story
1941
7.0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
6.7
The Men in Her Life
1941
5.7
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
8.0
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
6.8
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
5.9
Eternally Yours
1939
6.3
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
6.5
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
6.1
Kentucky
1938
5.5
Suez
1938
6.1
Three Blind Mice
1938
6.5
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
6.4
Second Honeymoon
1937
7.0
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
5.3
Love Under Fire
1937
7.3
Café Metropole
1937
6.3
Love Is News
1937
6.5
Ladies in Love
1936
5.8
Ramona
1936
6.7
Private Number
1936
6.4
The Unguarded Hour
1936
7.5
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935
6.4
The Crusades
1935
6.3
Call of the Wild
1935
7.3
Shanghai
1935
5.1
Clive of India
1935
6.5
Caravan
1934
6.8
The White Parade
1934
5.6
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
5.8
Born to Be Bad
1934
6.2
The House of Rothschild
1934
6.8
Man's Castle
1933
6.0
The Devil's in Love
1933
5.7
She Had to Say Yes
1933
6.8
Midnight Mary
1933
7.1
Heroes for Sale
1933
6.2
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
4.8
Zoo in Budapest
1933
4.6
Grand Slam
1933
6.1
Employees' Entrance
1933
6.0
They Call It Sin
1932
6.2
Life Begins
1932
5.5
Week-End Marriage
1932
5.0
Play Girl
1932
5.4
The Hatchet Man
1932
6.8
Taxi!
1932
6.7
Platinum Blonde
1931
5.9
I Like Your Nerve
1931
6.2
The Ruling Voice
1931
7.0
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
6.8
Big Business Girl
1931
8.0
Too Young to Marry
1931
8.0
Three Girls Lost
1931
5.6
The Stolen Jools
1931
4.5
Beau Ideal
1931
5.8
The Devil to Pay!
1930
5.2
The Right of Way
1930
5.2
War Nurse
1930
6.2
The Truth About Youth
1930
4.0
Kismet
1930
4.5
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
6.4
Road to Paradise
1930
8.0
The Second Floor Mystery
1930
5.8
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
7.0
The Man from Blankley's
1930
4.3
Loose Ankles
1930
6.6
The Show of Shows
1929
9.0
The Forward Pass
1929
8.0
The Careless Age
1929
9.0
Fast Life
1929
7.5
The Girl in the Glass Cage
1929
4.0
The Squall
1929
6.2
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
8.0
The Head Man
1928
7.0
The Magnificent Flirt
1928
7.4
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928
10.0
The Whip Woman
1928
4.0
Scarlet Seas
1928
10.0
Her Wild Oat
1927
9.0
Naughty But Nice
1927
5.9
The Sheik
1921
10.0
White and Unmarried
1921
7.0
The Only Way
1919
NR
Sirens of the Sea
1917
NR
The Primrose Ring
1917