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 devout Catholic, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
Born: January 6, 1913
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Known For
Mother Is a Freshman
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
The Stranger
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Golden Globe Awards
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Golden Globe Awards
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Bishop's Wife
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Heroes for Sale
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
Café Metropole
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Filmography
as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (voice)
as Grace Guthrie
as Amanda Kingsley
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Christine Massey
as Lucy Masters
as Carol Brown
as Barbara Devon
as Self - Host
as Ruth Baxter
as Margaret Channing
as Kim Collet
as Helen Seaton
as Judy Evans
as Laura Macklin
as Catherine Harding
as Mabel MacAfee
as Audrey Curtis
as Janice Hite
as Sister Ann
as Gerda Freuling
as Queen Nefertiti
as Victor Conrad
as Penelope Ashley
as Ellie Winters
as Muriel Vail
as Miss Ryan
as Gretchen Brock-Miller
as Martha
as Countess
as Allison Bainworth
as Edie Royal
as Thelma Brown
as Kiku Arikawa
as Susan Parker
as Countess Barocci
as Jean Kennedy
as Pam Gates
as Janet Forbes
as Judge Lila Brighton
as Alma
as Beth Hammond
as Peggy Simms / Miss Connally
as Amy Stewart
as Maria Gordella
as Margaret Hutchins
as Eleanor Stark
as Kay Mathews
as Taka
as Karima
as Susan Glover
as Madeliene Vanderhoff
as Connie Van
as Fay Davies
as Vera Wilson
as Norma Hutton
as Alice Ward
as Audrey Dickerson
as Katharine
as Polly Fry
as Sally Hays
as Augusta Smith
as Anita Dodd
as Donna Landon
as Felice Minton
as Betty Rogers
as Janet Barlow
as Irene Sherwood
as Dina
as Sylvia
as Katherine Ward
as Nora Halliday
as Margaret Underwood
as Louise Roberts
as Yuki Arakawa
as Linda Perkins
as Isobel DeHavilland
as Margo Randall
as Lucy Anderson
as Elizabeth Collier
as Harriet Sands
as Jenny
as Nancy Hamilton
as Helen Talbot
as Betty Taylor
as Jane Seaton
as Kitty Coughlin
as Paula
as Irene Dodds
as Sally Webster
as Inga Helborg
as Alva Knox
as Madge Mason
as Marcy Thorne
as Miss Springs
as Susan Stevens - Stepmother
as Norma Kelvin
as Harriet Patton
as Teddy Butler
as Rita Cole
as Dr. Juliet
as Elizabeth Stacey
as Kathy Ames
as Mary Bertch
as Alison Ives
as Amanda Seaton
as Penny Blodgett
as Scottie
as Audrey - a teacher
as Suzie James
as Grace Hart
as Cora Skinner
as Lynn Roth
as Marcella Dawson
as Alice Hendricks
as Janet Pressman
as Susan Franklin
as Ellen Morgan
as Ayesha the Maharani
as Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress
as Prudence Bixby
as Kiyoshi
as Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms
as Charlotte Bronte
as Amy
as Ethel Morris
as Lenore Kent
as Eve Wayne
as Self - Hostess
as Peg Lincoln
as Judy Cavanaugh
as Jane MacAvoy
as Christine Carroll Kimberly
as Paula Rogers
as Nora Gilpin
as Ellen Jones
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Clarissa Standish
as Sister Margaret
as Abigail Fortitude Abbott
as Dr. Wilma Tuttle
as Rachel
as Julia Brougham
as Katrin Holstrom
as Maggie Williams
as Mary Longstreet
as Cherry de Longpre
as Emily Blair
as Roberta Harper
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as Self
as Carolyn Grant
as Nancy Troy
as Jane Drake
as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
as Annie Morgan
as Marianna Duval
as June Cameron
as Anita Halstead
as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
as Doris Borland
as Sally Goodwin
as Countess Eugenie de Montijo
as Pamela Charters
as Lynn Cherrington
as Vicky
as Ina Heath Lewis
as Myra Cooper
as Laura Ridgeway
as Tony Gateson
as Susie Schmidt
as Ramona
as Ellen Neal
as Lady Helen Dearden
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
as Claire Blake
as Barbara Howard
as Margaret Maskelyne
as Countess Wilma
as June Arden
as Lola Field
as Letty Strong
as Julie Rothschild
as Trina
as Margot Lesesne
as Florence 'Flo' Denny
as Mary
as Ruth Loring
as Peggy
as Eve
as Marcia Stanislavsky
as Madeleine Walters West
as Marion Cullen
as Grace Sutton
as Lola Davis Hayes
as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
as Sun Toya San
as Sue Riley Nolan
as Gallagher
as Diane Forsythe
as Gloria Bannister
as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
as Elaine Bumpstead
as Norene McMann
as Loretta Young
as Isobel Brandon
as Dorothy Hope
as Rosalie Evantural
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Phyllis Ericson
as Marsinah
as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan
as Marion Ferguson
as Loretta Young
as Margery Seaton
as Ann
as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
as Patricia Carlyle
as Muriel
as Patricia Mason Stratton
as Gladys Cosgrove
as Irma
as One of Satan's Victims (uncredited)
as Carol Watts
as Denise Laverne
as Simonetta
as The Girl
as Margaret Barbour
as Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Arab Child (uncredited)
as Child (uncredited)
as Child on Operating Table
as Child (as Gretchen Young)
as Fairy (uncredited)