Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer’s Daughter. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961.
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Loretta Young was an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer’s Daughter. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe forHer role in Christmas Eve in 1986. Young was born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Gladys and John Earle Young. When she was two years old, her parents separated, and when she was three, her mother moved the family to Hollywood. Young’s first role was at the age of two or three in the silent film Sweet Kitty Bellairs. She was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband and manager of actress Colleen Moore, who saw the young girl’s potential. Moore gave her the name Loretta, explaining that it was the name of her favorite doll. Young eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers in 1930, and they were married in Yuma, Arizona. In 1934 she co-starred with Cary Grant in Born to be Bad, and in 1935 was billed with Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in The Call of the Wild, directed by William Wellman.
During World War II, Young made Ladies Courageous, the fictionalized story of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. In 1953, she appeared in her last theatrical film, It Happens Every Thursday, a Universal comedy about a New York couple who move to California to take over a struggling weekly newspaper; her co- star was John Forsythe. The next year, she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. She earned three Emmy awards for the program. Her trademark was a dramatic entrance through a living room door in various high-fashion evening gowns. She returned at the program’s conclusion to offer a brief passage from the Bible or a famous quote that reflected upon the evening’s story. The program ran in prime time on NBC for eight years, the longest-running primetime network program hosted by a woman up to that time. It was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. It also appeared in daytime by NBC from 1960 to 1964. In 1962–1963, Young appeared as Christine Massey, a freelance writer and mother of seven children.
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