Loretta Young
Actor, Film actor
1913 – 2000
Who was Loretta Young?
Loretta Young 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 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe in Christmas Eve in 1989. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1913
Salt Lake City - Also known as
- Gretchen Young
- Gretchen Michaela Young
- Attila the Nun
- Saint Loretta
- Michaela
- "Loretta"
- The Iron Butterfly
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Jean Louis
(1993/08/10 - 1997/04/20) - Tom Lewis
(1940/07/31 - 1969/08/20) - Grant Withers
(1930/01/26 - 1931/09/13)
- Jean Louis
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Ramona Convent Secondary School
- Lived in
- Salt Lake City
- Died
- Aug 12, 2000
Santa Monica - Resting place
- Holy Cross Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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