Loretta Young

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1913-01-06 (87 years old)

Deathday

2000-08-12

Place of Birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Loretta Young

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 Cathol...

Acting

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1946

The Stranger

as Mary Longstreet

1931

Platinum Blonde

as Gallagher

1929

Seven Footprints to Satan

as One of Satan's Victims (uncredited)

1928

1917

Sirens of the Sea

as Child (as Gretchen Young)

1927

Naughty But Nice

as (uncredited)

1927

Her Wild Oat

as Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)

1928

The Head Man

as Carol Watts

1961

The Spark

as Lucy Masters

1951

Cause for Alarm!

as Ellen Jones

1949

The Accused

as Dr. Wilma Tuttle

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

as Katrin Holstrom

1947

The Perfect Marriage

as Maggie Williams

1933

Employees' Entrance

as Madeleine Walters West

1933

She Had to Say Yes

as Florence 'Flo' Denny

1933

Heroes for Sale

as Ruth Loring

1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

1947

The Bishop's Wife

as Julia Brougham

1941

Bedtime Story

as Jane Drake

1933

1937

Love Is News

as Tony Gateson

1931

Taxi!

as Sue Riley Nolan

1934

Born to Be Bad

as Letty Strong

1945

Along Came Jones

as Cherry de Longpre

1931

The Stolen Jools

as Loretta Young

1934

The White Parade

as June Arden

1934

The House of Rothschild

as Julie Rothschild

1939

Eternally Yours

as Anita Halstead

1942

A Night to Remember

as Nancy Troy

1935

The Crusades

as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre

1932

They Call It Sin

as Marion Cullen

1930

The Devil to Pay!

as Dorothy Hope

1935

Clive of India

as Margaret Maskelyne

1939

Wife, Husband and Friend

as Doris Borland

1949

Mother Is a Freshman

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

1940

1933

1949

Come to the Stable

as Sister Margaret

1933

Man's Castle

as Trina

1931

Big Business Girl

as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

1950

Key to the City

as Clarissa Standish

1951

Half Angel

as Nora Gilpin

1930

1944

And Now Tomorrow

as Emily Blair

1936

Ramona

as Ramona

1937

Love Under Fire

as Myra Cooper

1931

Beau Ideal

as Isobel Brandon

1938

Four Men and a Prayer

as Lynn Cherrington

1940

He Stayed for Breakfast

as Marianna Duval

1932

Week-End Marriage

as Lola Davis Hayes

1932

The Hatchet Man

as Sun Toya San

1938

Suez

as Countess Eugenie de Montijo

1932

Life Begins

as Grace Sutton

1935

Shanghai

as Barbara Howard

1935

Call of the Wild

as Claire Blake

1938

Kentucky

as Sally Goodwin

1931

I Like Your Nerve

as Diane Forsythe

1933

Grand Slam

as Marcia Stanislavsky

1943

China

as Carolyn Grant

1941

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Annie Morgan

1937

Café Metropole

as Laura Ridgeway

1930

The Second Floor Mystery

as Marion Ferguson

1929

The Squall

as Irma

1937

1930

Road to Paradise

as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan

1936

Ladies in Love

as Susie Schmidt

1930

The Truth About Youth

as Phyllis Ericson

1931

The Ruling Voice

as Gloria Bannister

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Lady Helen Dearden

2007

Girl 27

as Self (archive footage)

1930

The Right of Way

as Rosalie Evantural

1953

1952

Paula

as Paula Rogers

1932

Play Girl

as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

1952

Because of You

as Christine Carroll Kimberly

1933

The Devil's in Love

as Margot Lesesne

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Pamela Charters

1936

Private Number

as Ellen Neal

1930

Kismet

as Marsinah

2006

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self - 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

1929

The Forward Pass

as Patricia Carlyle

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Loretta Young

1929

The Show of Shows

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

1937

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

as Ina Heath Lewis

1928

Scarlet Seas

as Margaret Barbour

1930

War Nurse

as Nurse (uncredited)

1934

Caravan

as Countess Wilma

1944

Ladies Courageous

as Roberta Harper

1986

Christmas Eve

as Amanda Kingsley

1941

The Men in Her Life

as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

1931

Three Girls Lost

as Norene McMann

1929

Fast Life

as Patricia Mason Stratton

1931

Too Young to Marry

as Elaine Bumpstead

1989

Lady in a Corner

as Grace Guthrie

1929

The Girl in the Glass Cage

as Gladys Cosgrove

1921

The Sheik

as Arab Child (uncredited)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1929

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1950

The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

1930

The Man from Blankley's

as Margery Seaton

2000

1928

The Magnificent Flirt

as Denise Laverne

2008

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

1935

Hollywood Extra Girl

as Crusades Actor (uncredited)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1917

The Primrose Ring

as Fairy (uncredited)

1919

The Only Way

as Child on Operating Table

1921

White and Unmarried

as Child (uncredited)

1928

The Whip Woman

as The Girl

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