Loretta Young (born Gretchen 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 Academy Award for Best Actress 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 was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986.

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Loretta Young-  Actress, Television host.

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1. Profile :

*Studio portrait of Young, 1940s

#Born    Gretchen Young
January 6, 1913
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

#Died    August 12, 2000 (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place    Holy Cross Cemetery

*Occupation      Actress, television host
*Years active      1917–1994

#Spouse(s)   

Grant Withers
(m. 1930; annulled 1931)

Tom Lewis
(m. 1940; div. 1969)

Jean Louis
(m. 1993; died 1997)

#Children   

    Judy Lewis
    Christopher Lewis
    Peter Lewis

Relatives    Polly Ann Young (sister)
Sally Blane (sister)
Georgiana Young (maternal sister)
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2. Introduction :

Loretta Young (born Gretchen 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 Academy Award for Best Actress 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 was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986.
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3. Early life :

She was born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Gladys (née Royal) and John Earle Young. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. When she was two years old, her parents separated, and when she was three, her family and she moved to Hollywood. Her sisters Polly Ann and Elizabeth Jane (better known as Sally Blane) and she worked as child actresses, but of the three, Gretchen was the most successful.

Young's first role was at the age of two or three, in the silent film Sweet Kitty Bellairs. During her high-school years, she was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School. She was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband and manager of actress Colleen Moore, who saw the young girl's potential. The forename Loretta was given to her by Moore, who later explained it was the name of her favorite doll.
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4. Career :

4.1 Film :

*Young in 1930 :

Young was billed as Gretchen Young in the silent film Sirens of the Sea (1917). She was first billed as Loretta Young in 1928, in The Whip Woman. That same year, she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The next year, she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.

In 1930, when she was 17, she eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers; they were married in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (ironically entitled Too Young to Marry) was released.

In 1935, she co-starred with Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in the film version of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, directed by William Wellman.

During World War II, Young made Ladies Courageous (1944; re-issued as Fury in the Sky), the fictionalized story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. It depicted a unit of female pilots who flew bomber planes from the factories to their final destinations. Young made as many as eight movies a year. In 1947, she won an Oscar for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter. That same year, she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination for Come to the Stable. 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.
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4.2 Television :

*From the trailer for Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Young hosted and starred in the well-received half-hour anthology television series Letter to Loretta (soon retitled The Loretta Young Show), which was originally broadcast from 1953 to 1961. 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. (Young's introductions and concluding remarks were not re-run on television because she legally stipulated that they not be, as she did not want the dresses she wore in those segments to make the program seem dated.) 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.

The program was based on the premise that each drama was in answer to a question asked in her fan mail. The title was changed to The Loretta Young Show during the first season (as of the episode of February 14, 1954), and the "letter" concept was dropped at the end of the second season. Towards the end of the second season, Young was hospitalized as a result of overwork, which required a number of guest hosts and guest stars; her first appearance in the 1955–1956 season was for the Christmas show. From then on, Young appeared in only about half of each season's shows as an actress, and served as the program's host for the remainder.

Minus Young's introductions and conclusions, the series was re-run as the Loretta Young Theatre in daytime by NBC from 1960 to 1964. It also appeared in syndication into the early 1970s before being withdrawn.

In the 1962–1963 television season, Young appeared as Christine Massey, a freelance magazine writer and the mother of seven children, in The New Loretta Young Show, on CBS. It fared poorly in the ratings on Monday evenings against ABC's Ben Casey. It was dropped after one season of 26 episodes.

In the 1990s, selected episodes from Young's personal collection, with the opening and closing segments (and original title) intact, were released on home video and frequently shown on cable television.
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5. Awards :

In 1988, Young received the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who through their endurance and the excellence of their work helped expand the role of women in the entertainment industry.

Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for her work in television, at 6135 Hollywood Boulevard, and the other for her work in motion pictures, at 6100 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2011, a Golden Palm Star on the Walk of Stars, in Palm Springs, California, was dedicated to her.
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6. Personal life :

*Young in 1938

Young was married three times and had three children. Her first marriage was to 1.*actor Grant Withers in 1930. The marriage was annulled the following year. From September 1933 to June 1934, she had a well publicized affair with actor Spencer Tracy (who was married to Louise Tracy), her co-star in Man's Castle. In 1940, Young married 2*producer Tom Lewis. They had two sons: Peter Lewis (of the San Francisco rock band Moby Grape); and Christopher Lewis, a film director. Young and Lewis divorced bitterly in the mid-1960s.

In 1993, Young married for the third and final time, to the 3*fashion designer Jean Louis. Their marriage lasted until his death in April 1997. Young was godmother to Marlo Thomas (daughter of TV star Danny Thomas).

A smoker since the age of eight, Young quit the habit in the mid-1980s to gain 10 pounds.
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Affair with Clark Gable :

*Young and Clark Gable Film Still

Young and Clark Gable were the romantic leads of the 1935 Twentieth Century Pictures film The Call of the Wild, which was filmed early in that year. Young was then 22 years old; Gable was 34 and married to Maria “Ria” Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham. During filming, Young and Gable had an affair resulting in Young becoming pregnant.

Young did not want to damage her career or Gable's, and she knew that if Twentieth Century Pictures found out about the pregnancy, they would try to pressure her to have an abortion, which Young, a devout Catholic, considered a mortal sin. Young, her sisters, and her mother came up with a plan to hide the pregnancy and then pass off the child as adopted. When Young’s pregnancy began to advance, she went on a "vacation" to England, and several months later returned to California. Shortly before the birth, she gave an interview from her bed, covered in blankets, stating that her long movie absence was due to a condition she had had since childhood. Young gave birth to a daughter, Judith, on November 6, 1935, in a house that her mother and she owned in Venice, California. Young named Judith after St. Jude, because he was the patron saint of (among other things) difficult situations. Weeks after her birth, Judith was placed in an orphanage. Judith would spend the next 19 months in various "hideaways and orphanages", before being re-united with her mother; Young then claimed that she had adopted Judith. After Young married Tom Lewis, Judith took Lewis's last name.

Few in Hollywood were fooled by the ruse, and Judy Lewis's true parentage was widely rumored in entertainment circles. When Lewis was 31 years old, she confronted Young about her parentage; Young privately admitted the truth, stating that Judy was "a walking mortal sin". Young refused to confirm or comment publicly on the rumors until 1999, when Joan Wester Anderson wrote Young's authorized biography. In interviews with Anderson for the book, Young stated that Judy was her biological child and the product of a brief affair with Gable.

In 2015, Linda Lewis, Young's daughter-in-law (and Christopher Lewis's wife) stated publicly that in 1998, Young told Lewis that Gable had raped her and that though the two had flirted on set, no affair and no intimate contact had occurred save for that one incident. Young had not revealed the information before to anyone. According to Lewis, Young stated this only after learning of the concept of date rape; she had previously always believed it was a woman's job to fend off men's amorous advances and had felt the fact that Gable had been able to force himself on her was thus a moral failing on her part. Linda Lewis said the family stayed silent about the date rape claim until after both Loretta Young and Judy Lewis had died.
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7. Politics :

Young was a life-long Republican. In 1952, she appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower in his campaign for US president. She attended his inauguration in 1953 along with Anita Louise, Louella Parsons, Jane Russell, Dick Powell, June Allyson, and Lou Costello, among others. She was a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in their presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1980, respectively. Young was also an active member of the Hollywood Republican Committee, with her close friends Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, William Holden, George Murphy, Fred Astaire, and John Wayne.
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8. Later life :

From the time of Young's retirement in the 1960s until not long before her death, she devoted herself to volunteer work for charities and churches with her friends of many years: Jane Wyman, Irene Dunne, and Rosalind Russell. She was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, also worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career. Young briefly came out of retirement to star in two television films: Christmas Eve (1986) and Lady in the Corner (1989). She won a Golden Globe Award for the former, and was nominated for the latter.

In 1972, a jury in Los Angeles awarded Young $550,000 in a lawsuit against NBC for breach of contract. Filed in 1966, the suit contended that NBC had allowed foreign television outlets to re-run old episodes of The Loretta Young Show without excluding, as agreed by the parties, the opening segment in which Young made her entrance. Young testified that her image had been damaged by portraying her in "outdated gowns". She had sought damages of $1.9 million.
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9. Death :

*Obituary Photos Honoring Loretta Young - Tributes

Young died of ovarian cancer on August 12, 2000, at the home of her maternal sister, Georgiana Montalbán (the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban), in Santa Monica, California. She was interred in the family plot in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Her ashes were buried in the grave of her mother, Gladys Belzer.
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10. Filmography :

Year     Title     Role     Notes

1916     Sweet Kitty Bellairs     unknown     Lost; uncredited

1917     The Primrose Ring     Fairy     Lost; uncredited
1917     Sirens of the Sea     Child     As Gretchen Young

1919     The Only Way     Child on operating table
   
1921     White and Unmarried     Child     Uncredited
1921     The Sheik     Arab child     Extant; uncredited

1927     Naughty But Nice     Bit part     Extant; uncredited
1927     Her Wild Oat     Bit by ping pong table     Extant; uncredited
1927     Orchids and Ermine     unknown     Extant; uncredited

1928     The Whip Woman     The Girl     Lost
1928     Laugh, Clown, Laugh     Simonetta     Extant; made at MGM
1928     The Magnificent Flirt     Denise Laverne     Lost; made at Paramount Pictures
1928     The Head Man     Carol Watts     Lost
1928     Scarlet Seas     Margaret Barbour     Extant (Vitaphone track of music and effects survives). Picture elements discovered at Cineteca Italiana, Milan

1929     Seven Footprints to Satan     One of Satan's victims     Extant; uncredited
1929     The Squall     Irma     Extant, in Library of Congress
1929     The Girl in the Glass Cage     Gladys Cosgrove     Lost
1929     Fast Life     Patricia Mason Stratton     Lost (Vitaphone soundtrack discs at UCLA Film and Television)

1929     The Careless Age     Muriel     Lost
1929     The Forward Pass     Patricia Carlyle     Lost
1929     The Show of Shows     "Meet My Sister" number     Extant, in Library of Congress

1930     Loose Ankles     Ann Harper Berry     Extant, in Library of Congress
1930     The Man from Blankley's     Margery Seaton     Lost (Vitaphone soundtrack discs at UCLA Film and Television)

1930     Show Girl in Hollywood         Extant, in Library of Congress; uncredited
1930     The Second Floor Mystery     Marion Ferguson     Extant, in Library of Congress
1930     Road to Paradise     Mary Brennan/Margaret Waring     Extant, in Library of Congress
1930     Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner     Herself     Short subject
1930     Kismet     Marsinah     Lost (Vitaphone soundtrack discs at UCLA Film and Television)
1930     War Nurse     Nurse     Extant; made at MGM; uncredited (Young's scenes deleted)
1930     The Truth About Youth     Phyllis Ericson     Extant, in Library of Congress
1930     The Devil to Pay!     Dorothy Hope     Extant; produced by Samuel Goldwyn; released by United Artists

1931     How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: "The Brassie"     Herself     Short subject
1931     Beau Ideal     Isobel Brandon     Extant; made at RKO
1931     The Right of Way     Rosalie Evantural     Extant, in Library of Congress
1931     The Stolen Jools     Herself     Short subject
1931     Three Girls Lost     Norene McMann     Extant
1931     Too Young to Marry     Elaine Bumpstead     Extant, in Library of Congress
1931     Big Business Girl     Claie "Mac" McIntyre     Extant, in Library of Congress
1931     I Like Your Nerve     Diane Forsythe     Extant, in Library of Congress
1931     The Ruling Voice     Gloria Bannister     Extant, in Library of Congress
1931          Platinum Blonde     Gallagher    

1932     Taxi!     Sue Riley Nolan     Extant, in Library of Congress
1932     The Hatchet Man     Sun Toya San     Extant, in Library of Congress; original title The Honorable Mr. Wong

1932     Play-Girl     Buster "Bus" Green Dennis     Extant, in Library of Congress
1932     Week-End Marriage     Lola Davis Hayes     Extant, in Library of Congress
1932     Life Begins     Grace Sutton     Extant, in Library of Congress
1932          They Call It Sin     Marion Cullen     Extant, in Library of Congress

1933     Employees' Entrance     Madeleine Walters West     Extant, in Library of Congress
1933     Grand Slam     Marcia Stanislavsky     Extant, in Library of Congress
1933     Zoo in Budapest     Eve     Extant
1933     The Life of Jimmy Dolan     Peggy     Extant, in Library of Congress
1933     Heroes for Sale     Ruth Loring Holmes     Extant, in Library of Congress
1933     Midnight Mary     Mary Martin    
1933     She Had to Say Yes     Florence "Flo" Denny     Extant, in Library of Congress
1933     The Devil's in Love     Margot Lesesne     Extant
1933         Man's Castle     Trina     Extant

1934     The House of Rothschild     Julie Rothschild    
1934     Born to Be Bad     Letty Strong    
1934     Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back     Lola Field    
1934     Caravan     Countess Wilma    
1934     The White Parade     June Arden

1935     Clive of India     Margaret Maskelyne Clive    
1935     Shanghai     Barbara Howard    
1935     The Call of the Wild     Claire Blake    
1935     The Crusades     Berengaria, Princess of Navarre    
1935     Hollywood Extra Girl     Herself     Short subject

*1936     The Unguarded Hour     Lady Helen Dudley Dearden

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*1936     Private Number     Ellen Neal    

1936     Ramona     Ramona    
1936     Ladies in Love     Susie Schmidt
1937     Love Is News     Toni Gateson

1937     Café Metropole     Laura Ridgeway    
1937     Love Under Fire     Myra Cooper    
1937     Wife, Doctor and Nurse     Ina Heath Lewis    
1937     Second Honeymoon     Vicky
1938     Four Men and a Prayer     Miss Lynn Cherrington

*1938     Three Blind Mice     Pamela Charters    

1938     Suez     Countess Eugenie de Montijo    
1938     Kentucky     Sally Goodwin
   
1939     Wife, Husband and Friend     Doris Borland    
1939     The Story of Alexander Graham Bell     Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

*Young and David Niven in the film Eternally Yours (1939)

1939     Eternally Yours     Anita    

1940     The Doctor Takes a Wife     June Cameron    
1940     He Stayed for Breakfast     Marianna Duval
   
1941     The Lady from Cheyenne     Annie Morgan    
1941     The Men in Her Life     Lina Varsavina    
1941     Bedtime Story     Jane Drake
   
1942     A Night to Remember     Nancy Troy
   
1943     China     Carolyn Grant
1943     Show Business at War     Herself     Short subject

1944     Ladies Courageous     Roberta Harper     Famously "a clef" biopic of the WWII WASPs, pioneering women pilots

1944     And Now Tomorrow     Emily Blair
   
1945     Along Came Jones     Cherry de Longpre    

1946     The Stranger     Mary Longstreet
   
1947     The Perfect Marriage     Maggie Williams

 *1947     The Farmer's Daughter     Katrin "Katy" Holstrum     Academy Award for Best Actress 

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 *1947     The Bishop's Wife     Julia Brougham 

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    1948     Rachel and the Stranger     Rachel Harvey

*1949     The Accused     Dr. Wilma Tuttle    

1949     Mother Is a Freshman     Abigail Fortitude Abbott

*1949     Come to the Stable     Sister Margaret     Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress

1950     Key to the City     Clarissa Standish    

1951     You Can Change the World     Herself     Short subject
1951     Cause for Alarm!     Ellen Jones    
1951     Half Angel     Nora Gilpin    
1951     Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards     Herself     Short subject

1952     Paula     Paula Rogers    
1952     Because of You     Christine Carroll Kimberly
   
1953     It Happens Every Thursday     Jane MacAvoy

 *1986     Christmas Eve     Amanda Kingsley     TV movie

 1989     Lady in a Corner     Grace Guthrie     TV movie

1994     Life Along the Mississippi     Narrator (voice)     TV documentation
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11. Radio appearances :

Year     Program     Episode/source

1940     The Campbell Playhouse     "Theodora Goes Wild"
1945     Cavalcade of America     "Children, This Is Your Father"
1947     Family Theater     "Flight from Home"
1950     Suspense     "Lady Killer"
1952     Lux Radio Theatre     "Come to the Stable"
1952     Family Theater     "Heritage of Home"
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