Loretta Young
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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 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 Award
s, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Catholic
, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
, as Gretchen Young. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she was three years old.
She and her sisters Polly Ann
and Elizabeth Jane (screen name Sally Blane
) worked as child actresses, but of the three, Loretta was the most successful. Young's first role was at the age of three, in the silent film The Primrose Ring
. The movie's star Mae Murray
so fell in love with Young that she wanted to adopt her. Although her mother declined, Young was allowed to live with Murray for two years. During her high school years, Young was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School
. She was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband of Colleen Moore
, who saw the young girl as having potential. The name "Loretta" was given to her by Colleen, who would later explain that it was the name of her favorite doll.
in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh
. The next year she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars
.
In 1930, Young, then 17, eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers
and married him in Yuma, Arizona
. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (appropriately titled Too Young to Marry) was released.
During the Second World War, Young made Ladies Courageous (1944; reissued as Fury in the Sky), the fictionalized story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
. It depicted a unit of female pilots during WWII 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. The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant
and David Niven
in The Bishop's Wife
, a perennial favorite.
In 1949, Young 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 costar was John Forsythe
.
on television because she legally stipulated that they not be; she did not want the dresses she wore in those segments to "date" the program.) Her program ran in prime time
on NBC
for eight years, the longest-running prime-time network program hosted by a woman up to that time.
The program, which earned her three Emmys, was based on the premise that each drama was in answer to a question asked in her fan mail
. The program's original title was Letter to Loretta. The title was changed to The Loretta Young Show during the first season (as of the February 14, 1954 episode), and the "letter" concept was dropped at the end of the second season. At this time, Young's hospitalization, due to overwork towards the end of the second season, required that there be a number of guest hosts and guest stars; her first appearance in the 1955–56 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 rerun 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 1990s, selected episodes from Loretta's personal collection, with the opening and closing segments (and original title) intact, were released on home video, and frequently shown on cable television.
In the 1962–1963 television season, Young appeared as Christine Massey, a free-lance magazine writer and mother of seven children, in CBS's The New Loretta Young Show
. It fared poorly in the ratings on Monday evenings against ABC
's Ben Casey
. It was dropped after twenty-six weeks. Dack Rambo
, later a co-star of CBS's Dallas
, appeared as one of her twin sons in the series.
from 1930 to 1931. After that she was involved in affairs with Spencer Tracy
and Clark Gable
and in 1935 had Gable's child, a daughter. She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940 and they divorced very bitterly in the mid 1960s. Lewis died in 1988. They had two sons, Peter Lewis
(of the legendary San Francisco rock band Moby Grape
), and Christopher Lewis
, a film director.
She married fashion designer Jean Louis
in 1993. Louis died in 1997.
while on location for The Call of the Wild
. During their affair, Young became pregnant. Due to the moral
codes placed on the film industry, Young covered up her pregnancy in order to avoid damaging her career (as well as Gable's). When she began to show she went on a "vacation" to England. Several months later she returned to California. Shortly before the birth she gave an interview from her bed covered in blankets, stating the reason for her long movie absence was because of a condition she had had since childhood.
Loretta Young gave birth to Judith Young Judy Lewis
on November 6, 1935, in a house she and her mother owned in Venice, California. Three weeks later, she returned to movie-making. After several months of living in the house in Venice, Judy was transferred to St. Elizabeth's, an orphanage outside Los Angeles. When she was 19 months old, her grandmother picked her up and Young announced to gossip columnist Louella Parsons
that she had adopted the infant. The child was raised as "Judy Lewis
", taking the last name of Young's second husband, producer Tom Lewis.
According to Lewis' autobiography Uncommon Knowledge, she was made fun of because of the ears that she received from her father, Clark Gable. She states that, at seven, she had an operation to "pin back" her large ears and that her mother always had her wearing bonnets as a child. Over the years, she had heard rumors that Clark Gable was her biological father as she looked strikingly like him. In 1958, Lewis' future husband Joseph Tinney told her "everybody" knew that Gable was her biological father. The only time she remembered Gable visiting Lewis was once at her home when she was a teenager; she had no idea he was her biological father. Several years later, he turned up at The Loretta Young Show after Young had been in hospital for several months. Lewis was an assistant and was right behind her mother when she noticed Gable. They never had a relationship and she never saw him again.
Several years later, after becoming a mother herself, Lewis finally confronted her mother. After promptly vomiting, Young admitted her true parentage, stating that she was "just a walking mortal sin."
, then 29, was charged with child molestation and filming and distributing child pornography, along with 13 other men whom the police labeled a "chicken flick ring." Lewis and the other men were indicted with soliciting boys ranging from ages 6 to 17 to perform lewd acts in their movies. Despite pleading "no contest" to child molestation and possibly facing up to life in prison, Lewis managed to be let off with probation and a $500 fine.
. In 1952 she appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower
and was in attendance at his inauguration along with such notables as Anita Louise
, Louella Parsons
, Jane Russell
, Dick Powell
, June Allyson
, and Lou Costello
. In both 1968 and 1981 she was a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon
and Hollywood friend Ronald Reagan
. She was also an active member of the Hollywood Republican Committee with close friend Irene Dunne
as well as Ginger Rogers
, William Holden
, George Murphy
, Fred Astaire
, and John Wayne
.
, Irene Dunne
, and Rosalind Russell
. Young did, however, briefly come out of retirement to star in two television films, Christmas Eve (1986), and Lady in the Corner (1989). Young won a Golden Globe Award for the former, and was nominated again for the latter.
In 1972, a jury in Los Angeles awarded Young $550,000 in her breach of contract suit against NBC. Filed in 1966, the suit contended that NBC had allowed foreign television outlets to rerun old episodes of The Loretta Young Show without excluding, as agreed by the parties, the opening segment where Young would make her entrance. Young testified that her image had been damaged by portraying her in "outdated gowns," and a jury agreed to less than the $1.9 million sought.
at the Santa Monica, California
, home of her half-sister, Georgiana Montalbán, and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery
in Culver City, California
. Her ashes were buried in the grave of her mother, Gladys Belzer.
Her daughter, Judy Lewis, died of cancer on November 25, 2011.
Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
; one for motion pictures, at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard
, and another for television, at 6141 Hollywood Boulevard.
Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...
, 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 Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
s, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
Early life
She was born in Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
, as Gretchen Young. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she was three years old.
She and her sisters Polly Ann
Polly Ann Young
Polly Ann Young was an American film actress.Actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane were her sisters, and, of the three, Polly Ann was the least successful. Between 1917 and 1941 she featured in 34 movies, some of them minor uncredited roles. Among her most notable movie roles, was as John...
and Elizabeth Jane (screen name Sally Blane
Sally Blane
Sally Blane was an American actress. Blane was the sister of actresses Polly Ann and Loretta Young, and half-sister to actress Georgiana Young, the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban...
) worked as child actresses, but of the three, Loretta was the most successful. Young's first role was at the age of three, in the silent film The Primrose Ring
The Primrose Ring
The Primrose Ring is a novel by Ruth Sawyer, published first in 1915 and illustrated by Fanny Munsell. This was Sawyer's first published novel. She later wrote the 1937 Newbery Medal winner Roller Skates....
. The movie's star Mae Murray
Mae Murray
Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....
so fell in love with Young that she wanted to adopt her. Although her mother declined, Young was allowed to live with Murray for two years. During her high school years, Young was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School
Ramona Convent Secondary School
Ramona Convent Secondary School is a private, Catholic, college preparatory school for girls grades 7-12. Established in 1889 by the Sisters of the Holy Names, Ramona is one of the oldest continually operating schools in the same location in California and has graduated over 8,300 students...
. She was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband of Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...
, who saw the young girl as having potential. The name "Loretta" was given to her by Colleen, who would later explain that it was the name of her favorite doll.
Film
Young was billed as "Gretchen Young" in the 1917 film, Sirens of the Sea. It was not until 1928 that she was first billed as "Loretta Young" in The Whip Woman. That same year she co-starred with Lon ChaneyLon Chaney, Sr.
Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios.-Cast:*Lon Chaney - Tito/Flick*Loretta Young - Simonetta...
. The next year she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars
WAMPAS Baby Stars
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States which honored thirteen young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934, and annual...
.
In 1930, Young, then 17, eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor. With early beginnings in the silent era, Withers moved into talkies establishing himself with a list of headlined features as a young and handsome male lead...
and married him in Yuma, Arizona
Yuma, Arizona
Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of the state, and the population of the city was 77,515 at the 2000 census, with a 2008 Census Bureau estimated population of 90,041....
. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (appropriately titled Too Young to Marry) was released.
Women Airforce Service Pilots
The Women Airforce Service Pilots and its predecessor groups the Women's Flying Training Detachment and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron were pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces...
. It depicted a unit of female pilots during WWII who flew bomber planes from the factories to their final destinations.
Young made as many as eight movies a year. In 1947
1947 in film
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.*November 24 : The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten".*November 25...
, she won an Oscar for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter. The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant
Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
and David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
in The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. It was released by RKO. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E...
, a perennial favorite.
In 1949, Young received another Academy Award nomination for Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...
. In 1953, she appeared in her last theatrical film, It Happens Every Thursday, a Universal
Universal Pictures
-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
comedy about a New York couple who move to California to take over a struggling weekly newspaper. Her costar was John Forsythe
John Forsythe
John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's...
.
Television
Young hosted and starred in the well-received half hour anthology series The Loretta Young Show. It ran from 1953 to 1961. Her trademark was to come through a door dramatically at the beginning 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 conclusions to her television shows were not rerunRerun
A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz. There are two types of reruns—those that occur during a hiatus, and those that occur when a program is syndicated. Reruns can also be, as the...
on television because she legally stipulated that they not be; she did not want the dresses she wore in those segments to "date" the program.) Her program ran in prime time
Prime time
Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00 Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast...
on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
for eight years, the longest-running prime-time network program hosted by a woman up to that time.
The program, which earned her three Emmys, was based on the premise that each drama was in answer to a question asked in her fan mail
Fan mail
Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or "fans".In return celebrities may send a poster or picture and usually a return letter.-Overview:...
. The program's original title was Letter to Loretta. The title was changed to The Loretta Young Show during the first season (as of the February 14, 1954 episode), and the "letter" concept was dropped at the end of the second season. At this time, Young's hospitalization, due to overwork towards the end of the second season, required that there be a number of guest hosts and guest stars; her first appearance in the 1955–56 season was for the Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
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 rerun as the Loretta Young Theatre in daytime by NBC from 1960 to 1964. It also appeared in syndication
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
into the early 1970s, before being withdrawn. In the 1990s, selected episodes from Loretta's personal collection, with the opening and closing segments (and original title) intact, were released on home video, and frequently shown on cable television.
In the 1962–1963 television season, Young appeared as Christine Massey, a free-lance magazine writer and mother of seven children, in CBS's The New Loretta Young Show
The New Loretta Young Show
The New Loretta Young Show, which aired for twenty-six weekly episodes on CBS television from September 24, 1962 to March 18, 1963, featured Loretta Young in a combination drama and situation comedy about a free-lance writer in suburban Connecticut named Christine Massey, the widowed mother of...
. It fared poorly in the ratings on Monday evenings against ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's Ben Casey
Ben Casey
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph...
. It was dropped after twenty-six weeks. Dack Rambo
Dack Rambo
Norman Jay Rambeau , professionally known as Dack Rambo, was an American actor, most notable for appearing as Walter Brennan's grandson Jeff in the ABC series The Guns of Will Sonnett, as Steve Jacobi in All My Children, as cousin Jack Ewing on CBS's Dallas, and as Grant Harrison on the NBC soap...
, later a co-star of CBS's Dallas
Dallas (TV series)
Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
, appeared as one of her twin sons in the series.
Awards
In 1988, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.Personal life
Young was married to actor Grant WithersGrant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor. With early beginnings in the silent era, Withers moved into talkies establishing himself with a list of headlined features as a young and handsome male lead...
from 1930 to 1931. After that she was involved in affairs with Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...
and Clark Gable
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
and in 1935 had Gable's child, a daughter. She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940 and they divorced very bitterly in the mid 1960s. Lewis died in 1988. They had two sons, Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis (musician)
Peter Lewis is one of the founding members of the band Moby Grape. Three of his better known songs with Moby Grape are "Fall On You" and "Sitting By The Window" from the self-titled first Moby Grape album and "If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes", from Moby Grape '69.- Background :He is the...
(of the legendary San Francisco rock band Moby Grape
Moby Grape
Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music...
), and Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis is a writer and film producer, primarily for television.-Family:Christopher Lewis is one of two sons of Hollywood actress Loretta Young...
, a film director.
She married fashion designer Jean Louis
Jean Louis
Jean Louis was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Costume Design. Louis worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960...
in 1993. Louis died in 1997.
Clark Gable affair
In 1935, Young had an affair with a then-married Clark GableClark Gable
William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
while on location for The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild (1935 film)
The Call of the Wild is a 1935 American adventure film adaptation of Jack London's novel of the same name. A prospector heading for the Alaska gold rush rescues a sled dog from its cruel master. Stars Clark Gable and Loretta Young had an affair during the film's production, resulting in Young's...
. During their affair, Young became pregnant. Due to the moral
Moral
A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim...
codes placed on the film industry, Young covered up her pregnancy in order to avoid damaging her career (as well as Gable's). When she began to show she went on a "vacation" to England. Several months later she returned to California. Shortly before the birth she gave an interview from her bed covered in blankets, stating the reason for her long movie absence was because of a condition she had had since childhood.
Loretta Young gave birth to Judith Young Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist, and the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young.-History:...
on November 6, 1935, in a house she and her mother owned in Venice, California. Three weeks later, she returned to movie-making. After several months of living in the house in Venice, Judy was transferred to St. Elizabeth's, an orphanage outside Los Angeles. When she was 19 months old, her grandmother picked her up and Young announced to gossip columnist Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons was the first American news-writer movie columnist in the United States. She was a gossip columnist who, for many years, was an influential arbiter of Hollywood mores, often feared and hated by the individuals, mostly actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her...
that she had adopted the infant. The child was raised as "Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist, and the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young.-History:...
", taking the last name of Young's second husband, producer Tom Lewis.
According to Lewis' autobiography Uncommon Knowledge, she was made fun of because of the ears that she received from her father, Clark Gable. She states that, at seven, she had an operation to "pin back" her large ears and that her mother always had her wearing bonnets as a child. Over the years, she had heard rumors that Clark Gable was her biological father as she looked strikingly like him. In 1958, Lewis' future husband Joseph Tinney told her "everybody" knew that Gable was her biological father. The only time she remembered Gable visiting Lewis was once at her home when she was a teenager; she had no idea he was her biological father. Several years later, he turned up at The Loretta Young Show after Young had been in hospital for several months. Lewis was an assistant and was right behind her mother when she noticed Gable. They never had a relationship and she never saw him again.
Several years later, after becoming a mother herself, Lewis finally confronted her mother. After promptly vomiting, Young admitted her true parentage, stating that she was "just a walking mortal sin."
Scandal
A scandal erupted in 1973, when Young's son Christopher LewisChristopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis is a writer and film producer, primarily for television.-Family:Christopher Lewis is one of two sons of Hollywood actress Loretta Young...
, then 29, was charged with child molestation and filming and distributing child pornography, along with 13 other men whom the police labeled a "chicken flick ring." Lewis and the other men were indicted with soliciting boys ranging from ages 6 to 17 to perform lewd acts in their movies. Despite pleading "no contest" to child molestation and possibly facing up to life in prison, Lewis managed to be let off with probation and a $500 fine.
Politics
Young was a lifelong staunch supporter of the Republican PartyRepublican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
. In 1952 she appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
and was in attendance at his inauguration along with such notables as Anita Louise
Anita Louise
-Life and career:Born Anita Louise Fremault in New York, New York, she made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films...
, Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons was the first American news-writer movie columnist in the United States. She was a gossip columnist who, for many years, was an influential arbiter of Hollywood mores, often feared and hated by the individuals, mostly actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her...
, Jane Russell
Jane Russell
Jane Russell was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s....
, Dick Powell
Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:...
, June Allyson
June Allyson
June Allyson was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss . From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology...
, and Lou Costello
Lou Costello
Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...
. In both 1968 and 1981 she was a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
and Hollywood friend Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
. She was also an active member of the Hollywood Republican Committee with close friend Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...
as well as Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
, William Holden
William Holden
William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
, George Murphy
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician.-Life and career:He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and Nora Long. He was educated at Peddie School, Trinity-Pawling School, and...
, Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
, and John Wayne
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
.
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 WymanJane Wyman
Jane Wyman was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades...
, Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...
, and Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...
. Young did, however, briefly come out of retirement to star in two television films, Christmas Eve (1986), and Lady in the Corner (1989). Young won a Golden Globe Award for the former, and was nominated again for the latter.
In 1972, a jury in Los Angeles awarded Young $550,000 in her breach of contract suit against NBC. Filed in 1966, the suit contended that NBC had allowed foreign television outlets to rerun old episodes of The Loretta Young Show without excluding, as agreed by the parties, the opening segment where Young would make her entrance. Young testified that her image had been damaged by portraying her in "outdated gowns," and a jury agreed to less than the $1.9 million sought.
Death
Young died on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancerOvarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
at the Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
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, home of her half-sister, Georgiana Montalbán, and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
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in Culver City, California
Culver City, California
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. Her ashes were buried in the grave of her mother, Gladys Belzer.
Her daughter, Judy Lewis, died of cancer on November 25, 2011.
Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
; one for motion pictures, at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard
-Revitalization:In recent years successful efforts have been made at cleaning up Hollywood Blvd., as the street had gained a reputation for crime and seediness. Central to these efforts was the construction of the Hollywood and Highland shopping center and adjacent Kodak Theatre in 2001...
, and another for television, at 6141 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | The Primrose Ring The Primrose Ring The Primrose Ring is a novel by Ruth Sawyer, published first in 1915 and illustrated by Fanny Munsell. This was Sawyer's first published novel. She later wrote the 1937 Newbery Medal winner Roller Skates.... |
Fairy | uncredited |
| 1917 | Sirens of the Sea | Child | as Gretchen Young |
| 1919 | The Only Way | Child on the operating table | |
| 1921 | White and Unmarried | Child | uncredited |
| 1921 | The Sheik The Sheik (film) The Sheik is a 1921 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, and Adolphe Menjou... |
Arab child | uncredited |
| 1927 | Naughty But Nice | Bit Part | uncredited |
| 1927 | Her Wild Oat Her Wild Oat Her Wild Oat is a silent comedy film made by First National Pictures, directed by Marshall Neilan, and starring Colleen Moore. The screenplay was written by Gerald C... |
Bit by Ping Pong Table | uncredited |
| 1928 | The Whip Woman | The Girl | |
| 1928 | Laugh, Clown, Laugh Laugh, Clown, Laugh Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios.-Cast:*Lon Chaney - Tito/Flick*Loretta Young - Simonetta... |
Simonetta | |
| 1928 | The Magnificent Flirt | Denise Laverne | |
| 1928 | The Head Man | Carol Watts | |
| 1928 | Scarlet Seas | Margaret Barbour | |
| 1929 | Seven Footprints to Satan Seven Footprints to Satan (film) Seven Footprints to Satan is a 1929 American dark comedy film directed by Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen. Based on the book of the same name by Abraham Merritt, it stars Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, William V. Mong and Sheldon Lewis, and contains appearances by Sojin and Angelo Rossitto... |
One of Satan's victims | uncredited |
| 1929 | The Squall | Irma | |
| 1929 | The Girl in the Glass Cage | Gladys Cosgrove | |
| 1929 | Fast Life | Patricia Mason Stratton | |
| 1929 | The Careless Age | Muriel | |
| 1929 | The Forward Pass The Forward Pass The Forward Pass, also known as To match tis doxis in Greece, is a 1929 black-and-white American football musical film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young. John Wayne was an uncredited extra in the film. The film is believed to be lost.-Cast:* Douglas... |
Patricia Carlyle | |
| 1929 | The Show of Shows | "Meet My Sister" number | |
| 1930 | Loose Ankles Loose Ankles Loose Ankles is a Pre-Code romantic comedy released in all-talking versions and silent versions.Warner Brothers produced and distributed the film under First National. The film was directed by Ted Wilde and starred Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Edward Nugent. This film has been shown... |
Ann Harper Berry | |
| 1930 | The Man from Blankley's The Man from Blankley's The Man from Blankley's was a 1930 history epic and comedy film by Alfred E. Green starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young. The film was based upon the 1903 play by F. Anstey, and was considered to be a major comedy masterpiece of the early sound era. The film was Barrymore's first feature... |
Margery Seaton | |
| 1930 | Show Girl in Hollywood Show Girl in Hollywood __notoc__Show Girl In Hollywood is a musical comedy/drama film with Technicolor sequences, starring Alice White. It was adapted from the novel Hollywood Girl by J. P. McEvoy.The film only survives in black and white... |
uncredited | |
| 1930 | The Second Floor Mystery | Marion Ferguson | |
| 1930 | Road to Paradise | Mary Brennan/Margaret Waring | |
| 1930 | Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner | Herself | short subject |
| 1930 | Kismet Kismet (1930 film) Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros.... |
Marsinah | |
| 1930 | War Nurse | Nurse | uncredited |
| 1930 | The Truth About Youth The Truth About Youth The Truth About Youth is a 1930 early talking drama from Warner Brothers First National Pictures starring Loretta Young, Conway Tearle and an early role for Myrna Loy. This movie still survives today. It broadcasts on TCM.... |
Phyllis Ericson | |
| 1930 | The Devil to Pay! | Dorothy Hope | |
| 1931 | How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie | Herself | short subject |
| 1931 | Beau Ideal | Isobel Brandon | |
| 1931 | The Right of Way | Rosalie Evantural | |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools The Stolen Jools The Stolen Jools is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day... |
Herself | short subject |
| 1931 | Three Girls Lost Three Girls Lost Three Girls Lost is a Western film directed by Sidney Lanfield based on a story by Robert Hardy Andrews. The film stars Loretta Young, Joan Marsh, Lew Cody, and John Wayne.-Plot:... |
Norene McMann | |
| 1931 | Too Young to Marry | Elaine Bumpstead | |
| 1931 | Big Business Girl | Claie 'Mac' McIntyre | |
| 1931 | I Like Your Nerve I Like Your Nerve I Like Your Nerve is a 1931 comedy film directed by William C. McGann, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Larry O'Brien* Loretta Young - Diane Forsythe* Henry Kolker - Areal Pacheco... |
Diane Forsythe | |
| 1931 | The Ruling Voice | Gloria Bannister | |
| 1931 | Platinum Blonde Platinum Blonde (film) Plantinum Blonde is a 1931 romantic comedy motion picture starring Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, and Loretta Young . The film was written by Jo Swerling and directed by Frank Capra.... |
Gallagher | |
| 1932 | Taxi! Taxi! Taxi! is a 1932 film starring James Cagney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Roy Del Ruth.-Plot:When a veteran cab driver, Pop Riley , refuses to be pressured into surrendering his prime soliciting location outside a cafe, wherein his daughter works, the old man's cab is intentionally... |
Sue Riley Nolan | |
| 1932 | The Hatchet Man The Hatchet Man The Hatchet Man is a Pre-Code film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Edward G. Robinson. Warner Bros. had purchased the David Belasco/Achmed Abdullah play The Honorable Mr. Wong about the Tong gang wars... |
Sun Toya San | |
| 1932 | Play-Girl Play-Girl Play-Girl is a 1932 romantic drama film starring Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, and Norman Foster. A young woman marries a professional gambler.-Cast:*Winnie Lightner as Georgine Hicks*Loretta Young as Buster Green Dennis... |
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis | |
| 1932 | Week-end Marriage | Lola Davis Hayes | |
| 1932 | Life Begins Life Begins (film) Life Begins is a drama film set in a 1930s maternity ward and deals with unwed mothers. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Mary M. Axelson.-Cast:*Loretta Young as Grace Sutton*Eric Linden as Jed Sutton... |
Grace Sutton | |
| 1932 | They Call It Sin | Marion Cullen | |
| 1933 | Employees' Entrance Employees' Entrance Employees' Entrance is a 1933 Pre-Code film about the manager of a New York department store and an employee .-Plot:Kurt Anderson is the utterly ruthless, hard-driving general manager of the Monroe department store... |
Madeleine Walters West | |
| 1933 | Grand Slam | Marcia Stanislavsky | |
| 1933 | Zoo in Budapest Zoo in Budapest Zoo in Budapest is a film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, and Paul Fix.- Plot :Flamboyant Zani is a kindly young man who grew up entirely and works in the zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals, and indeed Zani has been... |
Eve | |
| 1933 | The Life of Jimmy Dolan The Life of Jimmy Dolan The Life of Jimmy Dolan is a 1933 starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young. It features John Wayne in a small supporting role as a frightened boxer. It was remade in 1939 as They Made Me a Criminal.-Cast:* Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Jimmy Dolan* Loretta Young as Peggy* Aline MacMahon as... |
Peggy | |
| 1933 | Heroes for Sale Heroes for Sale Heroes for Sale is a Depression-era film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. A veteran of World War I, Thomas Holmes, struggles to make his way in civilian life in almost every way imaginable... |
Ruth Loring Holmes | |
| 1933 | Midnight Mary Midnight Mary Midnight Mary is a 1933 film that reveals in flashbacks the hard life of a woman on trial for murder. It stars Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, and Franchot Tone.-Cast:*Loretta Young as Mary Martin AKA "Midnight Mary"*Ricardo Cortez as Leo Darcy... |
Mary Martin | |
| 1933 | She Had to Say Yes She Had to Say Yes She Had to Say Yes is a 1933 pre-Code film directed by George Amy and Busby Berkley. It was Berkley's directorial debut. Loretta Young stars as a secretary who receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients... |
Florence 'Flo' Denny | |
| 1933 | The Devil's in Love | Margot Lesesne | |
| 1933 | Man's Castle Man's Castle Man's Castle is 1933 film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young.-Plot:Well-dressed Bill takes pity on Trina , a starving young woman he meets in a city park and treats her to a dinner in a fancy restaurant. After she is finished, he informs the manager he has no... |
Trina | |
| 1934 | The House of Rothschild The House of Rothschild (1934 film) The House of Rothschild is an American film written by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and directed by Alfred L... |
Julie Rothschild | |
| 1934 | Born to Be Bad Born to Be Bad (1934 film) Born to Be Bad is a 1934 Drama directed by Lowell Sherman, starring Loretta Young and Cary Grant. This film was rejected by the Hays Office twice before it was finally approved... |
Letty Strong | |
| 1934 | Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young.-Plot:... |
Lola Field | |
| 1934 | Caravan Caravan (1934 film) Caravan is a film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Erik Charell. The film stars Charles Boyer, Loretta Young and Jean Parker. Fox also produced a French language version of this film, Caravane starring Boyer, Annabella, and Conchita Montenegro.-Cast:*Charles Boyer as Latzi*Loretta... |
Countess Wilma | |
| 1934 | The White Parade The White Parade The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings.... |
June Arden | |
| 1935 | Clive of India Clive of India (film) Clive of India is a 1935 drama film based on Robert, Lord Clive's historical biography. It was written by R.J. Minney and W.P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski.-Cast:* Ronald Colman as Baron Robert Clive* shahrukh khan as devdas... |
Margaret Maskelyne Clive | |
| 1935 | Shanghai | Barbara Howard | |
| 1935 | The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild (1935 film) The Call of the Wild is a 1935 American adventure film adaptation of Jack London's novel of the same name. A prospector heading for the Alaska gold rush rescues a sled dog from its cruel master. Stars Clark Gable and Loretta Young had an affair during the film's production, resulting in Young's... |
Claire Blake | |
| 1935 | The Crusades The Crusades (film) - Plot :Mostly taking elements from the Third Crusade, King Richard is enlisted in a crusade to bring Jerusalem back into Christian hands in order to get out of a betrothal with Alice, the Princess of France. En route, Richard meets Berengaria the Princess of Navarre and marries her in exchange... |
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre | |
| 1935 | Hollywood Extra Girl | Herself | short subject |
| 1936 | The Unguarded Hour The Unguarded Hour The Unguarded Hour is a 1936 film starring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone under the direction of Sam Wood. The prosecutor in a murder trial is unaware that his wife is involved.-Cast:*Loretta Young as Lady Helen Dudley Dearden... |
Lady Helen Dudley Dearden | |
| 1936 | Private Number | Ellen Neal | |
| 1936 | Ramona Ramona (1936 film) Ramona is a 1936 Technicolor drama film directed by Henry King, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound... |
Ramona | |
| 1936 | Ladies in Love Ladies in Love Ladies in Love is a romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith. Starring Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young the film revolves around three roommates in exotic Budapest and their comical romantic adventures. Gaynor, Bennett, and Young were billed above the title, with... |
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 Second Honeymoon (film) Second Honeymoon is a 1937 romantic comedy film starring Tyrone Power and Loretta Young.... |
Vicky | |
| 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer Four Men and a Prayer -Cast:* Loretta Young - Miss Lynn Cherrington* Richard Greene - Geoffrey Leigh* George Sanders - Wyatt Leigh* David Niven - Christopher Leigh* C. Aubrey Smith - Col. Loring Leigh* J. Edward Bromberg - Gen. Torres* William Henry - Rodney Leigh... |
Miss Lynn Cherrington | |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice Three Blind Mice (film) Three Blind Mice is a 2008 feature film written, directed by and starring Matthew Newton. It is the second film directed by Matthew Newton and premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2008. To date it has screened at over fourteen international and Australian festivals... |
Pamela Charters | |
| 1938 | Suez Suez (film) Suez is a 1938 film account of the building of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, played by Tyrone Power. It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued for libel.... |
Countess Eugenie de Montijo | |
| 1938 | Kentucky Kentucky (film) Kentucky is a 1938 Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle... |
Sally Goodwin | |
| 1939 | Wife, Husband and Friend | Doris Borland | |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell The Story of Alexander Graham Bell The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 screen biography of the famous inventor of the telephone. It was filmed in black-and-white and released by Twentieth Century-Fox. The film stars Don Ameche as Bell and Loretta Young as Mabel, his wife, who contracted scarlet fever... |
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell | |
| 1939 | Eternally Yours Eternally Yours (film) Eternally Yours is a 1939 American comedy film made by Walter Wanger and released by United Artists. The film was produced and directed by Tay Garnett with Walter Wanger as executive producer, from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne.... |
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 | |
| 1943 | A Night to Remember A Night to Remember (1943 film) A Night to Remember is a mystery comedy film starring Loretta Young and Brian Aherne. It was directed by Richard Wallace, and is based on the novel The Frightened Stiff by Kelley Roos... |
Nancy Troy | |
| 1943 | China | Carolyn Grant | |
| 1943 | Show Business at War Show Business at War Show Business at War is a short film made in 1943 to tout the United States film industry's contribution to the war effort. Several studios collaborated on the production and approximately 70 stars, producers, directors and studio executives appeared in it.... |
Herself | short subject |
| 1944 | Ladies Courageous | Roberta Harper | |
| 1944 | And Now Tomorrow And Now Tomorrow And Now Tomorrow is a 1944 film based on the bestselling novel, published in 1942 by Rachel Field, directed by Irving Pichel and written by Raymond Chandler. Both center around one doctor's attempt for curing deafness. The film stars Alan Ladd and Susan Hayward. Its tagline was Who are you that a... |
Emily Blair | |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones Along Came Jones (film) Along Came Jones is a 1945 western comedy film starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea, in which Cooper mercilessly spoofs his own slow-talking cowboy persona. The movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May, and directed by... |
Cherry de Longpre | |
| 1946 | The Stranger The Stranger (1946 film) The Stranger is an American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper... |
Mary Longstreet | |
| 1947 | The Perfect Marriage | Maggie Williams | |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Katrin 'Katy' Holstrum | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Actress Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry... |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife The Bishop's Wife The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. It was released by RKO. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E... |
Julia Brougham | |
| 1948 | Rachel and the Stranger Rachel and the Stranger Rachel and the Stranger was a black-and-white 1948 western film starring Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. The Norman Foster-helmed film was one of the few to address the role of women in the pioneer west, as well as portray early America's indentured servant trade... |
Rachel Harvey | |
| 1949 | The Accused The Accused (1949 film) The Accused is an American film noir directed by William Dieterle and written by Ketti Frings, based on Be Still, My Love, a novel written by June Truesdell... |
Dr. Wilma Tuttle | |
| 1949 | Mother Is a Freshman Mother Is a Freshman Mother Is a Freshman is a 1949 comedy motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design.-Principal cast:*Loretta Young - Mrs... |
Abigail Fortitude Abbott | |
| 1949 | Come to the Stable Come to the Stable Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital... |
Sister Margaret | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Actress Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry... |
| 1950 | Key to the City Key to the City (film) Key to the City is a 1950 romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young as mayors who meet during a convention in San Francisco and, despite their contrasting personalities and views, fall in love. This was the second time that Gable and Young appeared together in a film, the first... |
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 Because of You (film) Because of You is a 1952 film starring Loretta Young, surprising in that it showed a provocative "sexy side" of Ms. Young, quite different than her usual dignified brunette "nice girl" part.- Plot summary :... |
Christine Carroll Kimberly | |
| 1953 | It Happens Every Thursday | Jane MacAvoy |
Further reading
- Lewis, JudyJudy LewisJudy Lewis was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist, and the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young.-History:...
. Uncommon Knowledge (book by Young's daughter with Clark GableClark GableWilliam Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
). (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster 1994), ISBN 0-671-70019-7