Loretta Young

Acting

January 6, 1913

Died August 12, 2000 (87 years old)

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

255

Acting Credits

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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 seri...

Known For

Filmography

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

2008

as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

6.1

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

2000

as Self (voice)

6.8

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

1995

as Self

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

as Self (archive footage)

Lady in a Corner

1989

as Grace Guthrie

4.5

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

as Self

Christmas Eve

1986

as Amanda Kingsley

6.9

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

20/20

1978

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

The Movie Orgy

1968

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

The New Loretta Young Show

1962

as Christine Massey

7.5

The Spark

1961

as Lucy Masters

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961

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

4.4

It Happens Every Thursday

1953

as Jane MacAvoy

6.3

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Carol Brown

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Barbara Devon

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Self - Host

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ruth Baxter

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kim Collet

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Margaret Channing

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Audrey Curtis

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Janice Hite

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Helen Seaton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Catherine Harding

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Laura Macklin

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Mabel MacAfee

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Judy Evans

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ellie Winters

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Queen Nefertiti

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Victor Conrad

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Muriel Vail

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Countess

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sister Ann

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Gretchen Brock-Miller

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Martha

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Miss Ryan

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Gerda Freuling

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Edie Royal

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Penelope Ashley

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kiku Arikawa

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Thelma Brown

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Jean Kennedy

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Allison Bainworth

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Susan Parker

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Countess Barocci

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Pam Gates

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Karima

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Amy Stewart

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kay Mathews

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Judge Lila Brighton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Janet Forbes

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Alma

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Beth Hammond

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Peggy Simms / Miss Connally

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Taka

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Maria Gordella

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Connie Van

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Fay Davies

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Janet Barlow

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Margaret Hutchins

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Vera Wilson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Alice Ward

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Augusta Smith

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Susan Glover

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Madeliene Vanderhoff

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Polly Fry

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Norma Hutton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Audrey Dickerson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Katharine

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Eleanor Stark

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sally Hays

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Anita Dodd

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Donna Landon

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Irene Sherwood

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Felice Minton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Betty Rogers

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Dina

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Yuki Arakawa

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Katherine Ward

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Margaret Underwood

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Isobel DeHavilland

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Elizabeth Collier

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Lucy Anderson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sylvia

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Margo Randall

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Louise Roberts

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Linda Perkins

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Harriet Sands

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Nora Halliday

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Helen Talbot

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Madge Mason

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Nancy Hamilton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Marcy Thorne

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Jane Seaton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Betty Taylor

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Alva Knox

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Teddy Butler

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sally Webster

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Irene Dodds

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Norma Kelvin

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Inga Helborg

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Jenny

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kitty Coughlin

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Paula

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Miss Springs

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Harriet Patton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Susan Stevens - Stepmother

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Mary Bertch

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Scottie

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Penny Blodgett

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Grace Hart

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Suzie James

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Amanda Seaton

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Audrey - a teacher

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Alison Ives

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Cora Skinner

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kathy Ames

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Susan Franklin

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Dr. Juliet

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Elizabeth Stacey

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Rita Cole

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Lynn Roth

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Alice Hendricks

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Janet Pressman

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Marcella Dawson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ellen Morgan

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ayesha the Maharani

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Prudence Bixby

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Kiyoshi

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Charlotte Bronte

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Amy

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Ethel Morris

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Lenore Kent

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Eve Wayne

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Self - Hostess

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Peg Lincoln

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Judy Cavanaugh

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as May Ranson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Emily Pierson

6.6

Letter to Loretta

1953

as Sarella

6.6

Paula

1952

as Paula Rogers

8.2

Because of You

1952

as Christine Carroll Kimberly

6.5

Cause for Alarm!

1951

as Ellen Jones

5.9

Half Angel

1951

as Nora Gilpin

6.2

Key to the City

1950

as Clarissa Standish

6.5

You Can Change The World

1950

as Self

6.4

The Costume Designer

1950

as Self (archive footage)

The Bob Hope Show

1950

as Self

The Accused

1949

as Dr. Wilma Tuttle

6.1

Mother Is a Freshman

1949

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

Come to the Stable

1949

as Sister Margaret

6.7

Rachel and the Stranger

1948

as Rachel

6.5

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

as Katrin Holstrom

7.1

The Perfect Marriage

1947

as Maggie Williams

5.5

The Bishop's Wife

1947

as Julia Brougham

7.1

The Stranger

1946

as Mary Longstreet

7.2

Along Came Jones

1945

as Cherry de Longpre

5.8

And Now Tomorrow

1944

as Emily Blair

Ladies Courageous

1944

as Roberta Harper

5.3

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Nominee

China

1943

as Carolyn Grant

6.9

Show-Business at War

1943

as Self

A Night to Remember

1942

as Nancy Troy

6.7

Bedtime Story

1941

as Jane Drake

5.8

The Lady from Cheyenne

1941

as Annie Morgan

5.7

The Men in Her Life

1941

as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley

6.7

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1941

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940

as June Cameron

6.8

He Stayed for Breakfast

1940

as Marianna Duval

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939

as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

6.3

Eternally Yours

1939

as Anita

5.9

Wife, Husband and Friend

1939

as Doris Borland

6.5

Four Men and a Prayer

1938

as Lynn Cherrington

6.5

Suez

1938

as Countess Eugenie de Montijo

5.5

Kentucky

1938

as Sally Goodwin

6.1

Three Blind Mice

1938

as Pamela Charters

6.1

Love Is News

1937

as Tony Gateson

6.3

Love Under Fire

1937

as Myra Cooper

5.3

Café Metropole

1937

as Laura Ridgeway

7.3

Second Honeymoon

1937

as Vicky

6.4

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937

as Ina Heath Lewis

Ramona

1936

as Ramona

5.8

Ladies in Love

1936

as Susie Schmidt

6.5

The Unguarded Hour

1936

as Lady Helen Dearden

6.4

Private Number

1936

as Ellen Neal

6.7

The Crusades

1935

as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre

6.4

Clive of India

1935

as Margaret Maskelyne

5.1

Shanghai

1935

as Barbara Howard

7.3

Call of the Wild

1935

as Claire Blake

6.3

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935

as Crusades Actor (uncredited)

7.5

Born to Be Bad

1934

as Letty Strong

5.8

The White Parade

1934

as June Arden

6.8

The House of Rothschild

1934

as Julie Rothschild

6.2

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1934

as Lola Field

5.6

Caravan

1934

as Countess Wilma

6.5

Employees' Entrance

1933

as Madeleine Walters West

6.1

She Had to Say Yes

1933

as Florence 'Flo' Denny

5.7

Heroes for Sale

1933

as Ruth Loring

7.1

Midnight Mary

1933

as Mary

6.8

Zoo in Budapest

1933

as Eve

4.8

Man's Castle

1933

as Trina

6.8

Grand Slam

1933

as Marcia Stanislavsky

4.6

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

1933

as Peggy

6.2

The Devil's in Love

1933

as Margot Lesesne

Taxi!

1932

as Sue Riley Nolan

6.8

They Call It Sin

1932

as Marion Cullen

Week-End Marriage

1932

as Lola Davis Hayes

5.5

The Hatchet Man

1932

as Sun Toya San

5.4

Life Begins

1932

as Grace Sutton

6.2

Play Girl

1932

as Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

Platinum Blonde

1931

as Gallagher

6.7

The Stolen Jools

1931

as Loretta Young

5.6

Big Business Girl

1931

as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

6.8

Beau Ideal

1931

as Isobel Brandon

4.5

I Like Your Nerve

1931

as Diane Forsythe

5.9

The Ruling Voice

1931

as Gloria Bannister

6.2

Three Girls Lost

1931

as Norene McMann

Too Young to Marry

1931

as Elaine Bumpstead

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'

1931

The Devil to Pay!

1930

as Dorothy Hope

5.9

Loose Ankles

1930

as Ann

4.3

The Second Floor Mystery

1930

as Marion Ferguson

Road to Paradise

1930

as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan

6.4

The Truth About Youth

1930

as Phyllis Ericson

6.2

The Right of Way

1930

as Rosalie Evantural

5.2

Kismet

1930

as Marsinah

Show Girl in Hollywood

1930

as Loretta Young

5.8

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930

as Self

4.5

War Nurse

1930

as Nurse (uncredited)

5.2

The Man from Blankley's

1930

as Margery Seaton

Seven Footprints to Satan

1929

as One of Satan's Victims

6.2

The Squall

1929

as Irma

The Forward Pass

1929

as Patricia Carlyle

The Show of Shows

1929

as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number

6.6

Fast Life

1929

as Patricia Mason Stratton

The Girl in the Glass Cage

1929

as Gladys Cosgrove

7.5

The Careless Age

1929

as Muriel

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928

as Simonetta

7.4

The Head Man

1928

as Carol Watts

Scarlet Seas

1928

as Margaret Barbour

The Magnificent Flirt

1928

as Denise Laverne

The Whip Woman

1928

as The Girl

Naughty But Nice

1927

as (uncredited)

Her Wild Oat

1927

as Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)

The Sheik

1921

as Arab Child (uncredited)

5.9

White and Unmarried

1921

as Child (uncredited)

The Only Way

1919

as Child on Operating Table

Sirens of the Sea

1917

as Child (as Gretchen Young)

The Primrose Ring

1917

as Fairy (uncredited)