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Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12,
2000) was an American actress.  

Born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City,
Utah, she moved with her family to Hollywood when
she was three years old.  Her sisters, Polly Ann
Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally
Blane), appeared in child parts in movies, and
young Gretchen did the same.  Her first role was
at age 4 in the silent film The Primrose Ring. 
The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with
little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her.  Even
though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to
live with Murray for two years.  Her half-sister
Georgianna (daughter of her mother and stepfather
George Belzer) eventually married Mexican actor
Ricardo Montalban.

She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film,
also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea.  It was not until
1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing,
in The Whip Woman.  The next year, she was
anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.

In 1930, Young, then only 17, ran off with
26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in
Yuma, Arizona.  (They had acted together in The
Second Floor Mystery.)  The marriage was annulled
the next year, just as their second movie
together, ironically called Too Young to Marry,
came out.

In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable and
became pregnant.  She and her mother moved to
Europe, returning with a daughter.  They told the
whole world that the little girl had been adopted.
 The daughter herself, known as Judy Lewis (she
took Young's second husband's last name), did not
know the true story until she herself was an
adult.

Young made several movies, working on as many as
seven or eight a year.  But although she was
receiving fan and critical appreciation, it wasn't
until 1947 that she received her first Academy
Award|Oscar nomination -- and win -- for The
Farmer's Daughter.  The same year she starred in
The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still
airs on television during the Christmas season.

In 1949, she received another Academy Award
nomination, for Come to the Stable.  In 1953 she
made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. 
Moving to television, she hosted and starred in
the well-received anthology series The Loretta
Young Show.  Her trademark at the beginning of
each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway,
dressed in the latest of high fashion evening
gowns.

She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of
87 at her half-sister Georgianna's home in Santa
Monica, California, and was interred in the Holy
Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.

==Filmography==

*The Primrose Ring (1917)
*Sirens of the Sea (1917)
*The Only Way (1919)
*White and Unmarried (1921)
*The Shiek (1921)
*Naughty But Nice (1927)
*Her Wild Oat (1927)
*The Whip Woman (1928)
*Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
*The Magnificent Flirt (1928)
*The Head Man (1928)
*Scarlet Seas (1928)
*Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
*The Squall (1929)
*The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)
*Fast Life (1929)
*The Careless Age (1929)
*The Forward Pass (1929)
*The Show of Shows (1929)
*Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner (1930) (short
subject)
*Loose Ankles (1930)
*The Man from Blankleys (1930)
*Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) (Cameo)
*The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
*Road to Paradise (1930)
*Kismet (1930)
*The Truth About Youth (1930)
*The Devil to Pay! (1930)
*How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The
Brassie (1931) (short subject)
*Beau Ideal (1931)
*The Right of Way (1931)
*The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject)
*Three Girls Lost (1931)
*Too Young to Marry (1931)
*Big Business Girl (1931)
*I Like Your Nerve (1931)
*The Ruling Voice (1931)
*Platinum Blonde (1931)
*Taxi! (1932)
*The Hatchet Man (1932)
*Play-Girl (1932)
*Week-end Marriage (1932)
*Life Begins (1932)
*They Call It Sin (1932)
*Employees' Entrance (1933)
*Grand Slam (1933)
*Zoo in Budapest (1933)
*The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
*Heroes for Sale (1933)
*Midnight Mary (1933)
*She Had to Say Yes (1933)
*The Devil's In Love (1933)
*Man's Castle (1933)
*The House of Rothschild (1934)
*Born to Be Bad (1934)
*Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) 
*Caravan (1934)
*The White Parade (1934)
*Clive of India (1935)
*Shanghai (1935)
*The Call of the Wild (1935)
*The Crusades (1935)
*Hollywood Extra Girl (1935) (short subject)
*The Unguarded Hour (1936)
*Private Number (1936)
*Ramona (1936)
*Ladies In Love (1936)
*Love Is News (1937)
*Cafe Metropole (1937)
*Love Under Fire (1937)
*Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
*Second Honeymoon (1937)
*Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
*Three Blind Mice (1938)
*Suez (1938)
*Kentucky (1938)
*Wife, Husband and Friend (1938)
*The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
*Eternally Yours (1939)
*The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
*He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
*The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
*The Men in Her Life (1941)
*Bedtime Story (1941)
*A Night to Remember (1943)
*China (1943)
*Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
*Ladies Courageous (1944)
*And Now Tomorrow (1944)
*Along Came Jones (1945)
*The Stranger (1946 movie)|The Stranger (1946)
*The Perfect Marriage (1947)
*The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
*The Bishop's Wife (1947)
*Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
*The Accused (1949)
*Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
*Come to the Stable (1949)
*Key to the City (1950)
*You Can Change the World (1951) (short subject)
*Cause for Alarm! (1951)
*Half Angel (1951)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short
subject)
*Paula (1952)
*Because of You (1952)
*It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

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Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12,
2000) was an American actress.  

Born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City,
Utah, she moved with her family to Hollywood when
she was three years old.  Her sisters, Polly Ann
Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally
Blane), appeared in child parts in movies, and
young Gretchen did the same.  Her first role was
at age 4 in the silent film The Primrose Ring. 
The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with
little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her.  Even
though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to
live with Murray for two years.  Her half-sister
Georgianna (daughter of her mother and stepfather
George Belzer) eventually married Mexican actor
Ricardo Montalban.

She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film,
also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea.  It was not until
1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing,
in The Whip Woman.  The next year, she was
anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.

In 1930, Young, then only 17, ran off with
26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in
Yuma, Arizona.  (They had acted together in The
Second Floor Mystery.)  The marriage was annulled
the next year, just as their second movie
together, ironically called Too Young to Marry,
came out.

In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable and
became pregnant.  She and her mother moved to
Europe, returning with a daughter.  They told the
whole world that the little girl had been adopted.
 The daughter herself, known as Judy Lewis (she
took Young's second husband's last name), did not
know the true story until she herself was an
adult.

Young made several movies, working on as many as
seven or eight a year.  But although she was
receiving fan and critical appreciation, it wasn't
until 1947 that she received her first Academy
Award|Oscar nomination -- and win -- for The
Farmer's Daughter.  The same year she starred in
The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still
airs on television during the Christmas season.

In 1949, she received another Academy Award
nomination, for Come to the Stable.  In 1953 she
made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. 
Moving to television, she hosted and starred in
the well-received anthology series The Loretta
Young Show.  Her trademark at the beginning of
each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway,
dressed in the latest of high fashion evening
gowns.

She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of
87 at her half-sister Georgianna's home in Santa
Monica, California, and was interred in the Holy
Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.

==Filmography==

*The Primrose Ring (1917)
*Sirens of the Sea (1917)
*The Only Way (1919)
*White and Unmarried (1921)
*The Shiek (1921)
*Naughty But Nice (1927)
*Her Wild Oat (1927)
*The Whip Woman (1928)
*Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
*The Magnificent Flirt (1928)
*The Head Man (1928)
*Scarlet Seas (1928)
*Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
*The Squall (1929)
*The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)
*Fast Life (1929)
*The Careless Age (1929)
*The Forward Pass (1929)
*The Show of Shows (1929)
*Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner (1930) (short
subject)
*Loose Ankles (1930)
*The Man from Blankleys (1930)
*Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) (Cameo)
*The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
*Road to Paradise (1930)
*Kismet (1930)
*The Truth About Youth (1930)
*The Devil to Pay! (1930)
*How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The
Brassie (1931) (short subject)
*Beau Ideal (1931)
*The Right of Way (1931)
*The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject)
*Three Girls Lost (1931)
*Too Young to Marry (1931)
*Big Business Girl (1931)
*I Like Your Nerve (1931)
*The Ruling Voice (1931)
*Platinum Blonde (1931)
*Taxi! (1932)
*The Hatchet Man (1932)
*Play-Girl (1932)
*Week-end Marriage (1932)
*Life Begins (1932)
*They Call It Sin (1932)
*Employees' Entrance (1933)
*Grand Slam (1933)
*Zoo in Budapest (1933)
*The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
*Heroes for Sale (1933)
*Midnight Mary (1933)
*She Had to Say Yes (1933)
*The Devil's In Love (1933)
*Man's Castle (1933)
*The House of Rothschild (1934)
*Born to Be Bad (1934)
*Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) 
*Caravan (1934)
*The White Parade (1934)
*Clive of India (1935)
*Shanghai (1935)
*The Call of the Wild (1935)
*The Crusades (1935)
*Hollywood Extra Girl (1935) (short subject)
*The Unguarded Hour (1936)
*Private Number (1936)
*Ramona (1936)
*Ladies In Love (1936)
*Love Is News (1937)
*Cafe Metropole (1937)
*Love Under Fire (1937)
*Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
*Second Honeymoon (1937)
*Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
*Three Blind Mice (1938)
*Suez (1938)
*Kentucky (1938)
*Wife, Husband and Friend (1938)
*The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
*Eternally Yours (1939)
*The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
*He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
*The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
*The Men in Her Life (1941)
*Bedtime Story (1941)
*A Night to Remember (1943)
*China (1943)
*Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
*Ladies Courageous (1944)
*And Now Tomorrow (1944)
*Along Came Jones (1945)
*The Stranger (1946 movie)|The Stranger (1946)
*The Perfect Marriage (1947)
*The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
*The Bishop's Wife (1947)
*Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
*The Accused (1949)
*Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
*Come to the Stable (1949)
*Key to the City (1950)
*You Can Change the World (1951) (short subject)
*Cause for Alarm! (1951)
*Half Angel (1951)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short
subject)
*Paula (1952)
*Because of You (1952)
*It Happens Every Thursday (1953)