Loretta Young

Biography

Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1950. Young then moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series called The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Catholic, later worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Loretta Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Stranger

as Mary Longstreet

The Bishop's Wife

as Julia Brougham

The Sheik

as Arab Child (uncredited)

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

Platinum Blonde

as Gallagher

Call of the Wild

as Claire Blake

Cause for Alarm!

as Ellen Jones

The Farmer's Daughter

as Katrin Holstrom

Man's Castle

as Trina

Along Came Jones

as Cherry de Longpre