1. Loretta Young received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television.
38 Facts About Loretta Young
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Loretta Young won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter, and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable.
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Loretta Young starred in films such as Born to Be Bad, Call of the Wild, The Crusades, Eternally Yours, The Stranger, The Bishop's Wife, and Key to the City.
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Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961.
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Loretta Young starred in The New Loretta Young Show from 1962 to 1963.
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Loretta Young was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband and manager of actress Colleen Moore, who saw the young girl's potential.
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Moore gave her the name Loretta Young, explaining that it was the name of her favorite doll.
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Loretta Young was billed as Gretchen Loretta Young in the silent film Sirens of the Sea.
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Loretta Young was first billed as Loretta Young in 1928, in The Whip Woman.
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The next year Loretta Young starred opposite Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in the 1935 film adaptation of Jack London's action adventure novel The Call of the Wild, directed by William Wellman.
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Loretta Young made as many as eight movies a year, and her films in the 1940s were among the best regarded and most memorable of her career.
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In 1946, Loretta Young made The Stranger, in which she plays a small-town American woman who unknowingly marries a Nazi fugitive.
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Loretta Young took the director's side, even getting her agent on the phone to take Welles's side.
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In 1947, Loretta Young won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter, a political comedy that required her to learn a Swedish accent.
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Loretta Young earned three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for the program.
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Loretta Young's trademark was a dramatic entrance through a living room door in various high-fashion evening gowns.
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Loretta Young 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.
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The title was changed to The Loretta Young Show during the first season, and the "letter" concept was dropped at the end of the second season.
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Loretta Young testified that her image had been damaged by portraying her in "outdated gowns".
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Loretta Young briefly came out of retirement to star in the NBC television film Christmas Eve.
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The story revolves around an elderly woman played by Loretta Young who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children.
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Loretta Young then starred in her final role, another NBC television film, Lady in a Corner starring as the editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
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Loretta Young starred opposite Brian Keith, Roscoe Lee Brown, and Bruce Davison.
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In 1993, Loretta Young married for the third and final time, to the fashion designer Jean Louis.
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Loretta Young did not want to damage her career or that of Gable.
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Loretta Young knew if her studio, Twentieth Century Pictures, learned of her pregnancy, they would pressure her to have an abortion.
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Loretta Young was unwilling to have an abortion because she considered abortion a mortal sin.
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When Loretta Young's pregnancy began to advance, she went on a "vacation" to England.
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Loretta Young gave birth to a daughter, Judith, on November 6,1935, in Venice, California.
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Loretta Young named Judith after St Jude because he was the patron saint of difficult situations.
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Judith spent the next 19 months in various "hideaways and orphanages" before being re-united with her mother; Loretta Young then claimed that she had adopted Judith.
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In interviews with Anderson for the book, Loretta Young stated that Lewis was her biological child and the product of a brief affair with Gable.
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Loretta Young was a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in their presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1980, respectively.
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Loretta Young was 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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Loretta Young was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.
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Loretta Young died of ovarian cancer on August 12,2000, at the home of her maternal half-sister, Georgiana Loretta Young in Los Angeles, California.
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Loretta Young was interred in the family plot in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Loretta Young's ashes were buried in the grave of her mother, Gladys Belzer.