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.

Filmography

• 2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)
• 1989Lady in a Corner — Grace Guthrie
• 1986Christmas Eve — Amanda Kingsley
• The New Loretta Young Show — Christine Massey
• 1961The Spark — Lucy Masters
• 1953It Happens Every Thursday — Jane MacAvoy
• Letter to Loretta — Carol Brown, Barbara Devon, Self - Host, Laura Macklin, Catherine Harding, Ruth Baxter, Mabel MacAfee, Margaret Channing, Kim Collet, Judy Evans, Audrey Curtis, Sister Ann, Penelope Ashley, Miss Ryan, Martha, Gerda Freuling, Muriel Vail, Edie Royal, Janice Hite, Victor Conrad, Queen Nefertiti, Ellie Winters, Allison Bainworth, Helen Seaton, Gretchen Brock-Miller, Countess, Thelma Brown, Kiku Arikawa, Susan Parker, Countess Barocci, Jean Kennedy, Pam Gates, Alma, Judge Lila Brighton, Maria Gordella, Susan Glover, Margaret Hutchins, Amy Stewart, Eleanor Stark, Beth Hammond, Peggy Simms / Miss Connally, Madeliene Vanderhoff, Karima, Kay Mathews, Connie Van, Janet Forbes, Taka, Sally Hays, Anita Dodd, Vera Wilson, Augusta Smith, Fay Davies, Audrey Dickerson, Polly Fry, Norma Hutton, Alice Ward, Donna Landon, Katharine, Felice Minton, Betty Rogers, Janet Barlow, Irene Sherwood, Yuki Arakawa, Katherine Ward, Linda Perkins, Dina, Nora Halliday, Louise Roberts, Margo Randall, Sylvia, Isobel DeHavilland, Margaret Underwood, Elizabeth Collier, Harriet Sands, Lucy Anderson, Betty Taylor, Paula, Irene Dodds, Helen Talbot, Jenny, Nancy Hamilton, Jane Seaton, Inga Helborg, Miss Springs, Norma Kelvin, Sally Webster, Harriet Patton, Kitty Coughlin, Teddy Butler, Alva Knox, Madge Mason, Marcy Thorne, Susan Stevens - Stepmother, Scottie, Alice Hendricks, Dr. Juliet, Amanda Seaton, Marcella Dawson, Audrey - a teacher, Lynn Roth, Penny Blodgett, Grace Hart, Rita Cole, Mary Bertch, Susan Franklin, Alison Ives, Elizabeth Stacey, Kathy Ames, Janet Pressman, Suzie James, Cora Skinner, Ellen Morgan, Ayesha the Maharani, Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms, Prudence Bixby, Kiyoshi, Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress, Charlotte Bronte, Ethel Morris, Lenore Kent, Eve Wayne, Self - Hostess, Peg Lincoln, Judy Cavanaugh, May Ranson, Emily Pierson, Sarella
• 1952Because of You — Christine Carroll Kimberly
• 1952Paula — Paula Rogers
• 1951Cause for Alarm! — Ellen Jones
• 1951Half Angel — Nora Gilpin
• 1950Key to the City — Clarissa Standish
• 1949Come to the Stable — Sister Margaret
• 1949Mother Is a Freshman — Abigail Fortitude Abbott
• 1949The Accused — Dr. Wilma Tuttle
• 1948Rachel and the Stranger — Rachel
• 1947The Bishop's Wife — Julia Brougham
• 1947The Farmer's Daughter — Katrin Holstrom
• 1947The Perfect Marriage — Maggie Williams
• 1946The Stranger — Mary Longstreet
• 1945Along Came Jones — Cherry de Longpre
• 1944And Now Tomorrow — Emily Blair
• 1944Ladies Courageous — Roberta Harper
• 1943China — Carolyn Grant
• 1942A Night to Remember — Nancy Troy
• 1941Bedtime Story — Jane Drake
• 1941Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
• 1941The Lady from Cheyenne — Annie Morgan
• 1941The Men in Her Life — Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
• 1940He Stayed for Breakfast — Marianna Duval
• 1940The Doctor Takes a Wife — June Cameron
• 1939Eternally Yours — Anita
• 1939The Story of Alexander Graham Bell — Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
• 1939Wife, Husband and Friend — Doris Borland
• 1938Four Men and a Prayer — Lynn Cherrington
• 1938Kentucky — Sally Goodwin
• 1938Suez — Countess Eugenie de Montijo
• 1938Three Blind Mice — Pamela Charters
• 1937Café Metropole — Laura Ridgeway
• 1937Love Is News — Tony Gateson
• 1937Love Under Fire — Myra Cooper
• 1937Second Honeymoon — Vicky
• 1937Wife, Doctor and Nurse — Ina Heath Lewis
• 1936Ladies in Love — Susie Schmidt
• 1936Private Number — Ellen Neal
• 1936Ramona — Ramona
• 1936The Unguarded Hour — Lady Helen Dearden
• 1935Call of the Wild — Claire Blake
• 1935Clive of India — Margaret Maskelyne
• 1935Hollywood Extra Girl — Crusades Actor (uncredited)
• 1935Shanghai — Barbara Howard
• 1935The Crusades — Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
• 1934Born to Be Bad — Letty Strong
• 1934Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back — Lola Field
• 1934Caravan — Countess Wilma
• 1934The House of Rothschild — Julie Rothschild
• 1934The White Parade — June Arden
• 1933Employees' Entrance — Madeleine Walters West
• 1933Grand Slam — Marcia Stanislavsky
• 1933Heroes for Sale — Ruth Loring
• 1933Man's Castle — Trina
• 1933Midnight Mary — Mary
• 1933She Had to Say Yes — Florence 'Flo' Denny
• 1933The Devil's in Love — Margot Lesesne
• 1933The Life of Jimmy Dolan — Peggy
• 1933Zoo in Budapest — Eve
• 1932Life Begins — Grace Sutton
• 1932Play Girl — Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
• 1932Taxi! — Sue Riley Nolan
• 1932The Hatchet Man — Sun Toya San
• 1932They Call It Sin — Marion Cullen
• 1932Week-End Marriage — Lola Davis Hayes
• 1931Beau Ideal — Isobel Brandon
• 1931Big Business Girl — Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
• 1931How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
• 1931I Like Your Nerve — Diane Forsythe
• 1931Platinum Blonde — Gallagher
• 1931The Ruling Voice — Gloria Bannister
• 1931The Stolen Jools — Loretta Young
• 1931Three Girls Lost — Norene McMann
• 1931Too Young to Marry — Elaine Bumpstead
• 1930Kismet — Marsinah
• 1930Loose Ankles — Ann
• 1930Road to Paradise — Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan
• 1930Show Girl in Hollywood — Loretta Young
• 1930The Devil to Pay! — Dorothy Hope
• 1930The Man from Blankley's — Margery Seaton
• 1930The Right of Way — Rosalie Evantural
• 1930The Second Floor Mystery — Marion Ferguson
• 1930The Truth About Youth — Phyllis Ericson
• 1930War Nurse — Nurse (uncredited)
• 1929Fast Life — Patricia Mason Stratton
• 1929Seven Footprints to Satan — One of Satan's Victims
• 1929The Careless Age — Muriel
• 1929The Forward Pass — Patricia Carlyle
• 1929The Girl in the Glass Cage — Gladys Cosgrove
• 1929The Show of Shows — Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
• 1929The Squall — Irma
• 1928Laugh, Clown, Laugh — Simonetta
• 1928Scarlet Seas — Margaret Barbour
• 1928The Head Man — Carol Watts
• 1928The Magnificent Flirt — Denise Laverne
• 1928The Whip Woman — The Girl
• 1927Her Wild Oat — Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)
• 1927Naughty But Nice — (uncredited)
• 1921The Sheik — Arab Child (uncredited)
• 1921White and Unmarried — Child (uncredited)
• 1919The Only Way — Child on Operating Table
• 1917Sirens of the Sea — Child (as Gretchen Young)
• 1917The Primrose Ring — Fairy (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 200642nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces — Self (voice)
• 1995Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 20/20 — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• 1961Hollywood: The Selznick Years — Self - 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Bob Hope Show — Self
• 1950The Costume Designer — Self (archive footage)
• 1950You Can Change The World — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee
• 1943Show-Business at War — Self
• 1930An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee — Self