Loretta Young
Birthday: 1913-01-06
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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.
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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The Stranger
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who ...
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Platinum Blonde
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her hig...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs lea...
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Sirens of the Sea
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Naughty But Nice
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenic...
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Her Wild Oat
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon an...
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The Head Man
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The Spark
When the Young Show was cancelled, Miss Young decided to produce a pilot for a new series. "The Spar...
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Cause for Alarm!
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The Accused
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense....
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Rachel and the Stranger
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The Farmer's Daughter
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The Perfect Marriage
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court....
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Employees' Entrance
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She Had to Say Yes
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Grea...
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Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled ...
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Heroes for Sale
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Bishop's Wife
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new c...
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Bedtime Story
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Midnight Mary
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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Taxi!
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a...
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Born to Be Bad
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Along Came Jones
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The Stolen Jools
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The White Parade
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The House of Rothschild
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Eternally Yours
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A Night to Remember
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The Crusades
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem....
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They Call It Sin
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The Devil to Pay!
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too...
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Clive of India
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Wife, Husband and Friend
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Mother Is a Freshman
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...
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Zoo in Budapest
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Come to the Stable
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Man's Castle
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Big Business Girl
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Key to the City
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Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night ...
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Loose Ankles
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only recei...
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And Now Tomorrow
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to ...
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Ramona
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his fami...
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Love Under Fire
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War....
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Beau Ideal
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend....
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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Week-End Marriage
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The Hatchet Man
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....
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Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and...
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Life Begins
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward...
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Shanghai
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian b...
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Call of the Wild
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold f...
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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I Like Your Nerve
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Grand Slam
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China
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the m...
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The Second Floor Mystery
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names...
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The Squall
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family....
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Second Honeymoon
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Road to Paradise
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels...
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Ladies in Love
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The Truth About Youth
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him....
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The Ruling Voice
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime....
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and woman...
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The Unguarded Hour
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man....
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The Right of Way
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It Happens Every Thursday
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Paula
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The Devil's in Love
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andr...
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Three Blind Mice
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husb...
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Private Number
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi...
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Kismet
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r...
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street....
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The Forward Pass
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for...
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...
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The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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Scarlet Seas
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes he...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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War Nurse
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I....
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Caravan
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, H...
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Christmas Eve
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with childre...
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The Men in Her Life
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a ho...
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Three Girls Lost
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with he...
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Fast Life
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to de...
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Too Young to Marry
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbe...
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Lady in a Corner
Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off ...
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and ...
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The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her of...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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The Careless Age
Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as ...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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You Can Change The World
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the hou...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daught...
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The Costume Designer
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the...
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The Man from Blankley's
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mis...
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and ...
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The Magnificent Flirt
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. ...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...
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Hollywood Extra Girl
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film....
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The Primrose Ring
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to d...
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White and Unmarried
When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable...
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The Whip Woman
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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