Loretta Young

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.

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Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Brenon
CAST:  Lon Chaney  •  Bernard Siegel  •  Loretta Young  •  Cissy Fitzgerald

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Herbert Brenon
CAST:  Lon Chaney  •  Bernard Siegel  •  Loretta Young  •  Cissy Fitzgerald

Cause for Alarm! (1951)

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Barry Sullivan  •  Bruce Cowling  •  Margalo Gillmore

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Barry Sullivan  •  Bruce Cowling  •  Margalo Gillmore

Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Foster
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Robert Mitchum  •  William Holden  •  Gary Gray

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Foster
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Robert Mitchum  •  William Holden  •  Gary Gray

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Cary Grant  •  Loretta Young  •  David Niven  •  Monty Woolley

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Cary Grant  •  Loretta Young  •  David Niven  •  Monty Woolley

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.  (more)

DIRECTION:  H. C. Potter
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Joseph Cotten  •  Ethel Barrymore  •  Charles Bickford

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.  (more)

DIRECTION:  H. C. Potter
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Joseph Cotten  •  Ethel Barrymore  •  Charles Bickford

The Sheik (1921)

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Melford
CAST:  Rudolph Valentino  •  Agnes Ayres  •  Ruth Miller  •  George Waggner

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Melford
CAST:  Rudolph Valentino  •  Agnes Ayres  •  Ruth Miller  •  George Waggner

Show of Shows (1929)

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Adolfi
CAST:  Frank Fay  •  William Courtenay  •  H.B. Warner  •  Hobart Bosworth

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Adolfi
CAST:  Frank Fay  •  William Courtenay  •  H.B. Warner  •  Hobart Bosworth

The House of Rothschild (1934)

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred L. Werker
CAST:  George Arliss  •  Boris Karloff  •  Loretta Young  •  C. Aubrey Smith

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred L. Werker
CAST:  George Arliss  •  Boris Karloff  •  Loretta Young  •  C. Aubrey Smith

The White Parade (1934)

The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  John Boles  •  Dorothy Wilson  •  Muriel Kirkland

The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  John Boles  •  Dorothy Wilson  •  Muriel Kirkland

Come to the Stable (1949)

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Celeste Holm  •  Hugh Marlowe  •  Elsa Lanchester

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Celeste Holm  •  Hugh Marlowe  •  Elsa Lanchester

Kentucky (1938)

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Butler
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Richard Greene  •  Walter Brennan  •  Douglass Dumbrille

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Butler
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Richard Greene  •  Walter Brennan  •  Douglass Dumbrille

The Hatchet Man (1932)

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Wellman
CAST:  Edward G. Robinson  •  Loretta Young  •  Dudley Digges  •  Leslie Fenton

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Wellman
CAST:  Edward G. Robinson  •  Loretta Young  •  Dudley Digges  •  Leslie Fenton

The Crusades (1935)

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cecil B. DeMille
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Henry Wilcoxon  •  Ian Keith  •  C. Aubrey Smith

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cecil B. DeMille
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Henry Wilcoxon  •  Ian Keith  •  C. Aubrey Smith

Platinum Blonde (1931)

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Capra
CAST:  Jean Harlow  •  Robert Williams  •  Loretta Young  •  Halliwell Hobbes

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Capra
CAST:  Jean Harlow  •  Robert Williams  •  Loretta Young  •  Halliwell Hobbes

War Nurse (1930)

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edgar Selwyn
CAST:  Robert Montgomery  •  Anita Page  •  June Walker  •  Robert Ames

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edgar Selwyn
CAST:  Robert Montgomery  •  Anita Page  •  June Walker  •  Robert Ames

The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Lloyd
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Robert Preston  •  Edward Arnold  •  Frank Craven

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Lloyd
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Robert Preston  •  Edward Arnold  •  Frank Craven

Ladies Courageous (1944)

Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Rawlins
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Geraldine Fitzgerald  •  Diana Barrymore  •  Anne Gwynne

Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Rawlins
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Geraldine Fitzgerald  •  Diana Barrymore  •  Anne Gwynne

Play Girl (1932)

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ray Enright
CAST:  Winnie Lightner  •  Loretta Young  •  Norman Foster  •  Guy Kibbee

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ray Enright
CAST:  Winnie Lightner  •  Loretta Young  •  Norman Foster  •  Guy Kibbee

He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Melvyn Douglas  •  Eugene Pallette  •  Alan Marshal

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Melvyn Douglas  •  Eugene Pallette  •  Alan Marshal

Bedtime Story (1941)

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Loretta Young  •  Robert Benchley  •  Allyn Joslyn

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Loretta Young  •  Robert Benchley  •  Allyn Joslyn
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