Loretta Young

Personal Info

Birthday

January 6, 1913

Day of Death

2000-08-12

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Also Known As

Gretchen Michaela Young

Gretchen Young

Лоретта Янг

Saint Loretta

Loretta Young

Biography

Loretta Young 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.