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Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She 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.
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entertainment · American actress (1913–2000) · film actor · screenwriter · television actor · actor · film producer · also Loretta Young, Gretchen Young, Young
Born 6 January 1913 · Died 12 August 2000 · Q253384
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Released album “Stories for Christmas”.
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2015· 1 entry
Linda Lewis, the wife of Young's son, Christopher, stated publicly that in 1998, Young (then 85 years old) had stated that Judy Lewis had been conceived through an act of date rape by Gable
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2011· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Walk of Stars, in Palm Springs, California, was dedicated to her
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2000· 2 entries
Died 2000-08-12.
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At the home of her maternal half-sister, Georgiana Young (the wife of actor Ricardo Montalbán) in Los Angeles, California
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1993· 1 entry
Young married for the third and final time, to fashion designer Jean Louis
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Crystal Award (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (1987).
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1972· 1 entry
A jury in Los Angeles awarded Young $550,000 in a lawsuit against NBC for breach of contract
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1966· 1 entry
The suit contended that NBC had allowed foreign television outlets to rerun old episodes of The Loretta Young Show, without excluding, as agreed by the parties, the opening segment in which Young made her entrance
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Letter to Loretta (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Letter to Loretta (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Letter to Loretta (1955).
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1953· 2 entries
Along with Anita Louise, Louella Parsons, Jane Russell, Dick Powell, June Allyson, and Lou Costello, among others
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Appeared in her last theatrical film, It Happens Every Thursday, a Universal comedy about a New York couple who move to California to take over a struggling weekly newspaper; her co-star was John Forsythe
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1952· 2 entries
Starred in the romance drama Because of You from Universal Pictures
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Appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D
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1950· 2 entries
Won Siena Medal (1950).
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Reunited with Clark Gable for the romantic comedy Key to the City
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1949· 1 entry
Received another Academy Award nomination for her role as Sister Margaret in the comedy drama Come to the Stable
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Farmer's Daughter (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
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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1946· 1 entry
Young made The Stranger, in which she plays a small-town American woman who unknowingly marries a Nazi fugitive (Orson Welles)
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1940· 1 entry
Young married producer Tom Lewis
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1938· 1 entry
Played Countess Eugenie de Montijo in the romantic drama Suez starring opposite Tyrone Power
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1935· 1 entry
Portrayed Berengaria, Princess of Navarre in the Cecil B
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1934· 1 entry
Co-starred with Cary Grant in the pre-Code drama Born to be Bad released by Twentieth Century Pictures
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1931· 1 entry
Young costarred with Jean Harlow and Robert Williams in his final role in Platinum Blonde
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1930· 2 entries
When she was 17, she eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers; they were married in Yuma, Arizona
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Which fractured her family as Withers was not Catholic
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-01-06.
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