Loretta Young

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Born: 6th January, 1913
Died: 12th August, 2000
Country: USA
Occupation: Actress
Quote: " The other aspects of being a movie star I can't knock: the fame, the grand houses, the glamour, the money, friends."

We've lost another great from the golden age of Hollywood: the delicate beauty that was Loretta Young. So famed were her looks that frequent close-ups became a keynote of her screen appearances.

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Starting out as a bit part player in her youth, Loretta Young worked through the silent age (one of those bit parts being in 'The Sheik') and toiled through the 30's in roles that never really got her anywhere. Once she entered into a contract with 20th Century Fox in the mid-30's, her career took off, particularly with hit movies such as 1935's 'Call of the Wild' (during which she began a noted relationship with Clark Gable) and 'Kentucky' (1938), opposite Richard Greene and Walter Brennan.

She continued on as one of Hollywood's leading ladies well into the late '40's, appearing in such hits as 1947's 'The Farmer's Daughter', her performance as Swedish housemaid Katrin Holstrom netting her a Best Actress Oscar®. The Henry Koster classic 'The Bishop's Wife' (1947), where she played the title role opposite Cary Grant and David Niven. 'Come to the Stable' (1949) , again directed by Koster, led to another Oscar® nomination, this time for her role as Sister Margaret, a French nun raising money to build a children's dispensary in New England.

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When it appeared her movie career was waning, Ms Young moved straight into the new medium of television and became one of it's pioneers, with her anthology program 'The Loretta Young Show', for which she won numerous Emmy's. Miss Young effectively retired once her TV series completed, returning to the small screen later in life in such dramas as Christmas Eve (1986).

Other Recommended Movies:

'Cafe Metropole '(1937)
'The Story of Alexander Graham Bell '(1939)
'The Stranger' (1946)

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