Loretta Young
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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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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Mother Is a Freshman | Abigail Fortitude Abbott | HIT | |
| 1928 | Laugh, Clown, Laugh | Simonetta | HIT | |
| 1946 | The Stranger | Mary Longstreet | HIT | |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Julia Brougham | HIT | |
| 1933 | Heroes for Sale | Ruth Loring | HIT | |
| 1937 | Café Metropole | Laura Ridgeway | HIT | |
| 1943 | Show-Business at War | Self | HIT | |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Katrin Holstrom | HIT | |
| 1933 | Midnight Mary | Mary | HIT | |
| 1933 | Man's Castle | Trina | HIT | |
| 1943 | China | Carolyn Grant | HIT | |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1931 | Platinum Blonde | Gallagher | HIT | |
| 1932 | Taxi! | Sue Riley Nolan | HIT | |
| 1942 | A Night to Remember | Nancy Troy | HIT | |
| 1949 | Come to the Stable | Sister Margaret | HIT | |
| 1936 | Private Number | Ellen Neal | HIT | |
| 1986 | Christmas Eve | Amanda Kingsley | HIT | |
| 1935 | Shanghai | Barbara Howard | HIT | |
| 1983 | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | HIT |