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  Young, Loretta
Loretta Young was one of the first Hollywood actresses to move successfully from movies to a television series.
Young's strong feelings about fashion were publicized again in the early 1970s when she won a suit against NBC for allowing her then-dated fashion introductions to be shown in syndication.
Loretta Young is probably most important to television's history as a woman who blazed a path for other women as both an actress and a producer, who succeeded with her own prime-time show in a format that was not a situation comedy, and who was able to transfer success in film to success in television.
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 Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 - August 12, 2000) was an American actress.
It was not until 1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing, in The Whip Woman[?].
Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.
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 Loretta Young Show, The
The Loretta Young Show, airing on NBC from 1953 to 1961, was the first and longest-running anthology drama series to feature a female star as host and actress.
Film star Loretta Young played a variety of characters in well over half of the episodes, but her glamorous, fashion-show entrances as host became one of the most memorable features of this prime-time series.
Young played a variety of characters, but stories most often centered around her as mother, daughter, wife, or single woman (often a professional) finding romance.
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 Loretta Young
Gretchen Young was born on January 6, 1913 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sirens of the Sea (1917) (as Gretchen Young)....
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Loretta Young
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 Loretta Young at Reel Classics
Forever young: the life, loves and enduring faith of a Hollywood legend: the authorized biography of Loretta Young by Joan Wester Anderson (Allen, TX: Thomas More, c2000).
Loretta Young: an extraordinary life by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (New York: Delacorte Press, c1986).
TVNow's monthly Loretta Young schedule -when her films will be on TV.
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 The LORETTA YOUNG Show
Loretta plays the critically ill wife of a retired boxer, who re-enters the ring to raise money for a life-saving operation for her.
Loretta is a newspaperwoman who considers her new post-war Korea assignment dull until she meets an orphan.
Loretta plays a simple working girl who is visited by a good fairy whose job is to make her wishes come true.
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 Loretta Young at AllExperts
Loretta and her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane), worked as child actresses, of which Loretta was the most successful.
Loretta Young was the godmother of actress Marlo Thomas, whose parents (her father was Danny Thomas), were, like Young, devout Roman Catholics.
Young died at 87 from ovarian cancer at the Santa Monica, California home of her (half)sister, Georgiana Montalban, and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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 Hollywood Mourns Loretta Young, Legendary Actress Dies At Age 87 - CBS News
Loretta Young, the elegant beauty whose acting career extended from silent movies to television and included an Academy Award for best actress in The Farmer's Daughter, died Saturday of ovarian cancer, her longtime agent and friend Norman Brokaw said.
Young died at her sister's home early Saturday morning, said Brokaw, her agent for 50 years and chairman of the William Morris Agency.
Young is survived by her sister, daugher Judy, of Los Angeles, and two sons, Peter, of Solvang, and Christopher, of Palm Springs.
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 A Tribute to Loretta Young
It wasn't until years later that I became aware of the fact that Loretta Young also had a successful screen career, making over 100 films from 1927 (at the end of the silent era) to 1989 (with an appearance in a TV-movie), in addition to a few movies she appeared in as a young child.
Gretchen Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 6, 1913, and moved with her mother to California at the age of 3.
Loretta Young died of ovarian cancer on August 12, 2000, at the age of 87, after a long career which established a benchmark for big screen and small screen glamour and elegance, not to mention strength and moral rectitude.
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 DVD Talk Review: The Loretta Young Show - Christina's Children Series
In 1953, when The Loretta Young Show premiered, it was no exaggeration to say that Young was perhaps the biggest movie star to come to TV up to that time.
Each episode was introduced by Miss Young in a manner that would become her trademark (and the frequent target of satirists and comedians): she would come twirling onto a set that resembled a luxurious living room, showing off the latest designer gowns.
The picture quality of The New Loretta Young Show: Christine's Children is fairly poor; it appears that these are 16mm dupes of the original masters, transferred to tape, so don't expect a particularly clear picture.
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 Loretta Young - Actor Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of.
In this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as Ann Harper, a wealthy socialite who has inherited a fortune provided the family is involved no scandals appearing in print, and her two aunts and uncle consent to the marriage.
Half-Indian girl (Young) brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house (Taylor) against his family's wishes and loves another Indian (Ameche) employed by the household.
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 Denny Jackson's Loretta Young Page
Young's brother-in-law was an assistant director and managed to get the young Loretta a small role in the film, THE ONLY WAY in 1917.
It was at Fox that Loretta became one of the premiere leading ladies of Hollywood.
Loretta, finally, was given her due when she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER (1947) a tale of a farm girl who rises through the ranks and becomes a Congresswoman.
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 The Loretta Young Show [TV Series] | Cast & Crew | MTV Movies
Though there was talk that the ailing Loretta would be permanently replaced by her close friend Anita Louise, Young had recovered sufficiently by the winter of 1955 to resume her TV hosting duties, though henceforth she would star in only about half of the episodes.
From 1953 through 1958, The Loretta Young Show was produced by the star's then-husband Tom Lewis; their acrimonious divorce in 1958 almost brought the show to a close in a maelstrom of suits and countersuits, but the series managed to remain on the NBC Sunday-night schedule until September 10, 1961.
This series would later be folded into the syndicated Loretta Young Show package -- which, as it turns out, was not widely shown until the '80s, due to Young's efforts to prevent its distribution on the grounds that the fashions she wore in the introductions had become outdated.
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 Loretta Young
When Loretta was 10 her mother got married again to one of her boarders George Belzer and they had daughter Georgianna two years later.
Further, portraying the fourth on-screen sister was a fourth real-life sister, Georgiana Young, although the latter was not a professional actress.
In 1972, Miss Young sued NBC for violating her contract in allowing reruns of "The Loretta Young Show" to be shown, wherein audiences might have ridiculed her gowns and hairstyles, which were by then 10 or even 20 years out of date.
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 Loretta Young Show TV Show - Loretta Young Show Television Show - TV.com
Welcome to the Loretta Young Show guide at TV.com The Loretta Young Show's trademark was the dramatic entrance Miss Young made at the beginning of each episode.
When this series premiered it was titled "Letter to Loretta." All of the stories were done as responses to letters that she had received.
Although the title was changed to "The Loretta Young Show" on February 7, 1954, this format was retained through the first two seasons.
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 † Loretta Young 11-08-2000 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Gretchen Young was three years old her mother moved with her and her sisters to Hollywood, where she established a boarding house.
Loretta has always shown an elegant sort of beauty in her films, many of which were rather pedestrian fare.
She retired from films in 1953 and began a second, equally successful career as hostess of "Letter to Loretta" (1953), a half-hour drama anthology series which ran on NBC from September 1953 to September 1961, and which in its first season was called "A Letter to Loretta".
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 Tribute to Loretta Young - Palm Springs, California
Loretta had given the couple the rights to sell the videos of her famed TV series and were packaging it for sale.
The answer, of course, was Loretta Young, the chiseled-cheeked leading lady who appeared in nearly 100 movies made from 1927 to 1953.
Though it's obvious they are quite devoted, Loretta kids that she and Jean were married as much to settle the confusion about her last name as any other reason.
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 Loretta Young Photos - Loretta Young News - Loretta Young Information
Loretta Young, born Gretchen Michaela Young on January 6, 1913, in Salt Lake City Utah, is an American film actress who got her start in the silents.
Loretta: A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Loretta Young returned to series television with this short-lived sitcom, where her only starring role was as Christine Massey, a widowed freelancer writer with seven children.
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 Loretta Young information - Search.com
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress.
Young was the godmother of actress Marlo Thomas who, like Young, was a Roman Catholic.
She died at 87 from ovarian cancer at the Santa Monica, California home of her (half)sister, Georgiana Montalban, and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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 CNN.com - Entertainment - Loretta Young, epitome of Hollywood glamour, dies of ovarian cancer at 87 - August 12, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Loretta Young, the elegant beauty whose acting career extended from silent movies to television and included an Academy Award for best actress in "The Farmer's Daughter," died Saturday of ovarian cancer, her longtime agent and friend Norman Brokaw said.
Young died at the home of her sister Georgiana Montalban and actor Ricardo Montalban early Saturday morning, said Brokaw, her agent for 50 years and chairman of the William Morris Agency.
Lewis, Miss Young had her baby in secret in late 1935, then eventually "adopted" the child when she was 2.
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 Loretta Young : Oldies.com
A handsome young American, Otis Madison volunteers for the French Foreign Legion to fulfill an urgent, personal mission - to find his old, childhood playmate, John Geste, rescue him from the horrors of a military prison in the African desert and bring him home to his sweetheart Isobel (Lorettta Young).
Vivacious actress Loretta Young stars in four gripping episodes of the long-running television series in which her swirling entrances in designer gowns became famous.
In this gripping classic, Cary Grant stars as a dairy farmer whose kindness towards an unmarried woman (Loretta Young) and her son results in betrayal.
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 BBC News | AMERICAS | Elegant beauty Loretta Young dies
The elegant beauty Loretta Young, whose acting career extended from silent movies to television, has died aged 87 of ovarian cancer.
Loretta Young was born Gretchen Young in January 1913.
Loretta Young became famous for the "close-ups" that were always included.
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 Loretta Young Show - Christina's Children Series DVD Movie
By the time THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW premiered in 1953, Young was a long-established Hollywood star.
Getting her start in silent films and growing with popularity through Hollywood's "Golden Age," Young went on to find success on television with the NBC series.
In this series, Young plays a magazine writer who also happens to be the mother of seven children.
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 Loretta Young at Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With her prominent cheekbones, limpid-pool eyes and Joan Crawford-style mouth, Young was often utilized for her stylish beauty and ladylike screen personality rather than the acting talent suggested by "Platinum Blonde" (1931), "Midnight Mary", "Man's Castle" and "Zoo in Budapest" (all 1933, and an excellent showcase triple bill for Young).
After the show went off the air, Young completely retired from performing, not returning to the spotlight until her roles a quarter of a century later in two NBC TV-movies, "Christmas Eve" (1986) and "Lady in a Corner" (1989).
In 1994 Young's daughter Judy Lewis wrote a book in which she revealed she had been fathered outside of wedlock by Clark Gable and that for years she had been led to believe that she had been adopted by Young.
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 Loretta Young Biography - Biography.com
Young’s parents separated when she was two years old, and she and her siblings moved with their mother to Hollywood, California, where their mother opened a boardinghouse.
In 1994, Young’s daughter, Judy Lewis—who had been publicly presented since the 1930s as the actress’ adopted child and had taken Young’s second husband’s name—claimed in her autobiography, Uncommon Knowledge, that she was actually the daughter of Young and Clark Gable.
Young refused to ever publicly confirm or deny her daughter’s account during her lifetime, and the two were estranged for several months after the book’s publication.
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 eBay Australia: Loretta Young Film Lobby Card Poster Paula (item 280049015485, end time 14-Mar-07 09:30:04 AEDST)
Young's brother-in-law was an assistant director and managed to get the young Loretta a small role in the film, THE ONLY WAY in 1917.
Young said no. Loretta did wind up staying with the Murray's for a year and a half.
It was at Fox that Loretta became one of the premiere leading ladies of Hollywood.
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 Loretta Young Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Young ended her film career to become a pioneer of the Golden Age of Television.
Except for absences for serious illness and the births of her children, she was continuously before the cameras from age 12 through the early 1960s, making more than 250 film performances and appearing on more than 300 television programs.
Loretta Young was named Gretchen by her parents when she was born on January 6, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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