EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young (she took the name Michaela at confirmation) she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Loretta and her sisters Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane) worked as child actresses, of whom Loretta was the most successful.
1913-2000
Stats:
Height: 5' 6"
Eye Color: grey
Hair Color: brown
Nickname: "Attila the Nun"
Quote: "The easiest way to crush your laurels is to lean on them."
Height: 5' 6"
Eye Color: grey
Hair Color: brown
Nickname: "Attila the Nun"
Quote: "The easiest way to crush your laurels is to lean on them."
She was billed as "Gretchen Young" in the 1917 film, "Sirens of the Sea". It wasn't until 1928 that she was first billed as "Loretta Young", in "The Whip Woman". That same year she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film "Laugh, Clown, Laugh".
Young made as many as seven or eight movies a year and won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in "The Farmer's Daughter". The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in "The Bishop's Wife", a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season and was later remade as "The Preacher's Wife" with Whitney Houston. In 1949, Young received another Academy Award nomination (for "Come to the Stable") and in 1953 appeared in her last film, "It Happens Every Thursday".
Moving to television, she hosted and starred in the well-received half hour anthology series The Loretta Young Show. Her "sweeping" trademark appearance at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in various high fashion evening gowns. She returned at the program's conclusion to restate to the viewer the moral of the story just seen. Her program ran in prime time on NBC for eight years, the longest-running prime time network program ever hosted by a woman up to that time.
From the time of Young's retirement in the 1960s, until not long before her death, she devoted herself to volunteer work for charities and churches with her friend of many years, Jane Wyman. Young did, however, briefly come out of retirement to star in two television films, Christmas Eve (1986), and Lady in a Corner (1989). 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.
For more information about Loretta Young please visit: Wikipedia
Loretta Young's Filmography
1917 The Primrose Ring
1917 Sirens of the Sea
1919 The Only Way
1921 White and Unmarried
1921 The Sheik Arab
1927 Naughty But Nice
1927 Her Wild Oat
1928 The Whip Woman
1928 Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 The Magnificent Flirt
1928 The Head Man
1928 Scarlet Seas
1929 Seven Footprints to Satan
1929 The Squall
1929 The Girl in the Glass Cage
1929 Fast Life
1929 The Careless Age
1929 The Forward Pass
1929 The Show of Shows
1930 Loose Ankles
1930 The Man from Blankley's
1930 Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 The Second Floor Mystery
1930 Road to Paradise
1930 Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner
1930 Kismet
1930 War Nurse Nurse
1930 The Truth About Youth
1930 The Devil to Pay!
1931 How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones
1931 Beau Ideal
1931 The Right of Way
1931 The Stolen Jools
1931 Three Girls Lost
1931 Too Young to Marry
1931 Big Business Girl
1931 I Like Your Nerve
1931 The Ruling Voice
1931 Platinum Blonde
1932 Taxi!
1932 The Hatchet Man
1932 Play-Girl Buster
1932 Week-end Marriage
1932 Life Begins
1932 They Call It Sin
1933 Employees' Entrance
1933 Grand Slam
1933 Zoo in Budapest
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 Heroes for Sale
1933 Midnight Mary
1933 She Had to Say Yes
1933 The Devil's in Love
1933 Man's Castle
1934 The House of Rothschild
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Caravan Countess
1934 The White Parade
1935 Clive of India
1935 Shanghai
1935 The Call of the Wild
1935 The Crusades
1935 Hollywood Extra Girl
1936 The Unguarded Hour
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 Ladies in Love
1937 Love Is News
1937 Café Metropole
1937 Love Under Fire
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 Second Honeymoon
1938 Four Men and a Prayer
1938 Three Blind Mice
1938 Suez
1938 Kentucky
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 Eternally Yours
1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 He Stayed for Breakfast
1941 The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 The Men in Her Life
1941 Bedtime Story
1943 A Night to Remember
1943 China
1943 Show Business at War
1944 Ladies Courageous
1944 And Now Tomorrow
1945 Along Came Jones
1946 The Stranger
1947 The Perfect Marriage
1947 The Farmer's Daughter
1947 The Bishop's Wife
1948 Rachel and the Stranger
1949 The Accused
1949 Mother Is a Freshman
1949 Come to the Stable
1950 Key to the City
1951 You Can Change the World
1951 Cause for Alarm!
1951 Half Angel
1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards
1952 Paula
1953 Because of You
1953 It Happens Every Thursday
1917 Sirens of the Sea
1919 The Only Way
1921 White and Unmarried
1921 The Sheik Arab
1927 Naughty But Nice
1927 Her Wild Oat
1928 The Whip Woman
1928 Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 The Magnificent Flirt
1928 The Head Man
1928 Scarlet Seas
1929 Seven Footprints to Satan
1929 The Squall
1929 The Girl in the Glass Cage
1929 Fast Life
1929 The Careless Age
1929 The Forward Pass
1929 The Show of Shows
1930 Loose Ankles
1930 The Man from Blankley's
1930 Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 The Second Floor Mystery
1930 Road to Paradise
1930 Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner
1930 Kismet
1930 War Nurse Nurse
1930 The Truth About Youth
1930 The Devil to Pay!
1931 How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones
1931 Beau Ideal
1931 The Right of Way
1931 The Stolen Jools
1931 Three Girls Lost
1931 Too Young to Marry
1931 Big Business Girl
1931 I Like Your Nerve
1931 The Ruling Voice
1931 Platinum Blonde
1932 Taxi!
1932 The Hatchet Man
1932 Play-Girl Buster
1932 Week-end Marriage
1932 Life Begins
1932 They Call It Sin
1933 Employees' Entrance
1933 Grand Slam
1933 Zoo in Budapest
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933 Heroes for Sale
1933 Midnight Mary
1933 She Had to Say Yes
1933 The Devil's in Love
1933 Man's Castle
1934 The House of Rothschild
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Caravan Countess
1934 The White Parade
1935 Clive of India
1935 Shanghai
1935 The Call of the Wild
1935 The Crusades
1935 Hollywood Extra Girl
1936 The Unguarded Hour
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 Ladies in Love
1937 Love Is News
1937 Café Metropole
1937 Love Under Fire
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 Second Honeymoon
1938 Four Men and a Prayer
1938 Three Blind Mice
1938 Suez
1938 Kentucky
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 Eternally Yours
1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 He Stayed for Breakfast
1941 The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 The Men in Her Life
1941 Bedtime Story
1943 A Night to Remember
1943 China
1943 Show Business at War
1944 Ladies Courageous
1944 And Now Tomorrow
1945 Along Came Jones
1946 The Stranger
1947 The Perfect Marriage
1947 The Farmer's Daughter
1947 The Bishop's Wife
1948 Rachel and the Stranger
1949 The Accused
1949 Mother Is a Freshman
1949 Come to the Stable
1950 Key to the City
1951 You Can Change the World
1951 Cause for Alarm!
1951 Half Angel
1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards
1952 Paula
1953 Because of You
1953 It Happens Every Thursday
Early Days Productions: Loretta Young 09/04/2011
Full Movie: Cause For Alarm (1951)
Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen and his doctor are having an affair and also planning to kill him. He writes a letter to his lawyer detailing their alleged murder plot. After he has Ellen give the letter to their postman, he reveals its contents to her and then threatens her with a gun. The excitement proves to much and George suffers a fatal collapse. Now Ellen must find a way to retrieve the incriminating letter. - From the IMDB
