Loretta Young
American actress with an Academy Award and long-running TV anthology.
Loretta Young (1913–2000) was an actress who achieved success in motion pictures, radio theatre, and television.[1] She ended her film career to become a pioneer of the Golden Age of Television.[1] Her television series, The Loretta Young Show, was the first and longest-running anthology drama series hosted by a female star.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Gretchen Michaela Young
- Born
- 6 January 1913
- Birthplace
- Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
- Died
- 12 August 2000
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Resting place
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
- Known for
- The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable
- Occupation
- Actress, television host
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Young was born Gretchen Michaela Young on January 6, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Utah.[3] Silent star Colleen Moore gave her the name "Loretta" and became her mentor.[4] Young's first role was at age three in the silent film Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1916).[5] The 1928 First National Pictures film The Whip Woman marked the initial instance of Young being credited under the name "Loretta Young".[6]
At age 17, in 1930, Young married actor Grant Withers in Yuma, Arizona, after they eloped.[6] Young's widely-known romantic involvement with actor Spencer Tracy, her co-star in Man's Castle, lasted from September 1933 through June 1934.[7] For her performance in the 1947 RKO political comedy The Farmer's Daughter, Young received the Academy Award for Best Actress.[8] From 1953 until 1961, the anthology drama series The Loretta Young Show was broadcast on NBC.[2]
What the cited sources add
The Gale biography notes that few actors have enjoyed Young's professional longevity across three media.[1] The Television Academy interview states that Young's glamorous fashion-show entrances became the series's trademark.[2] The same source reports that Young won three Emmys as Best Actress for her show.[2] A BuzzFeed article recounts that Young later learned the term "date rape" and applied it to her encounter with Clark Gable.[4]
The Philadelphia Inquirer obituary of Judy Lewis confirms that Young's authorized biography acknowledged Lewis as Gable's daughter.[9]
References
- "Loretta Young Biography", Gale, November 2, 2010. facts only, no text reused. bookrags.com
- "Loretta Young Show, The", Television Academy Interviews, October 22, 2017. facts only, no text reused. interviews.televisionacademy.com
- Wikipedia, "Loretta Young" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sarvady 2006; Spicer 2002, p. 113; "Luxembourgers in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)", Library of Congress (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Petersen, "Clark Gable Accused of Raping Co-Star", BuzzFeed, July 12, 2015. facts only, no text reused. buzzfeed.com
- Wikipedia, "Loretta Young" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Loretta Young Biography", Gale, November 2, 2010 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Loretta Young" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lowe 2005, p. 67 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Loretta Young" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Curtis (2011), p. 210 for the beginning of the affair, pp. 213 and 215 for the public nature of the relationship, p. 235 for the break-up. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Loretta Young" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Welles 1992; Coe, "Welles Does Well by Orson in 'Stranger'", The Washington Post, October 10, 1946 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Downey, "Judy Lewis, daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, dies", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 30, 2011. facts only, no text reused. philly.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Loretta Young (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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