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Loretta Young
Known for: ActingLoretta 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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Rachel and the Stranger
as Rachel
The Bishop's Wife
The Stranger
Call of the Wild
as Claire Blake
Taxi!
as Sue Riley Nolan
The Farmer's Daughter
as Katrin Holstrom
Beau Ideal
Key to the City
as Clarissa Standish
Come to the Stable
as Sister Margaret
Cause for Alarm!
Because of You
as Christine Carroll Kimberly
The House of Rothschild
The Right of Way
as Rosalie Evantural
Lady in a Corner
as Grace Guthrie
Along Came Jones
as Cherry de Longpre
Suez
as Countess Eugenie de Montijo
Platinum Blonde
as Gallagher
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (voice)
The Truth About Youth
The Sheik
The Men in Her Life
as Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Lola Field
Midnight Mary
as Mary
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
The Crusades
as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
You Can Change The World
as Self
Big Business Girl
as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
Seven Footprints to Satan
as One of Satan's Victims
China
as Carolyn Grant
Born to Be Bad
as Letty Strong
The Devil to Pay!
The Squall
Café Metropole
as Laura Ridgeway
Eternally Yours
Week-End Marriage
as Lola Davis Hayes
They Call It Sin
as Marion Cullen
Christmas Eve