Loretta Young
American actress
Died when: 87 years 219 days (1051 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young;January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949).
Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961.
It earned three Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication.In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986.
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