Loretta Young

Loretta Young
Studio portrait of Loretta Young, 1940s
Born	Gretchen Michaela Young (1913-01-06)January 6, 1913 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died	August 12, 2000(2000-08-12) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Occupations	Actress television host
Years active	1917–1994
Spouses	Grant Withers ​ ​ (m. 1930; ann. 1931)​ Tom Lewis ​ ​ (m. 1940; div. 1969)​ Jean Louis ​ ​ (m. 1993; died 1997)​
Children	Judy Christopher Peter
Relatives	Polly Ann Young (sister) Sally Blane (sister) Georgiana Young (maternal half-sister) David Lindley (nephew)

Loretta Young (born Gretchen Michaela 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 received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in film and television.

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). She also starred in films such as Born to Be Bad (1934), Call of the Wild (1935), The Crusades (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), The Stranger (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), and Key to the City (1950).

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 Primetime Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. She also starred in The New Loretta Young Show from 1962 to 1963. Young returned to the small screen in the 1980s starring in two NBC television movies, Christmas Eve (1986), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and Lady in a Corner (1989).