Actress. She began her career at the age of 4 as a child extra in silent films. From that time on, she appeared in numerous films and made a smooth transition into talking pictures. In 1930, when she was 17, she eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers; they were married in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (coincidentally entitled Too Young to Marry) was released. In 1934, she co-starred with Cary Grant in the pre-Code drama Born to be Bad released by Twentieth Century Pictures. This film was rejected by the Hays Office twice before it was finally approved. The next year, Young starred opposite Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in Call of the Wild, the 1935 film adaptation of Jack London's action-adventure novel The Call of the Wild, directed by William A. Wellman. Also in 1935, she portrayed Berengaria, Princess of Navarre in the Cecil B. DeMille-directed historical epic The Crusades (1935). The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it received an award for Best Foreign Film. The 1940s were more successful for her as she acted in notable films such as "A Night to Remember" (1942) and "The Stranger" (1946) which she starred in opposite Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson. In 1947, she starred in "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947) which she won an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress for her performance, and "The Bishop's Wife" (1947) starring opposite Cary Grant. She received her second Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" (1949). Her last notable film appearances were in the films "Cause for Alarm!" (1951) and "It Happens Every Thursday" (1953). She retired from films in 1953 to host her own TV series appropriately titled "The Loretta Young Show." The show was very successful, winning 3 Emmy Awards. In 1961, she wrote a memoir entitled "The Things I Had to Learn." In 1997, her elder sisters and her brother all died. She died in 2000, aged 87, of ovarian cancer, and was interred in the same plot where her mother, Gladys Royal Belzer (formerly Young), had been buried.
Actress. She began her career at the age of 4 as a child extra in silent films. From that time on, she appeared in numerous films and made a smooth transition into talking pictures. In 1930, when she was 17, she eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers; they were married in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (coincidentally entitled Too Young to Marry) was released. In 1934, she co-starred with Cary Grant in the pre-Code drama Born to be Bad released by Twentieth Century Pictures. This film was rejected by the Hays Office twice before it was finally approved. The next year, Young starred opposite Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in Call of the Wild, the 1935 film adaptation of Jack London's action-adventure novel The Call of the Wild, directed by William A. Wellman. Also in 1935, she portrayed Berengaria, Princess of Navarre in the Cecil B. DeMille-directed historical epic The Crusades (1935). The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it received an award for Best Foreign Film. The 1940s were more successful for her as she acted in notable films such as "A Night to Remember" (1942) and "The Stranger" (1946) which she starred in opposite Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson. In 1947, she starred in "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947) which she won an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress for her performance, and "The Bishop's Wife" (1947) starring opposite Cary Grant. She received her second Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" (1949). Her last notable film appearances were in the films "Cause for Alarm!" (1951) and "It Happens Every Thursday" (1953). She retired from films in 1953 to host her own TV series appropriately titled "The Loretta Young Show." The show was very successful, winning 3 Emmy Awards. In 1961, she wrote a memoir entitled "The Things I Had to Learn." In 1997, her elder sisters and her brother all died. She died in 2000, aged 87, of ovarian cancer, and was interred in the same plot where her mother, Gladys Royal Belzer (formerly Young), had been buried.
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Her ashes are buried in her mother's plot.
