Biography
Loretta 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.
Also known as
Gretchen Michaela Young · Gretchen Young · Лоретта Янг · Saint Loretta
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Roles across career
Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).
126
Acting credits
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Most critically rated
Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)
Most commercially successful
Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)
- 1
645 votesThe Stranger
1946 · movie
- 2
282 votesThe Bishop's Wife
1947 · movie
- 3
62 votesThe Sheik
1921 · movie
- 4
56 votesPlatinum Blonde
1931 · movie
- 5
53 votesCall of the Wild
1935 · movie
- 6
43 votesCause for Alarm!
1951 · movie
- 7
40 votesLaugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 · movie
- 8
39 votesThe Farmer's Daughter
1947 · movie
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
1917 2 title(s)
1919 1 title(s)
1921 2 title(s)
1927 2 title(s)
1928 5 title(s)
1929 7 title(s)
Fast Life
movie · as Patricia Mason Stratton · ★ 9.0
Seven Footprints to Satan
movie · as One of Satan's Victims · ★ 6.2
The Careless Age
movie · as Muriel · ★ 8.0
The Forward Pass
movie · as Patricia Carlyle · ★ 9.0
The Girl in the Glass Cage
movie · as Gladys Cosgrove · ★ 7.5
The Show of Shows
movie · as Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number · ★ 6.6
The Squall
movie · as Irma · ★ 4.0
1930 11 title(s)
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
movie · as Self · ★ 4.5
Kismet
movie · as Marsinah · ★ 4.0
Loose Ankles
movie · as Ann · ★ 4.3
Road to Paradise
movie · as Margaret Waring / Mary Brennan · ★ 6.4
Show Girl in Hollywood
movie · as Loretta Young · ★ 5.8
The Devil to Pay!
movie · as Dorothy Hope · ★ 5.8
The Man from Blankley's
movie · as Margery Seaton · ★ 7.0
The Right of Way
movie · as Rosalie Evantural · ★ 5.2
The Second Floor Mystery
movie · as Marion Ferguson · ★ 8.0
The Truth About Youth
movie · as Phyllis Ericson · ★ 6.2
War Nurse
movie · as Nurse (uncredited) · ★ 5.2
1931 9 title(s)
Beau Ideal
movie · as Isobel Brandon · ★ 4.5
Big Business Girl
movie · as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre · ★ 6.8
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
movie · Acting · ★ 7.0
I Like Your Nerve
movie · as Diane Forsythe · ★ 5.9
Platinum Blonde
movie · as Gallagher · ★ 6.7
The Ruling Voice
movie · as Gloria Bannister · ★ 6.2
The Stolen Jools
movie · as Loretta Young · ★ 5.6
Three Girls Lost
movie · as Norene McMann · ★ 8.0
Too Young to Marry
movie · as Elaine Bumpstead · ★ 8.0
1932 6 title(s)
1933 9 title(s)
Employees' Entrance
movie · as Madeleine Walters West · ★ 6.1
Grand Slam
movie · as Marcia Stanislavsky · ★ 4.6
Heroes for Sale
movie · as Ruth Loring · ★ 7.1
Man's Castle
movie · as Trina · ★ 6.8
Midnight Mary
movie · as Mary · ★ 6.8
She Had to Say Yes
movie · as Florence 'Flo' Denny · ★ 5.7
The Devil's in Love
movie · as Margot Lesesne · ★ 6.0
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
movie · as Peggy · ★ 6.2
Zoo in Budapest
movie · as Eve · ★ 4.8
1934 5 title(s)
1935 5 title(s)
1936 4 title(s)
1937 5 title(s)
1938 4 title(s)
1939 3 title(s)
1940 2 title(s)
1941 4 title(s)
1942 1 title(s)
1944 3 title(s)
1945 1 title(s)
1946 1 title(s)
1947 3 title(s)
1948 1 title(s)
1949 3 title(s)
1950 4 title(s)
1951 2 title(s)
1952 2 title(s)
1953 2 title(s)
It Happens Every Thursday
movie · as Jane MacAvoy · ★ 6.3
Letter to Loretta
tv · as Carol Brown, as Barbara Devon, as Self - Host, as Ruth Baxter, as Kim Collet, as Margaret Channing, as Audrey Curtis, as Janice Hite, as Helen Seaton, as Catherine Harding, as Laura Macklin, as Mabel MacAfee, as Judy Evans, as Ellie Winters, as Queen Nefertiti, as Victor Conrad, as Muriel Vail, as Countess, as Sister Ann, as Gretchen Brock-Miller, as Martha, as Miss Ryan, as Gerda Freuling, as Edie Royal, as Penelope Ashley, as Kiku Arikawa, as Thelma Brown, as Jean Kennedy, as Allison Bainworth, as Susan Parker, as Countess Barocci, as Pam Gates, as Karima, as Amy Stewart, as Kay Mathews, as Judge Lila Brighton, as Janet Forbes, as Alma, as Beth Hammond, as Peggy Simms / Miss Connally, as Taka, as Maria Gordella, as Connie Van, as Fay Davies, as Janet Barlow, as Margaret Hutchins, as Vera Wilson, as Alice Ward, as Augusta Smith, as Susan Glover, as Madeliene Vanderhoff, as Polly Fry, as Norma Hutton, as Audrey Dickerson, as Katharine, as Eleanor Stark, as Sally Hays, as Anita Dodd, as Donna Landon, as Irene Sherwood, as Felice Minton, as Betty Rogers, as Dina, as Yuki Arakawa, as Katherine Ward, as Margaret Underwood, as Isobel DeHavilland, as Elizabeth Collier, as Lucy Anderson, as Sylvia, as Margo Randall, as Louise Roberts, as Linda Perkins, as Harriet Sands, as Nora Halliday, as Helen Talbot, as Madge Mason, as Nancy Hamilton, as Marcy Thorne, as Jane Seaton, as Betty Taylor, as Alva Knox, as Teddy Butler, as Sally Webster, as Irene Dodds, as Norma Kelvin, as Inga Helborg, as Jenny, as Kitty Coughlin, as Paula, as Miss Springs, as Harriet Patton, as Susan Stevens - Stepmother, as Mary Bertch, as Scottie, as Penny Blodgett, as Grace Hart, as Suzie James, as Amanda Seaton, as Audrey - a teacher, as Alison Ives, as Cora Skinner, as Kathy Ames, as Susan Franklin, as Dr. Juliet, as Elizabeth Stacey, as Rita Cole, as Lynn Roth, as Alice Hendricks, as Janet Pressman, as Marcella Dawson, as Ellen Morgan, as Ayesha the Maharani, as Prudence Bixby, as Sadie - Coffee Shop Waitress, as Kiyoshi, as Ruth Handley / Rosalie Simms, as Charlotte Bronte, as Amy, as Ethel Morris, as Lenore Kent, as Eve Wayne, as Self - Hostess, as Peg Lincoln, as Judy Cavanaugh, as May Ranson, as Emily Pierson, as Sarella · ★ 6.6
