Greatest loretta young movie stars and Biography

When Gretchen Young was 3 years old, her mother moved with Gretchen and her sisters to Hollywood, where she established a boardinghouse. Gretchen was appearing on screen as a child extra by the time she was 4, joining her elder sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (later and better known as Sally Blane), as child players. Gretchen would later absent herself from the screen to attend convent school but returned at age 14 with a bit appearance in the 'Colleen Moore' vehicle "Naughty But Nice." (See related Trivia.) Gretchen Young became known as Loretta Young and let her blond hair revert to its natural brown. With her blue eyes, satin complexion and exquisite face, she succeeded in short order to be graduated from bit player to ingenue, thence to leading lady. Headlines erupted in 1930 when the actor Grant Withers, who was previously married and nine years her senior, eloped to Yuma, Arizona, with the 17-year-old Loretta. (They had both appeared in the 1930 Warner Bros. production "The Second Floor Mystery.") The marriage was annulled in 1931, the same year in which the pair would again co-appear on screen, in a film called, ironically enough, "Too Young to Marry." Loretta Young has always shown an elegant sort of beauty in her films, many of which were rather pedestrian fare. Yet she could act if called upon, as witness her performance in "The Farmer's Daughter" or in "Come to the Stable." She retired from films in 1953 and began a second, equally successful career. "The Loretta Young Show," a half-hour drama anthology series which ran on NBC-TV from September 1953 to September 1961, and which in its first season was called "A Letter to Loretta," featured Miss Young as hostess and frequently as lead actress. Although she is most remembered for her stunning gowns and swirling entrances, over the broadcast's eight-year run Miss Young also showed again that she could act. She won Emmy awards (for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series) in 1954, 1956 and 1958.


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