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 Farmers 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Loretta Young licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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