Born Gretchen Michaela Young within Salt Lake City, Utah, she moved with her personal to Hollywood when she was three years old. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane), appeared inside tike area in motion picture, & immature Gretchen did a equivalent. Her number 1 role was at age Four in the silent film The Primrose Ring. A moving picture's star, Mae Murray, so fell smitten by having little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her. Potentially though her mother said there is no, Gretchen was allowed to accept Murray for deuce years. Her half-sister Georgianna (girl of her mother & stepfather George Belzer) at length married Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban.

She wwhen billed as Gretchen Young withwithin her next film, too in 1917, Sirens of the Sea. It was non until 1928 that she first got her Loretta Young charge, in The Whip Woman. A next month, she was anointed one of a WAMPAS Baby Stars.

Within 1930, Young, then merely Seventeen, ran off sustaining 26-season-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona. (It experienced acted together in The Second Floor Mystery.) a marriage was annulled the next season, even as their 2nd motion picture together, ironically known as Too Young to Marry, came out.

Within 1934, Young had an affair using Clark Gable and became pregnant. She & her mother moved to Europe, returning using the girl. It told a whole globe that a little girl got been adopted. A girl herself, called Judy Lewis (she took Young's second married man's surname), did non understand a avowedly story until she herself was an adult.

Young manufactured several motiin-picture show, working on when many when 7 or even eight a year. However although she was getting fan & critical appreciation, it wasn't until 1947 that she received her first Oscar nomination -- and win -- for ''The Farmer's Daughter. A equivalent season she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season.

Around 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. Inside 1953 she made her previous motion-picture show, It Happens Every Thursday. Moving to television, she hosted & asterisked in the easily-received anthology series A Loretta Young Indicate''. Her trademark at the beginning of every indicate was to come out dramatically around a door, dressed in the latest of high fashion evening gowns.

She died of ovarian cancer inside 2000 at a age of 87 at her half-sister Georgianna's range in Santa Monica, California, and was inhumed in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Young has ii stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. & a single for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

The Primrose Ring (1917) Sirens of the Sea (1917) The Only Way (1919) White and Unmarried (1921) The Shiek (1921) Naughty But Nice (1927) Her Wild Oat (1927) The Whip Woman (1928) Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) The Magnificent Flirt (1928) The Head Man (1928) Scarlet Seas (1928) Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) The Squall (1929) The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929) Fast Life (1929) The Careless Age (1929) The Forward Pass (1929) The Show of Shows (1929) Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner (1930) (short subject) Loose Ankles (1930) The Man from Blankleys (1930) Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) (Cameo) The Second Floor Mystery (1930) Road to Paradise (1930) Kismet (1930) The Truth About Youth (1930) The Devil to Pay! (1930) ''How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie' (1931) (short subject) Beau Ideal (1931) The Right of Way (1931) The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject) Three Girls Lost (1931) Too Young to Marry (1931) Big Business Girl (1931) I Like Your Nerve (1931) The Ruling Voice (1931) Platinum Blonde (1931) Taxi! (1932) The Hatchet Man (1932) Play-Girl (1932) Week-end Marriage (1932) Life Begins (1932) They Call It Sin (1932) Employees' Entrance (1933) Grand Slam (1933) Zoo in Budapest (1933) The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Heroes for Sale (1933) Midnight Mary (1933) She Had to Say Yes (1933) The Devil's In Love (1933) Man's Castle (1933) The House of Rothschild (1934) Born to Be Bad (1934) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) Caravan (1934) The White Parade (1934) Clive of India (1935) Shanghai (1935) The Call of the Wild (1935) The Crusades (1935) Hollywood Extra Girl (1935) (short subject) The Unguarded Hour (1936) Private Number (1936) Ramona (1936) Ladies In Love (1936) Love Is News (1937) Cafe Metropole (1937) Love Under Fire (1937) Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937) Second Honeymoon (1937) Four Men and a Prayer (1938) Three Blind Mice (1938) Suez (1938) Kentucky (1938) Wife, Husband and Friend (1938) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Eternally Yours (1939) The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) He Stayed for Breakfast (1940) The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) The Men in Her Life (1941) Bedtime Story (1941) A Night to Remember (1943) China (1943) Show Business at War (1943) (short subject) Ladies Courageous (1944) And Now Tomorrow (1944) Along Came Jones (1945) The Stranger (1946) The Perfect Marriage (1947) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) The Bishop's Wife (1947) Rachel and the Stranger (1948) The Accused (1949) Mother Is a Freshman (1949) Come to the Stable (1949) Key to the City (1950) You Can Change the World (1951) (short subject) Cause for Alarm! (1951) Half Angel (1951) Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) (short subject) Paula (1952) Because of You (1952) It Happens Every Thursday'' (1953)