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Loretta Young: Grant Withers
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When Gretchen Young was three years old, her mother took her and her sisters to Hollywood, where she established a boarding house. Gretchen was appearing on screen as a child extra by the time she was four, joining her elder sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (later better known as Sally Blane), as child players. Gretchen then left the screen to attend convent school, but returned at age 14 with a bit appearance in the Colleen Moore vehicle Naughty But Nice (1927). Changing her name to Loretta Young, letting her blond hair revert to its natural brown and with her blue eyes, satin complexion and exquisite face, she quickly graduated from bit player to ingénue to leading lady. She made headlines in 1930 when she and 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 Warner Bros.' The Second Floor Mystery (1930).
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Born Gretchen Michaela Young; January 6, 1913 (some sources say 1914), in Salt Lake City, UT; married Grant Withers (an actor), 1930 (divorced, 1931); married Thomas H.A. Lewis, 1940; children: Judy (first marriage; adopted); Christopher Paul, Peter (second marriage). Addresses: PUBLICIST--Joel Brokaw, The Brokaw Company, 9255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 706, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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In 1948, Young won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), beating out Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and Susan Hayward. She starred opposite Cary Grant in the sentimental favorite The Bishop’s Wife in 1947 and showed versatility in the western Rachel and the Stranger (1948) opposite William Holden and Robert Mitchum. Young closed out the 1940s by scoring a second Oscar® nomination for her work in the heartwarming drama Come to the Stable (1949).
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