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Oscar-winning actress Loretta Young was one of the first Hollywood stars to move successfully from movies to television. She made the transition in 1953 with 'Letter to Loretta' (soon after retitled 'The Loretta Young Show'), an anthology drama series. This photograph, by Edward Steichen, appeared in the July 1933 Vanity Fair.
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These days Loretta Young is most famous for the dramatic entrances she made in elegant gowns for each episode of her long-running television program The Loretta Young Show. However, by the time she turned to television, Young had been acting in movies for decades. She had risen from childhood bit parts in silent movies to starring roles in glossy forties vehicles.
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Loretta Young has moved to the desert as Mrs. Jean Louis, for Loretta has married a fellow Hollywood legend, the remarkable Louis, known as dressmaker to the stars. ("Harry Cohn [the fabled tyrant of Columbia Pictures] thought more of Jean than he did of Rita Hayworth!," Loretta says, and no wonder - Louis did the clothes for Gilda along with most of Kim Novak's and Judy Holliday's movies, winning the Oscar for The Solid Gold Cadillac.)
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Born Gretchen Young, her family moved to Hollywood and she began appearing (at age four) as a child extra in movies, as did her sisters (one of whom later became known as actress Sally Blane). At 14, she got a small supporting role in Naughty but Nice (1927), which led to a screen contract. She moved quickly from teenager to ingénue to leading lady roles, appearing in many films and successfully making the transition to the sound era. By the mid-'30s, she was an established star, usually cast in decorative roles in routine programmers. For her work in The Farmer's Daughter (1947) she won the Best Actress Oscar, and was nominated again for Come to the Stable (1949). After a consistently busy screen career of 25 years, she retired from films in 1953 to host the TV series The Loretta Young Show, a weekly half-hour teleplay; she appeared in about half of the show's episodes, winning three Emmy Awards.
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Born Gretchen Young, her family moved to Hollywood and she began appearing (at age four) as a child extra in movies, as did her sisters (one of whom later became known as actress "Sally Blane"). At 14, she got a small supporting role in Naughty but Nice (1927), which led to a screen contract. She moved quickly from teenager to ingénue to leading lady roles, appearing in many films and successfully making the transition to the sound era. By the mid-'30s, she was an established star, usually cast in decorative roles in routine programmers. For her work in "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947) she won the Best Actress Oscar, and was nominated again for "Come to the Stable" (1949).
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On movie sets, Young gained attention by doing things a little differently. If the children were supposed to sit, she stood. If they were supposed to move left, she moved right. This attention garnered her juvenile bit parts when she was 11, a studio contract when she was 12, and starring adult roles when she was 14. Young got her first adult part after asking a telephone caller if she could substitute for her sister Polly, who was unavailable, at a casting call. Colleen Moore, the star of Naughty But Nice, in which Young appeared, noticed her uniqueness and talked the studio into giving her a screen test.
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