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Loretta Young: Series
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The successful format and style or The Loretta Young Show spurred other similar shows. Jane Wyman Theater (1955-58), The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959-61), and The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960-61) were prime-time network series that attempted to capitalize on the Young's success. Similar syndicated series included Ethel Barrymore Theater (1953), Crown Theater with Gloria Swanson (1954), and Ida Lupino Theater (1956).
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Beloved star Loretta Young followed the success of her long-running anthology series with this 1962-63 drama. As Christina Massey, a widowed mother of seven in suburban Connecticut, Young makes a living as a magazine writer and is wooed by her editor and, eventually, husband (James Philbrook). All 26 episodes of the series are collected in a four-disc set. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; biographies; interviews; trailers.
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Loretta always showed an elegant sort of beauty in her films, many of which were rather pedestrian fare. Yet she could act if called upon. Examples of her acting ability are her performances in The Farmer's Daughter (1947) or in Come to the Stable (1949). She retired from films in 1953 and began a second, equally successful career as hostess of "Letter to Loretta" (1953), a half-hour drama anthology series which ran on NBC from September 1953 to September 1961. In addition to hosting the series, she frequently starred in episodes. Although she is most remembered for her stunning gowns and swirling entrances, over the broadcast's eight-year run she ... showed again that she could act.
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Premiering under the title Letter to Loretta, the series was renamed The Loretta Young Show during the first season. Originally, the series was framed as the dramatization of viewers' letters. Each teleplay dramatized a different letter/story/message. Even after the letter device was dropped, Young still introduced and closed each story. At the beginning of each episode, she entered a living room set (supposedly her living room) through a door. Turning around to close the door and swirling her designer fashions as she walked up to the camera, Young was consciously putting on a mini-fashion show, and the spectacular entrance became Young's and the series's trademark.
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Few actors have enjoyed the professional longevity of the stunning Loretta Young (1913-2000) and even fewer in three media - motion pictures, radio theatre, and television. Her remarkable career, begun as a child extra during the Silent Era of motion pictures, extended through the Golden Age of Hollywood. She attained star status on film as well as on the radio, even though she had no theater or dramatic school instruction. Young ended her film career to become a pioneer of the Golden Age of Television. She was the first actor to win both an Academy Award and an Emmy. Except for absences for serious illness and the births of her children, she was continuously before the cameras from age 12 through the early 1960s, making more than 250 film performances and appearing on more than 300 television programs.
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Synopsis: "The Road," in which Loretta Young plays an unhappy woman whose life is forever changed by an enigmatic hitchhiker, served to launch the seventh successful season of the NBC anthology The Loretta Young Show. Other worthwhile episodes this season include "Mask of Evidence," one of Young's rareRead More
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