Loretta Young

Loretta Young was an American actress born on January 6, 1913. 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 Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1949. Young was billed as Gretchen Young in the silent film, Sirens of the Sea (1917). It was not until 1928 that she was first billed as "Loretta Young" in The Whip Woman. That same year she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The next year she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. She was signed to a contract by John McCormick, husband and manager of actress Colleen Moore, who saw the young girl's potential. The name "Loretta" was given to her by Colleen, who later would explain that it was the name of her favorite doll. In 1930, when she was 17, she eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers; they were married in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together, appropriately titled Too Young to Marry, was released. From September 1933 to June 1934, Young had a public affair with Spencer Tracy. She married producer Tom Lewis in 1940 and they divorced very bitterly in the mid-1960s. They had two sons, Peter Lewis (of the San Francisco rock band Moby Grape), and Christopher Lewis, a film director. She married fashion designer Jean Louis in 1993. Louis died in 1997. Young was godmother to Marlo Thomas (daughter of TV star Danny Thomas) Young and Clark Gable were the romantic leads of the 1935 film The Call of the Wild; filming occurred in early 1935. Young was 22 years old, while Gable was 34 and married (to Maria "Ria" Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham). During the filming, Gable impregnated Young. Those who knew of Gable's paternity assumed the pregnancy to be the result of an affair between the two; however, in 2015, Linda Lewis, Young's daughter-in-law (and Christopher Lewis's wife) stated publicly that Young told Lewis that Gable had raped her; and that, though the two had flirted on set, there had been no affair and no intimate contact save for that one incident. Young had previously always believed that it was a woman's job to fend off men's amorous advances, and had felt the fact that Gable had been able to force himself on her thus represented a moral failing on her part. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Her trademark was a dramatic entrance through a living room door in various high fashion evening gowns. Young's introductions and conclusions to her television shows were not rerun on television because she legally stipulated that they not be, as she did not want the dresses she wore in those segments to "date" the program. Her program ran in prime time on NBC for eight years, the longest-running prime-time network program hosted by a woman up to that time. Young died on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancer, at the Santa Monica, California, home of her half-sister, Georgiana Montalbán, wife of actor Ricardo Montalban. Her elder sisters had both died from cancer, as did her daughter, Judy Lewis, on November 25, 2011, at age 76.

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