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Name: Loretta Young
Variant Name: Gretchen Michaela Youn
Birth Date: January 6, 1913
Death Date: August 12, 2000
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: actress

Encyclopedia of World Biography on Loretta Young

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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Loretta Young was named Gretchen by her parents when she was born on January 6, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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