Born in San Diego, California, in 1914, Loretta Young was one of the world's most popular and enduring movie stars in the 1930s and 1940s. She made her debut in "Men Are Like That," a 1935 film directed by David Butler; she played the part of a young widow whose husband (played by Frank Morgan) dies in a train accident. The following year, Young played the role of a young girl who is accidentally involved in a murder in "The Farmer Takes a Wife." In 1938 she began her career as a dramatic actress by co-starring with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in "Gone with the Wind," a film that became one of the biggest box office successes up to that time. Young received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Scarlett O'Hara
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In 1939, Young starred with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in "Bringing Up Baby," a comedy directed by Howard Hawks. In 1941 Young starred with Spencer Tracy and Marie Dressler in "Night Must Fall," which was directed by Wallace Fox. The following year she co-starred with Spencer Tracy and Gene Tierney in "Captains Courageous," directed by Cecil B.
DeMille. In 1943 she starred with John Garfield and Charles Laughton in "The More the Merrier," directed by George Stevens. Over the years Young won five Academy Awards: Best Actress for "Gone With The Wind" (1939), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), and "The Heiress" (1957); Best Supporting Actress for "A Place In The Sun" (1951) and Best Actress for "Harriet Craig" (1950).
Her last film was "Canyon Passage" starring Rosalind Russell, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Red Buttons, Art Carney, Jack Elam, Suzanne Pleshette and Robert Sterling.