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Acting

Loretta Young

Career: Active from 1917 to 1989, with a break from 1963 to 1985, busiest in 1933 with 9 main titles.

Leading roles: 91
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: The Farmer's Daughter
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Loretta Young Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.0, average 2.5
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Scare
1.2, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 4
Witty Dialogue 4
Classic Hollywood 4
Character-Driven 4
Social Commentary 3
Golden Age Hollywood 3
Class Conflict 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Classic Hollywood Romance 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Classic Romantic Comedy 2
1930s Romance 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

108

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 67

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

67

as Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

1980s

2 titles · average score 69

Lady in a Corner

as Grace Guthrie

Christmas Eve

69

as Amanda Kingsley

1960s

2 titles

The New Loretta Young Show

TV show · as Christine Massey

The Spark

as Lucy Masters

1950s

7 titles · average score 62

It Happens Every Thursday

63

as Jane MacAvoy

Letter to Loretta

70

TV show · as Taka / Yuki Arakawa

Paula

74

as Paula Rogers

Because of You

64

as Christine Carroll Kimberly

Half Angel

46

as Nora Gilpin

Cause for Alarm!

51

as Ellen Jones

Key to the City

63

as Clarissa Standish

1940s

18 titles · average score 67

Come to the Stable

71

as Sister Margaret

The Accused

65

as Dr. Wilma Tuttle

Mother Is a Freshman

76

as Abigail Fortitude Abbott

Rachel and the Stranger

66

as Rachel

The Bishop's Wife

76

as Julia Brougham

The Farmer's Daughter

87

as Katrin Holstrom

The Stranger

80

as Mary Longstreet

Along Came Jones

49

as Cherry de Longpre

Ladies Courageous

as Roberta Harper

China

61

as Carolyn Grant

A Night to Remember

66

as Nancy Troy

The Doctor Takes a Wife

62

as June Cameron

1930s

59 titles · average score 60

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

62

as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Suez

58

as Countess Eugenie de Montijo

Ladies in Love

65

as Susie Schmidt

Call of the Wild

63

as Claire Blake

The Crusades

79

as Berengaria, Princess of Navarre

The House of Rothschild

79

as Julie Rothschild

Heroes for Sale

72

as Ruth Loring

Midnight Mary

69

as Mary

Employees' Entrance

85

as Madeleine Walters West

Platinum Blonde

72

as Gallagher

Big Business Girl

55

as Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

The Devil to Pay!

52

as Dorothy Hope

1920s

16 titles · average score 64

The Girl in the Glass Cage

as Gladys Cosgrove

The Forward Pass

as Patricia Carlyle

Fast Life

as Patricia Mason Stratton

The Squall

45

as Irma

The Careless Age

as Muriel

Seven Footprints to Satan

64

as One of Satan's Victims

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

80

as Simonetta

Scarlet Seas

as Margaret Barbour

The Magnificent Flirt

as Denise Laverne

The Whip Woman

as The Girl

The Head Man

as Carol Watts

The Sheik

68

as Arab Child (uncredited)

1910s

3 titles

The Only Way

as Child on Operating Table

The Primrose Ring

as Fairy (uncredited)

Sirens of the Sea

as Child (as Gretchen Young)