Loretta Young
Loretta Young
Loretta Youngwas an American actress. Starting as a child actress, 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 moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 January 1913
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
It's so important to look relaxed.
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.