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6 unusual facts about Loretta Young


Christopher Lewis

Christopher Lewis is one of two sons of Hollywood actress Loretta Young.

In later years, Christopher Lewis' actress mother entrusted her son with the rights to The Loretta Young Show.

Half Angel

Nora Gilpin (Loretta Young), a prim and proper nurse, is engaged to the stuffy Tim (John Ridgely).

Josephine Wayne

The couple married on June 24, 1933, in a garden ceremony at actress Loretta Young's home.

Mount Baker National Forest

The 1935 version of The Call of the Wild with Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie was filmed on location in Mount Baker National Forest because Twentieth Century Pictures felt it was remote enough to guarantee lack of interruption from skiers and other park visitors.

Robert Koch Woolf

Their clients included many of the leading entertainment personalities of the day including George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Ira Gershwin, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Fanny Brice, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Ray Milland and Loretta Young.


Fran Carlon

She went to Hollywood where she appeared in films with Douglas Montgomery, Loretta Young and the Ritz Brothers.

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Davis suggested her friend Olivia de Havilland to Aldrich as a replacement for Crawford after Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck turned the role down.

Karolyn Grimes

She also played "Debbie" in the 1947 Christmas film, The Bishop's Wife starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young.

Ladies in Love

Tyrone Power and Loretta Young made such an impact in this movie that they were quickly paired by the studio in several more films, including Love Is News (1937), Cafe Metropole (1937), Second Honeymoon (1937), and Suez (1938).

The Forward Pass

The Forward Pass, also known as To match tis doxis in Greece, is a 1929 black-and-white American football musical film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young.


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Judy Lewis

Her aunt, Georgiana (Loretta Young's half-sister), was married to actor Ricardo Montalbán for sixty-three years until her death in 2007.

The New Loretta Young Show

Though it followed the popular The Andy Griffith Show on CBS, The New Loretta Young Show, sponsored by Lever Brothers, proved unable to sustain the needed audience in competition at 10 p.m.

Wife, Husband and Friend

Myrna Loy was originally cast in the role eventually played by Loretta Young, with Lionel Atwill considered for the part of Hertz, Ed Brophy for the part of Jaffe, and Eily Malyon for the part of Mrs. Craig.