Going My Way: James Stewart, Loretta Young, Edward Arnold, Roger Prior The Beachcomber: Charles Laughton, Jean Hersholt, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Owen, Roger Prior Variety: Fred Allen, Robert Benchley, John Charles Thomas, Roger Prior Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 -- August 12, 2000) was 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. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. Young, a devout Roman Catholic,[1][2] worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career. Young was billed as Gretchen Young in the silent film Sirens of the Sea (1917). It was not until 1928 that she was first billed as "Loretta Young" in The Whip Woman. That same year she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The next year she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.[7] In 1930, Young, then 17, eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (appropriately titled Too Young to Marry) was released. During the Second World War ...