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This auction is for one Celebrity Cuts Authentic Cut Autograph card of actress - Loretta Young, from 2008 Donruss Celebrity Cuts Trading Cards. The signature is in Blue ink, numbered #HI-LY on the back with serial number #1/1, in NRMT-MINT condition.
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress.
She was billed as "Gretchen Young" in the 1917 film, Sirens of the Sea. It wasn't 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. 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 (ironically titled Too Young to Marry) was released.
During the Second World War, Young made "Ladies Courageous" (1944; reissued as "Fury in the Sky"), the fictionalized story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. It depicted a unit of female pilots during WW2 who primarily flew bombers from the factories to their final destinations.
Young made as many as seven or eight movies a year and won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter. The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season and was later remade as The Preacher's Wife with Whitney Houston. In 1949, Young received another Academy Award nomination (for Come to the Stable) and in 1953 appeared in her last film, It Happens Every Thursday.
Moving to television, she hosted and starred in the well-received half hour anthology series The Loretta Young Show. The program, which earned her three Emmys, ran in prime time on NBC for eight years, the longest-running prime time network program ever hosted by a woman up to that time.
Young died on August 12, 2000 from ovarian cancer. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — one for motion pictures, at 6104 Hollywood Blvd, and another for television, at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.
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