Loretta Young Quotes


Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.


Citations

Young, Loretta. The Things I Had to Learn. As told to Helen Ferguson, Bobbs-Merrill, 1961.

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Loretta Young
Loretta Young
  • Born: January 6, 1913
  • Died: August 12, 2000
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actress, Television Host

Loretta Young 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 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (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 was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986.