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Loretta Young Co-Stars

"I was as impatient about finding my dream man...

as I was about everything else I wanted. ”

Loretta Young starred opposite a plethora of Hollywood's biggest names of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Charles Boyer, Robert Taylor, Joseph Cotten, and Robert Young.

Early in her career, Loretta Young was frequently paired with Tyrone Power and three most noted films which featured the duo, are: Cafe Metropole (1937), a sophisticated comedy with Adolphe Menjou in which Tyrone Power poses as a Russian prince; Second Honeymoon (1937) wherein Power and Young play a divorced couple still in love with each other; and Love Is News (1937) in which Power plays a crafty newspaperman writing a series of scathing articles about a spoiled rich girl.

Young's other on screen co-stars include: Cary Grant in “Born to be Bad” (1934), Clark Gable in “Call of the Wild” (1935) and Orson Welles in “The Stranger” (1946), her first official recognition for film came in 1947 when she won a Best Actress Oscar (despite stiff opposition) starring opposite Joseph Cotton as the Swedish country girl who faces the perils of city-life in “The Farmer’s Daughter”. This boosted her star power, and went on to again appear alongside Cary Grant and David Niven in “The Bishop’s Wife” (1948). In 1949, she was Oscar-nominated for a second time for her role as a nun in 1949’s “Come to the Stable.”

Real Life Co-Stars

Grant Withers

Loretta Young's first husband Grant Withers appeared in over 200 films. He had worked as a salesman and newspaper reporter before breaking into movies near the end of the silent era. Tall and tough, his starring roles in major pictures soon gave way to supporting parts, mainly as a villain, in B movies and serials. His elopement to Yuma, Arizona, in 1930 with a 17-year-old Loretta Young was widely reported. From 1940 on, he took numerous supporting roles, working until his suicide in 1959.

Tom Lewis

Loretta Young's second marraige was to Thomas H. A. Lewis who was a film and broadcasting producer and writer who founded the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II. He was a writer, producer and executive at Young & Rubicam before the war. His contacts there with the entertainment industry helped him establish the global radio network for servicemen and to get Hollywood and Broadway celebrities on the air. After the war, in which he served as an Army colonel, he organize Lewislor where he produced ''The Loretta Young Show'' on television.

Jean Louis

One of a handful of preeminent costume designers who defined Hollywood glamour, Jean Louis was the Chief Designer at Columbia Pictures. His simple, sensuous designs helped to define three of the shapeliest actresses of the studio era, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and Kim Novak. His most noted design was the slit strapless gown worn by Hayworth in GILDA. One of his design techniques was covering nude colored net with crystal beads. He did this first for Marlene Dietrich, then for Marilyn Monroe -- who sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in it. He also designed the gowns worn by Loretta Young during her swirling entrances in her "Loretta Young Show" on TV during the 1950s and 60s. (In 1993, they would marry and remain together until his death in 1997.)

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