Loretta Young — Actor (26)
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Bedtime Story (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bedtime Story
director: Alexander Hall actor: Fredric March / Loretta Young …
other title: La vida empieza hoy / J'épouse ma femme
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
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The Second Floor Mystery (1930) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Second Floor Mystery
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Grant Withers / Loretta Young …
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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Man's Castle (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Man's Castle
director: Frank Borzage actor: Spencer Tracy / Loretta Young …
other title: Vicino alle stelle / Ein Schloß in New York …
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
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Taxi! (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Taxi!
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: James Cagney / Loretta Young …
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Love Is News (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Love Is News
director: Tay Garnett actor: Tyrone Power / Loretta Young …
other title: L'amore è novità / L'Amour en première page …
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Call of the Wild (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Call of the Wild
director: William A. Wellman actor: Clark Gable / Loretta Young …
other title: Il richiamo della foresta / Goldfieber in Alaska …
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
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Paula (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Paula
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Loretta Young / Kent Smith …
other title: El secreto de Paula
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
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It Happens Every Thursday (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
It Happens Every Thursday
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Loretta Young / John Forsythe …
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
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The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Lady from Cheyenne
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Loretta Young / Robert Preston …
other title: Una mujer de carácter / Une femme à poigne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Mother Is a Freshman (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mother Is a Freshman
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Loretta Young / Van Johnson …
other title: L'adorabile intrusa / Mamá es mi rival …
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.