Word: loretta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midnight Mary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another sample of Hollywood's current investigation of the beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent...
...accident; his charred corpse is mistaken for the fighter's. This gives the fighter a chance to change his name from Jimmy Dolan to Jack Daugherty. He wanders out West as a hobo until he comes to a happy little farm where a girl named Peggy (Loretta Young) and her old Scotch aunt (Aline MacMahon) are caring for a group of crippled orphans...
...elephant who wrecks the lion house. But the people are exciting too. There is a sentimental young attendant (Gene Raymond) who amuses himself when lonely by holding long talks with the chimpanzees and who burns as many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when her class is making its weekly visit to the animals. At nightfall the girl and the attendant, fleeing arrest for his fur filching, and a small boy (Wally Albright
...Loretta Young and Eric Linden, well suited to their rôles, are two of the youngest featured players in Hollywood. Linden, 22, made his cinema debut as an usher in Roxy's Theatre, Manhattan. A professor who had taught him English at Columbia saw him there, secured him a job with the Theatre Guild. He acted in Manhattan for one year, went abroad with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom...
...Loretta (real name: Gretchen) Young two years ago helped make a name for herself by eloping to Yuma, Ariz. with Cinemactor Grant Withers, despite protests of her mother who said that, at 17, she was not old enough for matrimony. She refused to try to have her marriage annulled, ended it by divorce after 17 months. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blane, are cinemactresses. Loretta Young got her first job when a director called up Polly Ann. Under five-year contract to First National, she has had increasingly important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet...