Loretta Young

 Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000)

Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 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 reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe in Christmas Eve in 1989. In 1935 Young had an affair with a then-married Clark Gable while on location for The Call of the Wild. During their affair Young became pregnant, but due to the moral codes placed on the film industry Young covered up her pregnancy in order to avoid damaging her career (as well as Gable's). When the pregnancy began to show, she went on a "vacation" to England, and several months later returned to California. Shortly before the birth, she gave an interview from her bed, covered in blankets, stating the reason for her long movie absence was because of a condition she'd had since childhood. Young soon gave birth to a daughter named Judy, whom she later "adopted", although the true story was a poorly kept secret. Loretta Young died on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancer. She was cremated, and her ashes were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City) with her mother, Gladys Belzer.