She was a life long Republican and a bigger TV star than Movie Star. Also a big time Catholic she walked the walk and had a kid when she could have had an abortion since it was out of wedlock.
She looks really young in this photo but lived to a ripe old age.
Whose that girl/
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Loretta Young!
Those eyes.
She had the strangest eyebrows later on, though. Even stranger than Joan Crawford's.
Stranger than Trooper's?
She was still remembered in Ojai when I lived there.
People called her "the steel butterfly."
She apparently had problems with Vanity and Wrath.
Combine those with Lust and Greed, and you've pretty much defined the movie business
Gluttony is seldom a problem.
Stranger than Trooper's?
That's a tough one.
Trooper's eyebrows are formidable-- dare I say, Jack Nicholsonesque.
Gluttony is seldom a problem.
Unless you count alcoholism & drug abuse under gluttony.
Dang, those Brooklyn Dodgers are having a great season this year.
Tim--
Aquinas' definitions of gluttony would've included anorexia and bulimia, so I think Hollywood's got that covered.
An awesome beauty. I choose awesome deliberately because there's a level of beauty that, though not an achievement on the part of the person who has it, is so rare that it gives that person fundamental power. I can think of only one other woman in film history with that breath stopping beauty: the star of Laura, Gene Tierney.
She had the "good" side of her face, and would hardly be seen, much less photographed, presenting any other.
And that was just for starters. Like with Wyatt Earp, I've talked with people who knew her. I was much older, however, and accordingly heard more and made better sense of it.
But, yes, she looked pretty damn good on screen.
Now, having trashed Wyatt Earp, let's canonize Loretta Young. Was she assumed bodily into Heaven (showing, of course, her good side to St. Peter)?
(The Wyatt Earp discussion happened on TOOP, but I assume most here saw it.)
I don't think we really trashed Wyatt Earp. I mean we are just not putting him a pedestal that he does not belong on based on the truth. Nothing wrong with that.
Loretta Young was a very interesting character.
She got knocked up by Clark Gable while she was in between marriages and had the baby and put it in an orphanage. Then she made a big show of adopting what was really her own daughter. All of this came out in a biography of hers a few years ago.
She was a good person who tried to be a good Catholic but like all of us she made mistakes. Talking about them is not trashing her. It is just the truth.
Barbra Streisand only gets photographed from one side, also.
I guess she thinks that her face has a good side.
But her true ugliness is that she is a communist.
But [Bab's] true ugliness is that she is a communist.
And to think that she traded Mad Magazines with Bobby Fischer in high school. The world is a wacky place.
I have no idea.
We know Lem...we know.
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