Cast: Loretta Young

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Loretta Young. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Stranger

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale

Synopsis Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is filthy. An earnest convert to Christianity, who once ran a...

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

Heroes for Sale

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Aline MacMahon · Loretta Young · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A war veteran (Richard Barthelmess) whose cowardly comrade (Gordon Westcott) has accepted all the glory for his heroism battles a morphine addiction, then starts life anew in Chicago, where he prospers as the co-owner of a labor-saving laundry machine and...

7.2

314 votes

7.2

314 votes

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Lon Chaney · Bernard Siegel · Loretta Young · Cissy Fitzgerald

Synopsis A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

7.2

127 votes

7.2

127 votes

Man's Castle

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Loretta Young · Marjorie Rambeau · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

7.0

332 votes

7.0

332 votes

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Employees' Entrance

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Warren William · Loretta Young · Wallace Ford · Alice White

Synopsis Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such...

7.0

48 votes

7.0

48 votes

Midnight Mary

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Loretta Young · Ricardo Cortez · Franchot Tone · Andy Devine

Synopsis A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In...

6.9

128 votes

6.9

128 votes

6.9

53 votes

The Bishop's Wife

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley

Synopsis A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs a number of miracles on his behalf, restoring hope to...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

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The Crusades

1935 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Loretta Young · Henry Wilcoxon · Ian Keith · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis The Third Crusade as it didn't happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get food for his men. Berengaria.is captured by Saladin, spurring Richard...

6.7

303 votes

6.7

303 votes

Call of the Wild

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clark Gable · Loretta Young · Jack Oakie · Reginald Owen

Synopsis Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields.

6.6

391 votes

6.6

391 votes

Love Is News

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Slim Summerville

Synopsis 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 she's engaged to him and that she's given him a million dollar dowry. Suddenly...

6.6

68 votes

6.6

68 votes

Cast John Landis · Jonathan Kuntz · Rudy Behlmer · Jerry Beck

Synopsis A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

6.6

111 votes

6.6

111 votes

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The Farmer's Daughter

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Loretta Young · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Charles Bickford

Synopsis Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she's forced to get a job...as a domestic...

6.5

201 votes

6.5

201 votes

Platinum Blonde

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Loretta Young · Robert Williams · Jean Harlow · Don Dillaway

Synopsis Reporter 'Stew' Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann's family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the couple eventually elope. Stew's roots as a street smart reporter...

6.5

350 votes

6.5

350 votes

6.4

113 votes

And Now Tomorrow

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Alan Ladd · Loretta Young · Susan Hayward · Barry Sullivan

Synopsis Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. While her sister is carrying on an affair with her...

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

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The House of Rothschild

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker · Sidney Lanfield

Cast George Arliss · Boris Karloff · Loretta Young · Robert Young

Synopsis The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially...

6.4

26 votes

6.4

26 votes

Paula

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Loretta Young · Alexander Knox · Tommy Rettig · Otto Hulett

Synopsis Distraught after her second miscarriage & learning definitively she could never have children Paula, while driving at night, accidentally injures a child. Confused and due to her commitment to attend a function that honors her husband she doesn't follow the...

6.4

48 votes

6.4

48 votes

Suez

1938 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.

6.3

225 votes

6.3

225 votes

The Hatchet Man

1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Dudley Digges · Leslie Fenton

Synopsis Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) is the most highly respected hatchet man of his Tong. Having sworn total allegiance, he cannot turn down an order, even one to kill his best friend Sun Yat Sen (J. Carrol Naish). His...

6.3

166 votes

6.3

166 votes

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