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- After a Hollywood career of more than 20 years, Young silenced many critics who regarded her as little more than a bland beauty of modest talent when she won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer’s Daughter. She received a second nomination for best actress in 1949 for her role as a nun in Come to the Stable.
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Loretta Young. Joseph Cotten. Ethel Barrymore. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 3.4K users. 40 User reviews. 17 Critic reviews. Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total.
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The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Loretta Young and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Charles Bickford. Young's win was considered an upset; everyone had expected Rosalind Russell to win for her Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra.
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In 1947, she won an Academy Award for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter, in which she played a Swedish maid who ends up being elected to Congress. Also notable were her later performances in Rachel and the Stranger (1948), Come to the Stable (1949), for which she received an Oscar nomination, and Cause for Alarm (1951).
When Loretta Young beat out Rosalind Russell in the Academy Award sweepstakes of 1947 it was considered one of the great upsets in the history of Oscar. Russell had gotten a lot of acclaim for her dramatic breakthrough performance in Mourning Becomes Electra which was RKO's prestige picture of the year. The O'Neill drama flopped at the box office.
Jan 31, 2013 · Loretta Young as Katrin "Katie" Holstrom in The Farmer's Daughter It’s the biggest break of her life! She quickly warms up the gruff Mr. Clancy (Charles Bickford) by virtue of her pure wonder at the big house in which they serve.
Biography. Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. 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 ...
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). She also starred in films such as Born to Be Bad (1934), Call of the Wild (1935), The Crusades (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), The Stranger (1946), The ...
