Here are 10 things you should know about Walter Abel, born 126 years ago today. He enjoyed a long career on Broadway before also finding success in pictures, radio and television.
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10 Things You Should Know About Loretta Young
Here are 10 things you should know about Loretta Young, born 109 years ago today. She enjoyed a career of more than 70 years, retaining her glamour until the end.
10 Things You Should Know About Charles Bickford
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Ninety-nine years Young
Today marks Loretta Young’s 99th birthday.
She enjoyed a long, fruitful career that began in the era of silent movies (she appeared in two pictures in 1917, when she was all of four years old) and ended in 1994, when she was 81, and she certainly made many memorable movies, The Bishop’s Wife and The Farmer’s Daughter among them. But our favorites among her oeuvre include the noir-ish 1951 thriller Cause for Alarm! and, especially, the many pictures she made in the late 1920s and early ’30s.
Surely few women have ever appeared more beautiful on-screen than Young did in those pre-code days.
Here’s more on Young’s life and career.