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Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (Hollywood Legends) (Hardcover) Book

Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (Hollywood Legends) (Hardcover) Book

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  • Technical Specs
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Number of Pages: 269 Pages
  • Version: Biography & Autobiography
Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and tremendously popular television series. But that was not the whole story.

Hollywood Madonna explores the full saga of Loretta Young's professional and personal life. She made her film debut at age four, became a star at fifteen, and many awards and accolades later, made her final television movie at age seventy-six. This biography withholds none of the details of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that powerful love produced. Bernard F. Dick places Young's affair in the proper context of the time and the choices available to women in 1935, especially a noted Catholic like Young, whose career would have been in ruins if the public knew of her tryst. With the birth of a daughter, who would have been branded a love child, Loretta Young reached the crossroads of disclosure and deception, choosing the latter path. That choice resulted in an illustrious career for her and a tortured childhood for her daughter.

  • Author: Bernard F. Dick
  • Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
  • ISBN: 9781617030796
 
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