Kay Walsh

Between films, she appeared regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych Theatres, directed by Basil Dean. Instead, she moved to television, where she hosted and starred in the well-received anthology series The Loretta Young Show. Walsh's favourite role was that of the old pub barmaid, Miss D. Coker, in the 1958 comedy The Horse's Mouth with Alec Guinness. In 1953 she made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. In 1950, she played a shrewd, scheming maid, Nellie Goode, who attempts to blackmail the character played by star Jane Wyman in Hitchcock's Stage Fright. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. He also directed her in her role of Nancy in Oliver Twist (1948). The same year she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season.

She appeared in two classic Noel Coward films, playing Freda Lewis in In Which We Serve (1942) and Queenie Gibbons in This Happy Breed (1944), which were directed by her husband, Lean. But although she was receiving fan and critical appreciation, it wasn't until 1947 that she received her first Oscar nomination -- and win -- for The Farmer's Daughter. They divorced in 1949. Young made several movies, working on as many as seven or eight a year. Walsh married Film director David Lean on November 23, 1940. The daughter herself, known as Judy Lewis (she took Young's second husband's last name), did not know the true story until she herself was an adult. She was born Kathleen Walsh in London, England, and started out in show business as a dancer in West End music halls. She made her film debut playing Mary Vivien in Get Your Man (1934). They told the whole world that the little girl had been adopted.

Kay Walsh (born August 27, 1914) is an English actress. She and her mother moved to Europe, returning with a daughter. In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, and became pregnant. (They had acted together in The Second Floor Mystery.) The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together, ironically called Too Young to Marry, came out. In 1930, Young, then only seventeen, ran off with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona.

The next year, she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. It was not until 1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing, in The Whip Woman. She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film, also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea. Her half-sister Georgiana (daughter of her mother and step-father George Belzer) eventually married actor Ricardo Montalban.

Even though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to live with Murray for two years. The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her. Her first role was at age 4 in the silent film The Primrose Ring. Born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane) appeared in child parts in movies, and young Gretchen did the same.

Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 — August 12, 2000) was an American actress.