Loretta Young

and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd. His last work was mainly in television, reprising his Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones roles. Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. He later starred in a TV drama series, Barnaby Jones, beginning in 1973. She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of 87 and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Ebsen also starred in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her trademark at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway, dressed in the latest of high fashion evening gowns. It was still earning good ratings when it was canceled by CBS because advertisers shunned a series that attracted a rural audience.

Instead, she moved to television, where she hosted and starred in the well-received anthology series The Loretta Young Show. Although scorned by critics, the show was a massive hit, attracting as many as 60 million viewers on CBS between 1962 and 1971. In 1953 she made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. The show depicted a stereotypical hillbilly family from the Ozarks getting rich on oil and moving to a stereotypical rich neighborhood in Beverly Hills. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. Ebsen's work in television started as the sidekick to Fess Parker in the Davy Crockett series, but he became famous in 1962 when he starred as Jed Clampett in the television show The Beverly Hillbillies. The same year she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season. From 1941 to 1946 he served as a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard.

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. Ebsen's career may have been damaged by losing the Wizard of Oz part; he appeared only in minor Westerns for many years after this incident. Young made several movies, working on as many as seven or eight a year. Haley didn't run the same risk because the makeup was changed in the meantime from a dust to a paste. 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. While Ebsen was in the hospital for two weeks, recovering from a near-fatal allergic reaction to the dust, he was silently replaced by Jack Haley. They told the whole world that the little girl had been adopted. He was rushed to the hospital nine days after filming began, when his lungs seized after a week of inhaling aluminum dust from the dangerously experimental "tin" makeup.

She and her mother moved to Europe, returning with a daughter. He recorded all his songs, went through all the rehearsals, and started filming with the rest of the cast. In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, and became pregnant. Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man in the 1938 classic The Wizard of Oz. (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. He began his career as a dancer, making his film debut in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 and starring in various screen musicals including 1938's My Lucky Star. In 1930, Young, then only seventeen, ran off with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona. Buddy Ebsen (Christian Rudolph Ebsen) (April 2, 1908 - July 7, 2003) was an American actor best remembered for his role in the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

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.