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Š DR - Loretta Young /Bio-Filmo

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Š DR - Loretta Young /Bio-Filmo

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Loretta Young est une actrice américaine née le 6 janvier 1913 à Salt Lake City, Utah, États-Unis, et décédée le 12 août 2000.

Elle est la sœur des actrices Polly Ann Young et Sally Blane.

Biographie

Enfance

Loretta est née Gretchen Young à Salt Lake City dans l'Utah. À sa confirmation, elle prendra le nom de Michaela. Elle et sa famille déménagent vers Hollywood alors qu'elle n'a que trois ans. Loretta et ses deux sœurs, Polly Ann Young et Elizabeth Jane Young (nom de scène Sally Blane) travaillent vite comme actrices dont (?)elle est la plus remarquée. Elle joue son premier rôle à 3 ans dans The Primrose Ring. La star du film, Mae Murray, apprécia tellement la petite Gretchen qu'elle voulut l'adopter.

Malgré le refus de sa mère, la jeune fille fut autorisée à vivre deux ans avec la star. Sa demi-sœur Georgiana (fille de sa mère et de son beau-père George Belzer) se mariera avec l'acteur Ricardo Montalbán. Elle passe ses années de lycée à la Ramona Convent Secondary School.

Vie privée - Sa liaison avec Clark Gable

En 1935, Loretta a une liaison avec Clark Gable, alors un homme marié, sur le tournage de L'Appel de la forêt. L'actrice tombe alors enceinte. Du fait des codes moraux de l'industrie du cinéma et pour éviter les dommages dus au scandale sur leurs deux carrières, les studios passent l'information sous silence. Au retour de longues « vacances » (pendant lesquelles elle accouche de sa fille), Loretta annonce son adoption d'une petite fille. L'enfant grandit sous le nom de Judy Lewis, après avoir pris le nom du deuxième mari de sa mère, le producteur Tom Lewis.

D'après son autobiographie Uncommon Knowledge, on se moqua de Judy à cause de ses oreilles héritées de son père, Clark Gable. Dans le documentaire Girl 27, elle affirme que sa mère lui faisait porter un bonnet et dit avoir subi une opération à l'âge de 7 ans pour recoller ses grandes oreilles.Elle eut à subir les rumeurs dont de cruelles remarques de camarades à l'école, tout en sachant secrètement que Clark Gable était son père biologique.

Loretta Young encouragea l'acteur à leur rendre visite de temps à autre, pour parler avec Judy, en simple ami de la famille.S'il faut en croire Nigel Cawthorne, Loretta Young fut un temps la rivale de Joan Crawford auprès de Gable, Spencer Tracy (ce dernier aurait quitté sa femme pour Loretta) et Franchot Tone.

Carrière

Figurant enfant dans Ris donc paillasse avec Lon Chaney et dans Le Cheik avec en vedette Rudolph Valentino, selon Gérard Legrand elle débute véritablement à 14 ans « dans un rôle travesti qu'elle souffle à l'une de ses trois sœurs aînées » (dans Naughty but nice/Pas sage mais mignonne).Rivale de la blonde Jean Harlow dans La Blonde platine de Frank Capra (1931), sa beauté brune et lisse la dispose aux compositions exotiques, comme dans L'Honorable Monsieur Wong réalisé par William A. Wellman ; celui-ci la retrouvera notamment pour Héros à vendre et L'Appel de la forêt avec Clark Gable. La jeune actrice travaille aussi à plusieurs reprises pour William Dieterle, mais c'est avec Frank Borzage qu'elle trouve un de ses meilleurs rôles dans Ceux de la zone (1933) avec Spencer Tracy. Un autre de ses films mythiques, Zoo in Budapest, est tourné la même année par Rowland V. Lee.

La star désormais s'illustre dans des productions de prestige, telles que Les Croisades de Cecil B. DeMille, Ramona d'Henry King, Suez d'Allan Dwan. Elle passe de l'aventure à la comédie (L'Amour en première page de Tay Garnett en 1937 par exemple), collectionnant les partenaires les plus brillants : Ronald Colman, Charles Boyer, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, David Niven, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper...

En 1936 Quatre femmes à la recherche du bonheur lui donne pour rivales Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett et Simone Simon, et dans Suez elle est opposée à Annabella - toutes ces actrices étant sous contrat à la Fox dans les années 30. Cawthorne la place parmi les prétendantes les plus acharnées au rôle de Scarlett O'Hara dans Autant en emporte le vent, avec Paulette Goddard, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis et Susan Hayward entre autres.

Frank Lloyd, Busby Berkeley, Mervyn LeRoy jalonnent sa carrière, et elle figure aussi dans Quatre hommes et une prière de John Ford et Le Criminel d'Orson Welles (1946). Oscarisée pour Ma femme est un grand homme (quel titre à la con !!) d'H. C. Potter (1947), malgré d'indéniables succès notamment dans le registre fantaisiste (comédies de Walter Lang, Alexander Hall, George Sidney), Loretta Young se retire des grands écrans en 1953.

Filmographie /Actrice

1917 : The Primrose Ring de Robert Z. Leonard : Une fée (non créditée)

1917 : Sirens of the Sea de Allen Holubar : Une enfant

1919 : The Only Way : Une enfant

1919 : White and Unmarried de Tom Forman : Une enfant (non créditée)

1921 : Le Cheik de George Melford : Une enfant (non créditée)

1927 : Pas sage mais mignonne (Naughty But Nice) de Millard Webb : non créditée

1927 : Her Wild Oat de Marshall Neilan : non créditée

1928 : The Whip Woman de Joseph C. Boyle : Une fille

1928 : Ris donc paillasse (Laugh, Clown, Laugh) de Herbert Brenon : Simonetta

1928 : Femme (The Magnificent Flirt) de Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast : Denise Laverne

1928 : The Head Man de Edward F. Cline : Carol Watts

1928 : La Danseuse captive (Scarlet Seas) de John Francis Dillon : Margaret Barbour

1929 : Tempête (The Squall) de Alexander Korda : Irma

1929 : La Fille dans la cage de verre de Ralph Dawson : Gladys Cosgrove

1929 : Fast Life de John Francis Dillon : Patricia Mason Stratton

1929 : The Careless Age de John Griffith Wray : Muriel

1929 : The Forward Pass de Edward F. Cline : Patricia Carlyle

1929 : The Show of Shows de John G. Adolfi

1930 : Loose Ankles de Ted Wilde : Ann Harper Berry

1930 : The Man from Blankley's de Alfred E. Green : Margery Seaton

1930 : The Second Floor Mystery de Roy Del Ruth : Marion Ferguson

1930 : Road to Paradise de William Beaudine : Mary Brennan / Margaret Waring

1930 : War Nurse de Edgar Selwyn : Une nurse (non créditée)

1930 : Kismet de John Francis Dillon : Marsinah

1930 : Vingt et un ans (The Truth About Youth) de William A. Seiter : Phyllis Ericson

1930 : The Devil to Pay! de George Fitzmaurice : Dorothy Hope

1931 : Beau Ideal de Herbert Brenon : Isobel Brandon

1931 : The Right of Way de Frank Lloyd : Rosalie Evantural

1931 : Three Girls Lost de Sidney Lanfield : Norene McMann

1931 : Les Bijoux volés (The Slippery Pearls) de William C. McGann : Caméo

1931 : Too Young to Marry de Mervyn LeRoy : Elaine Bumpstead

1931 : Big Business Girl de William A. Seiter : Claire 'Mac' McIntyre

1931 : I Like Your Nerve de William C. McGann : Diane Forsythe

1931 : La Blonde platine (Platinum Blonde) de Frank Capra : Gallagher

1931 : The Ruling Voice de Rowland V. Lee : Gloria Bannister

1932 : Taxi! de Roy Del Ruth : Sue Riley Nolan

1932 : L'Honorable Monsieur Wong (The Hatchet Man) de William A. Wellman : Sun Toya San

1932 : Play-Girl de Ray Enright : Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis

1932 : Week-end Marriage de Thornton Freeland : Lola Davis Hayes

1932 : La vie commence (Life Begins) de James Flood et Elliott Nugent : Grace Sutton

1932 : They Call It Sin de Thornton Freeland : Marion Cullen

1933 : Entrée des employés de Roy Del Ruth : Madeleine Walters West

1933 : Grand Slam de William Dieterle : Marcia Stanislavsky

1933 : Révolte au zoo (Zoo in Budapest) de Rowland V. Lee : Eve

1933 : La Vie de Jimmy Dolan (The Life of Jimmy Dolan) d'Archie Mayo : Peggy

1933 : Héros à vendre (Heroes for sale) de William A. Wellman : Ruth

1933 : Rose de minuit (Midnight Mary) de William A. Wellman : Mary Martin

1933 : She Had to Say Yes de George Amy et Busby Berkeley : Florence 'Flo' Denny

1933 : The Devil's in Love de William Dieterle : Margot Lesesne

1933 : Ceux de la zone (A man's castle) de Frank Borzage : Trina

1934 : La Maison des Rothschild (The House of Rothschild) d'Alfred Werker : Julie Rothschild

1934 : Born to Be Bad de Lowell Sherman : Letty Strong

1934 : Le Retour de Bulldog Drummond de Roy Del Ruth : Lola Field

1934 : Caravane (Caravan) de Erik Charell : Comtesse Wilma

1934 : La Parade blanche (The White Parade) d'Irving Cummings : June Arden

1935 : Clive of India de Richard Boleslawski : Margaret Maskelyne Clive

1935 : Shanghai de James Flood : Barbara Howard

1935 : L'Appel de la forêt (The Call of the wild) de William A. Wellman : Claire Blake

1935 : Les Croisades (The Crusades) de Cecil B. DeMille : Bérangère, princesse de Navarre

1936 : The Unguarded Hour de Sam Wood : Lady Helen Dudley Dearden

1936 : Une certaine jeune fille (Private Number) de Roy Del Ruth : Ellen Neal

1936 : Ramona d'Henry King : Ramona

1936 : Quatre femmes à la recherche du bonheur d'Edward H. Griffith : Susie Schmidt

1937 : L'Amour en première page (Love Is News) de Tay Garnett : Toni Gateson

1937 : Café métropole (Café Metropole) d'Edward H. Griffith : Laura Ridgeway

1937 : Aventures en Espagne (Love Under Fire) de George Marshall : Myra Cooper

1937 : Jeux de dames (Wife, Doctor and Nurse) de Walter Lang : Ina Heath Lewis

1937 : J'ai deux maris (Second honeymoon) de Walter Lang : Vicky

1938 : Quatre hommes et une prière de John Ford : Lynn Cherrington

1938 : Trois souris aveugles (Three Blind Mice) de William A. Seiter : Pamela Charters

1938 : Suez d'Allan Dwan : Eugénie de Montijo

1938 : Kentucky de David Butler : Sally Goodwin

1939 : Échec à la dame (Wife, Husband and Friend) de Gregory Ratoff : Doris Borland

1939 : Et la parole fut (The Story of A.Graham Bell) de Irving Cummings : Mme Mabel Bell

1939 : Divorcé malgré lui (Eternally Yours) de Tay Garnett : Anita

1940 : Le docteur se marie (The Doctor Takes a Wife) de Alexander Hall : June Cameron

1940 : Et l’amour vint (He Stayed for Breakfast) d'Alexander Hall : Marianna Duval

1941 : Une femme à poigne (The Lady from Cheyenne) de Frank Lloyd : Annie Morgan

1941 : La Rose blanche (The Men in Her Life) de Gregory Ratoff : Lina Varsavina

1941 : J'épouse ma femme (Bedtime Story) de Alexander Hall : Jane Drake

1943 : Une nuit inoubliable (A Night to Remember) de Richard Wallace : Nancy Troy

1943 : Le Défilé de la mort (China) de John Farrow : Carolyn Grant

1944 : Escadrille de femmes (Ladies Courageous) de John Rawlins : Roberta Harper

1944 : Le bonheur est pour demain (And Now Tomorrow) de Irving Pichel : Emily Blair

1945 : Le Grand Bill (Along Came Jones) de Stuart Heisler : Cherry de Longpre

1946 : Le Criminel (The Strangers) d'Orson Welles : Mary Longstreet

1947 : Mariage parfait (The Perfect Marriage) de Lewis Allen : Maggie Williams

1947 : The Farmer's Daughter d'H. C. Potter : Katrin Holstrom

1947 : Honni soit qui mal y pense (The Bishop's Wife) d'Henry Koster : Julia Brougham

1948 : Rachel and the Stranger de Norman Foster : Rachel Harvey

1949 : Les Mirages de la peur (The Accused) de William Dieterle : Dr. Wilma Tuttle

1949 : Maman est étudiante de Lloyd Bacon : Abigail Fortitude Abbott

1949 : Les Sœurs casse-cou (Come to the Stable) d'Henry Koster : Sœur Margaret

1950 : La Clé sous la porte (Key to the City) de George Sidney : Clarissa Standish

1951 : Jour de terreur (Cause for Alarm!) de Tay Garnett : Ellen Jones

1951 : Madame sort à minuit (Half Angel) de Richard Sale : Nora Gilpin

1952 : Paula, de Rudolph Maté : Paula Rogers

1952 : Sans ton amour (Because of You) de Joseph Pevney : Christine Carroll Kimberly

1953 : It Happens Every Thursday de Joseph Pevney : Jane MacAvoy

1953 : Letter to Loretta (série TV/1953-1961 : 165 épisodes)

1979 : Has Anybody Here Seen Canada A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 -

Documentaire TV - Non créditée : elle-même (au dîner des Oscars, 1942)

1986 : La Colombe de Noël (Christmas Eve) de Stuart Cooper (TV) : Amanda Kingsley

1987 : Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood - Documentaire TV : elle-même

1989 : Lady in the Corner de Peter Levin (TV) : Grace Guthrie

1995 : First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies - Documentaire TV : elle-même

Distinctions

Récompenses

1929 : WAMPAS Baby Stars

1948 : Oscar de la meilleure actrice pour Ma femme est un grand homme

Nomination

1950 : Nomination Meilleure actrice pour Les Sœurs casse-cou

Š DR - RACHEL & L'ETRANGER de William Foster (1948) Fin

23/07/2013 05:45 par tellurikwaves

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23/07/2013 05:45 par tellurikwaves

A musical western comedy family drama - you don't see many of those!

Author: Ursula 2.7T from my sofa

6 September 2005

Lightweight, predictable fare that's nothing to write home about, but a really enjoyable movie nonetheless that I gladly watch anytime it's on TCM.William Holden plays a recent widower who realizes his son needs a mother. He goes into town and "buys" a wife (Loretta Young), whom he treats with respect (he's a gentleman) but also quite aloofly (he's still deeply in love with his dearly departed wife and is not ready to move on). Predictably, the boy resents the presence of this new woman and isn't ready for her or anyone else to take his mother's place. (You just know the boy and Holden are gonna come around by the end of the flick and the three of them are gonna be one big happy family)

Add in charming, wandering, singing-and-guitar-playing rogue Robert Mitchum and you've got quite an enjoyable story. Mitchum appreciates Young and strikes up a friendship with her, which piques Holden's curiosity over this woman he's previously overlooked.Loretta Young is supposedly lovely in this film -- if you like her, that is. Personally, she's never caught my fancy and I've never understood her appeal, though I never let her presence in a movie keep me from watching it; that would be a shame and I'd miss some good flicks if I did! (OK, so ding this review if you're a LY fan and I dissed your lady, sorry! :)

William Holden is ... well, um, drool, pant, sigh ... absolutely gorgeous in this movie. He is reason alone to watch it! Robert Mitchum isn't too bad either, and has a surprisingly nice singing voice (yes that's actually him doing all that singing).

Récompenses/Nominations
1949 Nominated WGA Award (ScreenWriters Guild of America, USA):Best Written American WesternWaldo Salt

Trivia

-Loretta Young was famous for placing a "swear jar" on the sets of all of her films, charging anyone in the cast or crew who used foul language 25 cents for doing so, then giving the funds to one of her favorite charities. While making this film with her, Robert Mitchum reputedly held his tongue about his pious co-star until shooting was completed. As he exited the set on the final day of production, Mitchum smiled, dropped a $20 bill into the jar, and said, "This should just about cover everything I've been wanting to say to Loretta."

-This was one of RKO's biggest hits of 1948, earning $395,000.00

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23/07/2013 05:32 par tellurikwaves

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23/07/2013 05:32 par tellurikwaves

Frontier Menage a Trois

Author: GManfred from Ramsey, NJ

7 February 2013

Actually the film is nothing as racy as my title would suggest. It is a story of a frontiersman recently widowed, and left with a 9 year old boy. No wife, no mother, no one to do the laundry or cook dinner (this was the frontier, remember). What to do? Well, you could go buy an indentured servant. But don't let your best friend and neighbor find out.

There is a great deal of purity and scruples to be found in "Rachel And The Stranger", but not a lot you can get your teeth into. No nuance here, just a straightforward story propelled by the star power of its principals.Holden the farmer first marries the servant(Loretta Young who must be the best-looking indentured servant ever to milk a cow )to keep up appearances. Then they sleep in separate rooms. Mitchum is the neighbor/vagabond who takes a keen interest in Holden, and especially his new servant.

There are no emotional highs or lows or tense moments to be found, and the three stars must have had an easy payday with this one. By the same token, it is a very likable, crowd-pleasing family picture which might have gone over even better in color. Holden was just two years away from "Sunset Boulevard", Mitchum fresh from "Out Of The Past", one of Hollywood's best noirs, and Loretta Young had recently won an Oscar for "The Farmer's Daughter" - three stars in their prime.

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23/07/2013 05:21 par tellurikwaves

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23/07/2013 05:21 par tellurikwaves

The previous review was off the mark...this is a superb movie

Author: barrymn1 from United States

17 April 2006

This excellent film is one of William Holden's best earlier roles...not all that far from the major stardom that was to come.This was also a nice change of pace for Robert Mitchum. It was another sturdy performance by Loretta Young.I find it entertaining,honest and well made.I do wish Warner Home video would see fit to release it on DVD. It's a good 'family' movie, and I believe it would be popular.Considering it was one of RKO's biggest hits in the late 1940's, I guess the public back then saw it the same way I see it....as a terrific film.

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23/07/2013 05:18 par tellurikwaves

The viewer and the strange one.

Author: dbdumonteil

24 November 2001

The IMDb recommends "the sound of music" if you like this one,and it is a very smart choice.While Young ,Mitchum and the boy are strumming the guitar and the spinet,in front of a grumpy Holden,I can't help thinking of Maria/Andrews ,her baron and brats singing a little song in front of the bored rigid baroness Parker(She mumbles something like:"I wish I could have brought my harmonica! ").Songs play a prominent part in this movie:Mitchum's tunes depict the life of the people he's watching.

Arguably a low-budget movie,"Rachel and the stranger" is nevertheless more than a poor man's "sound of music".Actually it's a strange work,which cannot be categorized.Apparently a western ,but western afficionados won't be satisfied because the plot is pared to the essential:even the Indians who -hardly- appear are symbolic:the house had to be distroyed anyway -as "Rebecca" 's house as an user cleverly remarked-.This is a perfect example of a faux western (Don Siegel's "beguiled"(1971)is another one).

Some details are intriguing and foretells other stories:outside "the sound of music " (which is -few people know it- a remake of a German movie "die Trapp Familie"(1957) besides),Mitchum's clothes sometimes look like the ones he will wear in "night of the hunter" (1955),the spinet lends a baroque touch as Lilian Gish's piano will do in Huston's "the unforgiven" (1960).

At the beginning of the movie,Young is nothing more than some kind of slave,she is sold as Giuseppina (Giulietta Masina) in Fellini's "la strada" (1954).As for the house,it makes me think of a "little house (in the prairie)" in black and white!

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23/07/2013 05:10 par tellurikwaves

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23/07/2013 05:10 par tellurikwaves

Quietly charming and unpretentious yarn, nicely played...

Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

6 January 2011

RACHEL AND THE STRANGER has the kind of quiet charm that LORETTA YOUNG always possessed and benefits from the more rugged screen presence of its leading men--WILLIAM HOLDEN and ROBERT MITCHUM. Loretta is an indentured servant who becomes the wife of William Holden and must prove herself worthy of the affections of Holden and his young son.

There really is very little in the story that is original and the outcome can be predicted from scene one. It's clear that Loretta, as Holden's second wife, will have a hard time replacing his winsome wife who was a woman of modest talents and dearly loved by husband and son (GARY GRAY). Not unexpectedly, they both warm to her and so does Holden's "stranger" friend, ROBERT MITCHUM, who does a nice job raising his voice in song accompanied by guitar.

Mitchum gives his usual laid back performance, nicely understated. The story may be a little too slow moving for some tastes since it's more of a character study of a widower and his new wife than it is a western.There's no real excitement to the story until the Indian attack which comes late in the story, but the film depends on the central performances of Young, Holden and Mitchum to hold interest as the three of them have some amusing interactions throughout the story.

Nicely photographed in outdoor settings photographed in crisp B&W, it's a film full of simple charm without anything pretentious about it.Only drawback: Overuse of the phrase "I reckon" to give the dialog a bucolic flavor. Its use is way overdone and actually becomes irritating when the script has the phrase repeated every few seconds by everyone in the cast.

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Two Grown Men Fighting Like a Couple of Wild Indians!

Author: wes-connors from Earth

28 August 2007

Loretta Young (she's Rachel) stars as a "bond woman" (white slave) who is sold for $18.00 to William Holden (he's Big Davey). Mr. Holden buys Ms. Young because he feels his son Gary Gray (he's Little Davey) needs a mother to grow up right. Robert Mitchum (he's Big Jim) plays Holden's pal and frequent overnight guest. By the way, Mr. Mitchum is a singing cowboy (and better than you may be thinking). Holden shows no sexual interest in wife Young, but with Mitchum around…

Interesting premise, performed ably by the stars. The stronger scenes, I thought, occurred when several of the four players appeared in scenes with only one other actor For example, Young and Mitchum, Young and Gray, etc. The songs are done well. The drama doesn't really reach full potential, though. It's difficult to accept the exquisitely made-up Hollywood beauty Loretta Young as a 25-year-old slave woman. The script could have been re-written to fix that, and some other points. Some scenes between the principals would have been improved with re-takes.

Young Mr. Gray holds his own among the "Big" stars. He plays very naturally, and lifts the movie considerably. As the film nears its climax, he disappears (it is explained); which makes the film suffer. The ending would have been more exciting with a little boy, and the family element could have been highlighted. There is some excitement in the ending, but it would have been better if more tension was built.

Loretta Young's character says, at one point, "Two grown men fighting like a couple of wild Indians!" that's a good, brief description of the movie.